Tamana

Tamana Special Education Centre caters to the individual needs of differently abled children between the ages of 6-18. The program focuses on over all development of the child depending on needs as well as potential. Functional academics are imparted with parallel intervention with allied therapies depending on the needs of the child. Each student is first assessed by a special educator, psychologist, occupational therapist and speech therapist, post which the child is put into a group according to its chronological age, mental age, and functional level.

Tamana Skill Development Centre, works to ensure a smooth transition from school to the outside world for young adults with special needs to the best of their ability.Students are assessed for ability and interest in learning skills for life. The areas of training are varied and dynamic and are sometimes introduced to suit the needs of particular students. Specific options include Office Skills Training Unit, Computer Skills Training Unit, Home management Unit, basic home management skills, Canteen management including shopping, Paper Recycling Unit, Handicrafts Unit, pottery, sublimation, textile printing, stitching and bakery. We try our hardest to ensure that the students who are able, get gainfully employed and they are also given jobs at Tamana where stipend is being given to them along with on the job training.

Besides the vocational training the curriculum also includes formal education through National Open School, therapies and extra-curricular activities.

Tamana Kindergarten is an early childhood care and education program for children of 2-6 years from economically disadvantaged groups. This initiative integrates typically developing students from economically weaker sections with special needs students in a special school setting.

This project has a twofold mission:

Life enrichment of children from economically weaker sections of the society.
Providing opportunities for peer learning to the special needs students of Tamana.

Tamana was the first institution to recognise autism as a disability distinct from others and to start programs for autistic spectrum disorder in 1985. The Autism Centre is India’s first rehabilitation and research centre for
those on the autism spectrum providing holistic services under one roof – a special school, sensory integration clinic, early intervention centre, diagnostic centre, research cell and an outreach cell.

This centre also offers special education, music, dance, sports, yoga to provide holistic intervention.
In addition, it uses approaches such as TEACCH (Treatment and Education of Autistic and Related Communication Handicapped Children) and ABA (Applied Behavioural Analysis) for intervention and focuses on teaching real-life daily activities, as well as vocational training to the students.

TEACHERS TRAINING CELL was started in the year of 1994 with an aim to develop the best professionals who can work in the field of special education. Tamana has been recognised by the Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) to run the following training courses in Rehabilitation.
D.Ed.Spl.Ed. (Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities)
D.Ed.Spl.Ed. (Hearing Impairment)
D.Ed.Spl.Ed. (Multiple Disabilities)
Diploma In Indian Sign Language Interpretation (D.I.S.L.I.)
Diploma in Early Childhood Special Education (Intellectual Disability)
Diploma in Vocational Rehabilitation (Intellectual Disability)

These Special Education programmes aim to develop professionals for special and inclusive education within a broad perspective of education. The programmes intends to educate and train the aspirants to become agents of change as teaching-professionals by imbibing the required knowledge, skills and positive attitude.

Tamana offers residential training programmes for the differently abled which trains them to be independent to the best of their potential. The facility is equipped with well trained caregivers with who are supporting and monitoring the differently abled individuals with their day to day living under the guidance of the hostel warden.

Apart from the regular individualised program, activities of daily living are taught in real life situations-kitchen, bathroom and dressing room. The students learn to make beds, arrange clothes in cupboards, personal grooming, washing clothes, cooking.

It is like a home away from home for the differently abled where they are nurtured with the same love and care as they would in the safety of their homes.