Early intervention :

At Drishti Early Intervention refers to natural observation of any child in a free environment for three consecutive days, 2hrs session. The child is allowed to choose to any task according to his/her free will. This also includes music or art work. These three days the only discipline that is asked of a child is posture at his defined work place and being as quiet as possible. After each session the child is appreciated on the basis of his/her abilities observed atwork. Age appropriate rewards like cake, toy or pencil boxes are used as rewards.

Parent counseling :

Drishti is not only serving the purpose of providing guidelines to individual parents, to effectively work with children at home but also personally looks into their economic, social, environmental, family limitation as well. Often parents have several problems related to daily life which is importantly shared at the counseling room personally, so that communication could be more compassionately handled with parents giving enough room to express their unique real life situations. After having the knowledge considered timings is offered by Drishti as per requirement. Moral support and keeping privacy has been core feature of counseling since ages. Drishti definitely takes care of both.

Behavior modification :

DRISHTI believes in natural law of life. Learning actually happens in life through love and affection with every individual. This works extremely well with challenged kids as experienced by Drishti. The process is simple. Drishti accepts their natural behavior as far as possible during training. Care givers at Drishti try not to disturb the natural ways of the students through use of firm discipline.Drishti believes each child is an artist, respects their ways and gives room for imagination. Children at Drishti thus feel at home during training. IEP that is individual education programme based on child interest is followed at teaching sessions. Children are given freedom regarding choice of activity. Proper balance of love and firm conduct of caregivers are sincerely taken care of during training/teaching sessions to ensure less behavior disorders. Children are always kept busy at Drishti with various interesting tasks. Children mostly tend to misbehave in order to seek attention to fulfill their needs and it happens with many adults like us as well. This is a natural phenomenon. Thus in order to reduce behavior problems its best to keep children involved in constructive activities. Interesting tasks, audio-visuals along with variation in tasks are used to arouse child interest. Children with less ability to express their needs often show behavior problems. When their needs are misinterpreted and frustration level increases problems arise. Thus Drishti takes care of only a handful of children so that much more individual attention to finer needs of children can be taken care of promptly and effectively. Earlier their needs are identified during teaching sessions the better it is. Too many children can’t be humanly looked after at the same time by any care givers effectively. Behavior disorders can be predicted if child is attended to and it can be arresested and diverted through other activities before it occurs.

An educational assessment mainly is helpful for monitoring the areas of learning like:

• Writing
• Counting
• Joininig
• Traceing
• Pointing
• Matching

And various other skills relating to COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT, PERCEPTION, COMMUNICATION, VISUALDISCRIMINATION, MOTOR DEVELOPMENT ETC. AND FOR SURVIVAL EDUCATION (LANGUAGE, MATHS, and G.K.)

Children are given academic education in areas of language, maths, general knowledge throughout the year. Assessments help teachers and parents to understand a student’s gradual progress.

Drishti uses self published work books with pictures along with other aids to teach academics.

Assessment sheets are uniquely designed by Drishti according to individual academic level. No assessment sheets are identical.

Educational evaluation with review :

Like any other schools Drishti believes that challenged kids are not debarred of quarterly evaluation their examination procedure might be pictorial /printed in bold letters according to specific needs but they are capable to go through such examination thrice a year like any other children. Thus Drishti had from the sstart conducted quarterly assessments. The worksheets were send home for parents and they are allowed to be Xerox as well. Guardians are requested to submit them at school office later. The submission aims at cross checking of their monthly improvement. Like any other schools annual assessment takes place at Drishti in a month of March – April every year. It is followed by a detailed Evaluation check list covering specific areas like social, emotional, communication, peer relationship, self help, functional, leisure, class performance, group participation and other extracurricular activities like vocation, creativity, computer, music and art and craft.

Functional training :

DRISHTI delivers functional training utilizing natural life situations effectively for example – during Tiffin – children are taught functional skills more - like opening boxes, wiping plates, arranging bowls, laying and folding napkins, pouring water etc in regular sessions under trained supervision. Adequate prompts both verbal and physical are used for children to develop better speed in acquiring the functional skills. Similarly tours, fairs, exhibitions are annually conducted in order to teach functional skills like bed making, distributing food , wrapping arrangingblankets, bathing, grooming, traveling in vans, laying sheets, effectively handling money etc.

Functional training is essential for life for every human being. These skills are extremely necessary. Functional training allows a child to move independently with reduced assistance and enables the child to independently reach out towards basic needs like toileting; feeding, etc. It also helps parents to rest for a while. Functional training includes Functional literacy as well. There are certain words we all need to read as we walk along the road and public places for life. Example children are trained to sight read, words like DANGER, TOILET, OPEN, CLOSE, EXIT, FIRE, IN, OUT. Functional skills are the pre- skills for self help in future life and also prepare a child for vocational training in later years.

Home based training with programme :

Self Help Unit :