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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, Turkamjal, 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
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