Ashraya Centre for Learning
Ashraya is a special needs education school catering to children with intellectual and associated challenges such as speech impairment, ADHD, mild autism and other motor disability and other physical challenges in the age group of 4 to 18 years. The school is located at HBR Layout near Kammanahalli. Currently there are around 50 students on the rolls of the school . The school has seven groups of children according to age and disability.
ENSURING NO CHILD IS LEFT BEHIND
The students come from surrounding areas of HBR Layout, Govindpura, Nagavara, Kammanahalli, Baiyappanahalli, Coxtown and Jeevanahalli. Their parents are typically small business owners like petty shop owners, push cart vegetable vendors and plastic vessels sellers, saloon workers, office security personnel, plumbers, tailors, and Electricians. Others work in small scale industries and their annual incomes are typically in the range of Rs 40000 to Rs100000.
The school curriculum focuses on imparting education in instrumental activities of daily life, functional academics, and social interaction skills while conducting regular physiotherapy and neurotherapy sessions. We also focus on motor skills, self help skills, language and communication skills, domestic work skills training, community orientation and pre-vocational skills. Extra-curricular activities such as dance, drama, music, singing, arts and crafts activities, yoga and physical exercises are included in the school programme.
"Over the past ten years she has learned to wash her own clothes and manage her studies on her own. What do we say but that she is a gift from God"
Sister of a student at Ashraya Centre for Learning
POSITIVELY CHANGING THE LIVES OF THE CHILDREN
The students participate in inter-special school cultural and arts and sports competitions, and regularly win medals, trophies and certificates. Customised individual education programmes help the children develop holistically. Periodical evaluations help check the improvement made by the children. Regular attendance helps in the overall improvement of the child and is insisted upon.
Lunch scheme: Ashraya provides nutritious daily lunch for the students. On important occasions, like birthdays well wishers sponsor special meals and sweets to children. During meals students are taught table manners, eating skills, and are also taught to say a word of prayer before having the food.
The occasion is used to impart fine motor, eye and hand coordination skills under the supervision of teachers and helpers. Senior children assist in clearing the tables and plates and cleaning the dining hall.
The school programme and continuing home-based programmes over a period of time have helped achieve remarkable changes in the children making them more productive, active, and social in society.