Holistic Education System
“What they learn, they become”
Specialized therapeutic &
speech-language solutions
Five full-time speech-language pathologists (SLPs), along with special education faculty, work to develop, reading, writing, and verbal communication skills along with pragmatic language, metacognitive processing, and social skills. Instructors use specialized methodology such as the multi-sensory Orton-Gillingham Approach, considered the gold standard for teaching reading to students with dyslexia.
Staff Development & Training
Santhi Sadanam Institute of Rehabilitation and Advanced Studies (SIRAS) is a futuristic approach towards advancement in the field of education and rehabilitation of children with intellectual disability. SIRAS is designed to share the knowledge and extend methodology on a local, national and international level.
Our Training Centre educates parents, professional educators, therapists, medical and mental health professionals, administrators, superintendents and professors.
Under SIRAS, Special Education Training has 4 aspects
1. Therapeutic aspect
2. Teachers training and research aspect
3. Medical aspect
4. Parental counselling and psychological aspect
1. Therapy
Various therapeutic services can improve a person’s adaptive behavioral skills. These therapies are helpful for many people with intellectual disabilities.
2. Teachers Training and Research Institute
Research at SIRAS is grounded in a social model of disability. Staff at the centre undertakes applied research intending to make a positive difference to the lives of disabled children, with a special interest in people with learning (intellectual) disabilities and their families.
Both quantitative and qualitative methods are used in our research, and our projects are conducted as inclusively as possible, with staff actively striving to seek the involvement of disabled people and creating conditions to allow their maximum contribution in the research process.
3. Medical Team
The medical and clinical support team consists of highly experienced, dedicated, and qualified nursing administrators, registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, social workers, counsellors and clinical psychologists — who continuously assess the medical, psychiatric and psychological needs of our students.
4. Parental counselling and psychological support
Child disability is leading cause of Anxiety and depression in parents. If counselling of these parents is done they will be able to face these challenges and it will help them to cope. Cognitive behavioural counselling will help to change the negative emotions, thoughts, and behaviour.
Parents have a physical and psychological distress related to caring for their children, thus affecting their quality of life. It will also help them to learn different coping strategies through which they deal the situation effectively. Thus it will help to make their as well as child’s quality of life.
Specialized Therapeutic Solutions
Various therapeutic services can improve a person’s adaptive behavioral skills. These therapies are helpful for many people with intellectual disabilities
• Occupational therapy
• Speech therapy
• Physical therapy
• Ortho molecular therapy
• Talk therapy
• Medication
Flexible, tiered, academic scheduling and skill development
Students also benefit from the flexibility of a multi-tiered academic program in which they advance at their own pace as they gain mastery of each subject.
There are three tiers: Remedial Classes for math, reading, and writing; Modified Classes, which serve as a bridge between remedial and standard tiers and include math, reading, writing and core classes; and Standard Courses for students working at grade level. Instructors of these classes are certified in each class’s content area and work with students to meet state standards and develop academic competencies that will prepare them for college expectations and the adult world.
Curriculum tiers are fluid — students may shift between them depending on their mastery level.
For example, one student may be scheduled for remedial reading, modified writing, and social studies, along with standard math and science classes.
Santhi Sandanam
Address
Purakkad,Payyoli, Payyoli, India, 673522