Physical
Medicine and Rehabilitation Centre
Besides
catering to the needs of the children of the
Institute, it also aims to solve health problems
of the local people. It served sensorial impaired
children and adults with physical problems.
This is manned by a specialist. There has been
an appreciable increase in the number of beneficiaries.
Kiranam Health Education is being formed with
eminent doctors, who voluntarily accepted to
serve the disabled around Vanasthalipuram, like
Hayatnagar, Ibrahimpatnam, Turkumjal, Nagole,
Sahebnagar, Peddamberpet, Kohida etc., with
an aim to display the prevocational and vocational
skills and abilities in persons with mental
handicaps to the lay public thereby dispelling
the letters doubts / suspicions on the capabilities
of the persons with mental retardation.
Major
Service Units :
The Major Service Units that the shouldered
the important programmes of the Organization
are as follows:
1. Medico-Social Work.
2. Clinical Psychology.
3. Psychiatry.
4. Speech Therapy.
5. Physio therapy.
6. Special Education.
7. Vocational Training.
The important functions carried out by them
are :
1. Programme implementation as members of multi-disciplinary
team.
2. Participation in various regular and non-regular
programmes of the institute.
3. Home-based extension services.
4. Consultancy and exchange of expertise.
5. Training Programmes / Workshops / Seminars.
Under Medico-Social Work, diagnostic service,
Family Intervention, Parental Counseling, Assessment,
Awareness Camps, Extension services are provided
to a limited number of cases in our locality.
Under Clinical Psychology, follow-up and assessment
behaviour modification and parental counseling
are taken up. Following are the cases examined
under Speech Pathology therapy :
Speech Therapy :
1. Diagnostic Assessment 10
2. Individual Speech Therapy 120
3. Follow-up Cases 45
4. Parental Counseling 30
5. Awareness Camp 03
Physio
Therapy :
1. Diagnostic Assessment 10
2. Assessment and Guidance 03
3. Individual therapy 276
-Weekly Case Conferences
-IEP (Individual Education Programme) meetings
held thrice a year
Rehabilitation
Services from 1998
