We have had 93% success rate offering Auditory Integration training and Sensory Scoptic Syndrome screening to both special and dyslexic students and adults in normal work situations.
Being ISO 9000-2001 certified has put in systems to keep up standards for efficiency and effectiveness. This commits us to continual improvement.
Ever since its inception, over 35 years ago, the S. P. J. Sadhana School has worked ceaselessly toward helping the mentally challenged individual, not only to learn to adjust to the world around, but more - to become a useful member of the human community, independent and self sufficient, with a contribution to make to society.
A highly trained team of teachers and professionally qualified therapists each of whom has hands on experience in the field, look at other aspects of mental retardation, such as the benefits of nurturing the special talents each individual manifests and encouraging the student to work on them. For it has been found that given what they like doing, they perform well. Arising out of such challenges, special teaching strategies and unorthodox technologies are developed and are constantly reviewed and upgraded. The goal is to transfer as much learning as possible, to make the learning process enjoyable to moulding it to the individual student’s needs and to elicit the maximum satisfaction from it, both to the teacher and the taught. Years of such experience have crystallized into a five-year vocational course, which, while tapping a trainee’s special gift and fostering it, aims to equip that student to be launched into a self-reliant and productive life. The course covers training in art and crafts, such as stencil and airbrush painting and designing, tailoring and stitch craft. Three-dimensional skills include clay modeling. Other trainings imparted are Catering and Hospitality, and office skills and General Vocational Skills. Concurrently, during these years of training, equal stress is laid upon employment criteria - correct behaviour in work situation, communication and self-help skills. All this is towards the end of placing the student in a compatible work situation.
It has had many first to its credit : (click here)
- Intensive therapy for the severely disabled autistic child.
- Makaton - a language project that it helped introduce in all schools in the city/country.
- Projecting mentally handicapped artists as artists in their own rights, by having Exhibitions-cum-Sale of their works.
- We take our students as tourists all over the country to create awareness and to teach them skills they can’t learn otherwise.
- Sensory integration therapy.
- Auditory retraining
- S.S.S. Screening (Sensory Scoptic Syndrome)
- The F.A.C.E. Programme to fade out autism and hence enable autistic persons to be included as productive members in-group situations.
- A Fashion Show ‘98 “Awakening” the city to the giftedness of the arts students, under designer Hemant Trevedi.
- Mauj Masti ‘99 - showcasing the skills of the Fast Food Catering Unit. Rashmi Uday Singh edited a booklet “Sunshine” recipes - favourite recipes of the student.
- The intensive sports programme has won us the first in India gold, silver and bronze at the International Special Olympics 1985 and in 1999 we won 2 gold, silver and 2 bronze medals.
- Winners in the IFB Star Plus Sunday Lunch Competition - an open competition.
- Graduation every 5 years - 1995, 2000, 2005 of students into the work world. 1036 are already integrated in the larger work world.
- “New Paradigm” - a documentary by Aruna Raje Patil on the innovative methods of training in the year 2000 and “Breaking Barriers” in 2005 aimed at Industry.
- “Friendship Ka Funda”, showcasing the song and dance skills of our students in the year 2001. The theme song has been composed and sung by Sudhanshu Srivastava, which was a first audio cassette by a mentally challenged student.
- Brain Gym - June 2002.
- “Vote for Jhakaas Party” - a musical political satire to be staged by all the children on 31st August 2002.
- I.E. Feurenstein Method introduced in the school.
- Music Therapy
- Im Possible a fashion event made possible by Designer Hemant Trevedi in collaboration with the staff & students of our Visual Arts.
- A five year programme on alternative therapies i.e. laughing therapy, yoga, Kriya, Om (KEY-OM Project) presented at the 9th Biennial Conference in Special Education, at Halifax, Canada in July 2005 was received with awe.
- Dr. Radhiké Khanna presented 20 years of the FACE Programme at the First Regional Conference on Autism, held at Lahore, Pakistan.
- Presented Papers at Hong Kong in 2005 on “ Training Cognitively disabled for Productive Adulthood in the Hospitality Industry” and “ Placement Potential of the Hospitality Industry for the Cognitively Disabled” .
- Because …. I am - a fashion show event in March 2009 under the direction of Designer Mr. Hemant Trevedi with the assistance and participation of the staff and student of our Visual Arts.
