Psycho-Educational Assessment
It consists of an assessment of psychological aspects of learning and of academic skills.
Psychological aspects include:
- Intelligence
- Language skills
- Memory
- Verbal and visual learning
- Attention/concentration
- Eye-hand coordination for paper-and-pencil tasks
- Planning ability
- Reflective/impulsive response style
Academic skills include:
- Reading (phonetic skills, sight vocabulary, reading comprehension),
- Spelling
- Writing
- Mathematics (basic numerical operations, mathematical reasoning),
- Academic fluency (speed of reading, writing, calculating)
- Listening comprehension
- Oral expressive skills
Psychological Counseling and Guidance
In our Psychological Counseling and Guidance Department, guidance and counseling programs are developed and implemented appropriate for the developmental needs of our students. The programs are prepared by taking into consideration the properties of the stages through which each individual will pass in the maturation process.
Counselors work with all the students, not only the ones who have problems. Works, conducted in Guidance and Counseling Department are aimed at developing basic social skills of the students and letting them acquire self-confidence and problem-solving skills. Also, our students are assisted in determining and actualizing their personal objectives and they are guided in decision-making process for their future. Via the explanation of effective time management and study skills, academic development of our students is supported.
Student-Based Programs
- Orientation programs
- Student recognition programs/activities
- Student guidance programs/activities
- Academic achievement improvement programs/activities
- Psychological counseling
- Individual counseling
- Group counseling
- Conferences and social activities
- Vocational and career counseling
- Individualized education programs for the groups with different learning characteristics.
Teacher-Based Programs
- Orientation programs
- Homeroom teacher programs
- Consultation/Counseling
- In-service training programs
Parent-Based Programs
- Parent recognition programs/activities
- Consultation/Counseling
- Conferences and social activities
- School system introduction programs
- Conferences about student development
- Parents skills training programs
- Information giving via bulletins
- Cooperation with School Parent Association
Educational Therapy
Educational Therapy is a form of therapy used to treat individuals with learning differences, disabilities, and challenges. This form of therapy offers a wide range of intensive interventions that are designed to remediate learning problems. These interventions are individualized and unique to the specific learner.
This type of therapy helps the student strengthen the ability to learn. The student engages in activities that help academics as well as teach processing, focusing, and memory skills. The difference between traditional tutoring and educational therapy is dramatic. Educational therapy demystifies learning problems and stimulates clients’ awareness of their strengths so they can use those strengths to best advantage to overcome or compensate for areas of weakness.
Processing is the way students think and learn. All students learn differently and process information in a unique manner. Information is taken in through the five senses. Some students learn better by watching (visual learning) while others learn better by hearing (auditory learning). The students who seem to do worse in the traditional school setting learn best by doing (kinesthetic learning). If these students are taught to strengthen their weakest learning systems, then learning becomes easier and more efficient.
Educational therapy addresses the underlying learning skills that affect academics. These skills would include visual and auditory processing, attention, and focusing as well as memory skills. The student only receives the skills that he/she is weak in. Each student is different and has unique strengths and weaknesses. Therefore, educational therapy is best equipped to deal with helping students with learning differences reach their highest potential.
Behavioural Therapy
Behavioural therapy is a broad term referring to psychotherapy, behavior analytical, or a combination of the two therapies. In its broadest sense, the methods focus on either just behaviors or in combination with thoughts and feelings that might be causing them.
Behavioral therapy is a treatment that helps change potentially self-destructing behaviors. It is also called behavioural modification or cognitive behavioural therapy. The therapy also helps you cope with difficult situations. It is most often used to treat anxiety disorders.
It is usually used to help treat anxiety and mood disorders. This treatment can help patients cope with certain mental disorders. It can also be used to treat:
- Autism
- Personality disorders
- Substance abuse
- Eating disorders
Behavioral therapy is used by psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and other qualified medical professionals. It is usually used to help treat anxiety and mood disorders. These include:
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Depression
- Social phobia
- Bipolar disorder
- Schizophrenia
Pre-vocational Training
Work is an essential part of life of a person because it gives him status and binds him to society. Just as normal adults work to earn their livelihood, differently able or disabled individuals also have the potential to work and earn if they are provided with the necessary training. Acceptance of these persons at work ,means that they are accepted without discrimination.
Successful performance at work makes a disabled person self-confident. The prevocational skills are related to a variety of vocations that a student may pursue later in life. The pre-vocational work are tasks that prepare them for the world of work they will enter someday.
