A learning experience
AMIT SHARMA
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The workshop focused on the prevention of learning disorders.
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It was in the fitness of things that the first school in Delhi to start a Sensory Integration Centre should play host to the recent three-day international workshop on Sensory Integration and Neurodevelopment treatment.
Sponsored by the Social Welfare Department and Government of NCT, Delhi, it was held at the Delhi Police Public School in association with Ergo Medicine Research Academy.
Help out
The school has been identifying and helping students with learning disabilities.
The workshop updated paediatricians, school principals, teachers, counsellors, special educators, psychologists and parents on Sensory Integration Dysfunction, early intervention and therapy. Inaugurating the workshop, Nagar, chairman of Paras group of hospitals, said, "this will definitely benefit educators and therapists". The president of Society of Sensory Integration and Child Development, V.S. Bole, launched a book on the occasion which was dedicated to her husband, the late Suryakant Bole.
She gave a presentation about few cases at her clinic and the positive effects of the therapy at an early stage.
Early diagnosis
The director of Mother and Child Centre at Paras Hospital, Sen Gupta, discouraged the idea of arranging special classes for the affected children or treating them differently from normal kids.
Erna Blanche, an occupational therapist at the University of Southern California elaborated on the Sensory Integration theory with the presentation of case studies and emphasised the need for early screening and intervention.Separate sessions were held for therapists and teachers on identification of Sensory Integration disorders, intervention and management for the prevention of learning disorders.
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