About Us
We are professionals in Bhimavaram Town in West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India. We have been providing services to Intellectual Disabled or Mentally Challenged or Mentally Handicapped since 1994. We are running this organization with all trained professionals, special teachers, speech therapists, physiotherapists and vocational instructors. Our motto is to minimize dependency on the intellectually disabled and make them involved in useful trades like tailoring, gardening, cooking etc.
Services
We are offering professional services to intellectual disabled since 1994. Identifying special needs of intellectual disabled, planning individual rehabilitation or training program, providing special education according to their need based. Speech intervention, behavior modification, Physio therapy etc. We also providing services to autism (ADHD, PDD).
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What is Intellectual Disability?
Intellectual disability is a term used when a person has certain limitations in mental functioning and in skills such as communicating, taking care of him or herself, and social skills. These limitations will cause a child to learn and develop more slowly than a typical child.
Children with intellectual disabilities (sometimes called cognitive disabilities or, previously, mental retardation, mentally challenged and mentally handicapped etc.) may take longer to learn to speak, walk, and take care of their personal needs such as dressing, grooming and eating. They are likely to have trouble learning in normal school. They will learn, but it will take them longer. There may be certain things that they cannot learn. They are poor at cognitive skills (thinking, reasoning and judgement) and social skills.
What are the Signs of Intellectual Disability?
There are many signs of an intellectual disability. For example, children with an intellectual disability may:
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sit up, crawl, or walk later than other children;
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learn to talk later, or have trouble speaking,
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find it hard to remember things,
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not understand how to pay for things,
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have trouble understanding social rules,
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have trouble seeing the consequences of their actions,
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have trouble solving problems, and/or
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have trouble thinking logically.
Activities
Surveys
Initially, we conducted surveys with specially trained staff to identify intellectually disabled in and around our area at the same time we dissipate knowledge about intellectual disabilities and provide counselling at the home level.
Special Education
It is completely different from normal education, so, we may say it is special education which is applied by specially trained teachers, who are well trained in all aspects such as speech intervention, physio therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, behavior modification, and counselling etc.
Introduction
what is a special education? Who need it ? These are question may arise. The special education is need for Intellectual Disabled to teach and train them with special educational techniques for those who require special needs. Generally we can recognize such type of children through some observations such as….
· We call a person by his name within 2 to 3 feet distance but the person not responds.
· The person may not give answers to your question correctly or may give irrelevant answers.
· The person may not concentrate on topics or lessons.
· The person may not able to perform the activities of daily living such as brushing, combing, dressing, toileting , bathing, and eating etc.
· May not perform general or simple tasks when compare to others of same age level group.
· Forget the learn tasks very frequently even though we teach it many times and do the same task repeatedly.
· Taking very long time to learn a task when compare to others.
· Unable to concentrate on etc.
Special Education is the individually planned and systematically monitored arrangement of teaching procedures, adapted equipment and materials, accessible settings, and other interventions designed to help learners with special needs achieve the greatest possible personal self-sufficiency and success in school and community.
"Here is a trainee gets training in Functional Reading which involves eye hand coordination, concentration and shape concept.
Speech Intervention
These children have communication problems. They cannot express or share their feelings normally. Their verbal and non-verbal communication is poor, and one may not understand them. In speech intervention with special education techniques, we identify his entry-level and plan according to their stage of communication.
Behavior Modification
Generally when we called a behavior is problematic?
* A behavior which disturbs others
* A behavior which disturbs the environment
* A behavior which interferes in his learning process
Behavior problems are genetic and not generated by birth. These are adopted by natural situation in his environment, and gradually increased or decreased by its stimulated situations. No body in this nature behaves neither good or bad all are adopted by responses of stimuli.
Early Intervention
Early identification of problems of child and start early intervention is always best to help the child to grow both intellectually and physically.
History
We started our service center with two employees in 1994, working out of a small room. Some years later, we appointed over 10 professionals to serve intellectual disabled in and around Bhimavaram town. Now we providing our services to all needy people not only at institutional level, but also field level to educate parents of ID, and gave home management training, and counselling family members as well neighboring people.
Award NGO or Arunodaya Manovikasa Kendram has been offering its Teaching and Training services since 1994 (25 years of service completed at the year 2020) to the mentally challenged through its professionals for improving life of mentally challenged and helps in learning sustainable life skills. Award approaches continuously maintaining its professional relationship with NIMH and RCI, which are professionalized institutions and helps in providing latest knowledge and achievements for us.
About its Founder:
Smt. I Aruna Devi is the founder of the organization. She won awards many times for her best service. She is very much involved in serving the mentally challenged since 1994. Besides helping mentally challenged, she also shows her compassion to another category of handicapped and helps some of them by proving mid day meals, procuring machinery and materials for self employment vice versa. When she observed some poor and old destitute people, she moved deeply and tries to provide midday meals and medicines at least some persons among them. She also approached providing midday meals to Trainees.
She got Best Organization award by Nehru Yuva Kendra.
Best Teacher Award to our director by Mr.Vegesna.Ranga Raju, on the occasion of Teacher’s day
On World Women's Day our school Director I.Aruna Devi was felicitated by Thota Sita Maha Lakshmi (M.P.)
Servicing Area:
We Covers 2 towns and 14 villages within Kalla Mandal consist of 2.26 lakhs (2011) of population. The following are villages and towns which we are covering, 1.Bhimavaram Town 2.Anakoderu, 3.Annavaram, 4.Bethapudi, 5.Chinamiram, 6.Dirusumarru, 7.Komarada, 8.Kovvada, 9.Losarigutlapadu, 10.Narasimhapuram, 11.Rayalam, 12.Taderu, 13.Tundurru, 14.Vempa and 15.Yenamadurru 16.Gollavani Tippa 17.Ramayana Puram.
Objectives Award NGO has the following objectives:
Create awareness in the families about mental retardation.
Create awareness in general public.
Providing maximum available service to mentally challenged.
Providing Special Educational training to mentally challenged
Optimum training in Vocational trades for achieving rehabilitation for mentally challenged.
Domestic ability development for women trainees to minimize their dependency at their home.
To provide hostel service to trainees from distant places in near future.
To protect human rights of mentally challenged.
Contact Us
Award NGO
(ARUNODAYA MANOVIKASA KENDRAM),
PEDAMIRAM - 534204, Kalla Mandal
West Godavari District,
Andhra Pradesh
Email: arunodaya1998@gmail.com
Cell No: 9848955766
Annual Reports
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Arunodaya Annual Report 2018.pdf Size : 1550.477 Kb Type : pdf |
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