In Mumbai there are very few pre-vocational Centers which caters to Autistic children after 16 years of age. Umang is one of them . Umang is teaching them the skills which will help these children to develop an aptitude for certain kinds of job later. Pre-vocational skills teaches them the right attitude needed to enter and stay in the workplace. Most of the students at Umang are Autistic students and many of them are not at the functioning level of works on academics all day. Thus they are taught skills which will help them pursue a vocation of their choice. It is observed that they master an activity very quickly. One of the goals of Umang is to help our students function as independently as possible.
These skills refer to the child’s ability to interact with others ,to cope with new or difficult situations & to manage his or her behaviours in socially appropriate ways. Social Skills influence the childs ability to establish friendships & others social relationships. Examples, to builds a child’s social skills, the occupational therapist may often engage the child in group therapy.
Aptitude Test
An Aptitude test is a test basically designed to determine a child’s ability in a particular skill or field of knowledge. It is a test designed to determine a person’s ability in a particular skill or field of knowledge.
It is an assessment which is done over a wide area which consists a no of tests
- Numerical Tests
- Verbal Tests
- Language/Literacy Skills Tests
- Deductive Reasoning Tests
- Abstract Reasoning Tests
- Inductive Reasoning
- Technical Tests
- Diagrammatic Reasoning
- Spatial Reasoning
- Mechanical/Electrical Reasoning
- Error Checking
- Concentration Tests
Career Guidance
Career guidance is a broad term which often involves assisting students and adults who are trying to choose a career. Career counseling or career guidance includes a wide variety of professional activities which help people deal with career-related challenges. Career guidance consists of the services that help people successfully manage their career development.Career development professionals may administer self assessment instruments or teach their clients how to use self-administered tools, to help them learn about their interests, values, skills and personality type. They can educate individuals about how to explore occupations that are most suitable based on that information and then ultimately teach them how to decide which one is the best choice.
Career Guidance is a suggestion technique which can be also based on the aptitude report of a child. Both the aptitude testing and the career guidance are often very closely related. The focus of career counseling is generally on issues such as career exploration, career change, personal career development and other career related issues. It is generally done in the adolescent stage or not before the child comes in the higher secondary standards.
Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapy (OT) is the use of assessment and treatment to develop, recover, or maintain the daily living and work skills of people with a physical, mental, or cognitive disorder. Occupational therapists also focus much of their work on identifying and eliminating environmental barriers to independence and participation in daily activities.[1] Occupational therapy is a client-centered practice that places emphasis on the progress towards the client’s goals.
Occupational therapy services typically include:
- an individualized evaluation, during which the client/family and occupational therapist determine the person’s goals,
- customized intervention to improve the person’s ability to perform daily activities and reach the goals, and
- an outcomes evaluation to ensure that the goals are being met and/or make changes to the intervention plan.
It focuses on helping people to achieve independence in all areas of life. Occupational therapy interventions focus on adapting the environment, modifying the task, teaching the skill, and educating the client/family in order to increase participation in and performance of daily activities, particularly those that are meaningful to the client.
Speech Therapy
Speech & Laungage therapy is the process of enabling people to communicate to the best of the ability. Communication involves listening, speaking, reading & writing. Some people use signed Language, communication aids or other methods to communicate.
Communication problems may results from :
- Autism
- Delayed language development
- Head injury
- Hearing loss
- Physical disabilities such as Cerebral Palsy
Diet Planning
Meal planning or diet planning can be defined as taking the time to plan nutritious meals and snacks for a specified time period. Once a meal plan is drawn up, corresponding ingredients can be purchased for the specified meals on the plan.
Library Services – activity oriented reading
We at Umang rightfully adhere by this saying as we have a full flegded library for the Parents as well as Teachers. Our library has more than 100 books related to the Autism , Hyperactivity and Cerebral Palsy . It has a wide range of topics including books on Autism,Cerebral Palsy Aspergers, Down Syndrome and mental retardation.
Therapies
Special School and Rehabilitation Center
- Assessment and Diagnosis
- Early Intervention
- Guidance and Referrals
- Special Education
- Activities of Daily Living (ADL)
- Speech and Communication Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)
- Counseling and Behavior management
- Play Therapy
- Remedial Education
- Pre-vocational Training
- Services to outstation children and families
- Speech Therapy/Occupational Therapy/Educational Assessment
Social Skills Training