LD.Learning Disability?

NO!Learning Differently!!!

CHILDREN OF THE GOLDEN SUNSankalp- The Open School

What Did We Change?

Peoples’ outlook towards persons with Learning

Disability.19th September to 25th September 2010

FEELWe had to go through HUMILIATION,

discrimination, PREJUDICE, LONELINESS while trying to deal with our own

DIFFICULTIES.It is an attempt by us to spread awareness

about LD and share our experience.So that another child will not

have to go through what we had to.

IMAGINEHow to reach across to

people?•We needed to know how we feel?•Read about Learning Disability to understand why we are different?•Decided to go and meet different

people and tell them about LD and share our experience -Children, parents, teachers,

people around us.•Use Internet to spread the

message.

Getting ready to bring the change and be changed

All the students joined together to prepare and worked on the charts, placards, PowerPoint presentation, fliers etc .

DOWith a presentation about LD and lot of courage to face the people we started our campaign to make people sensitive

to needs and feelings of children like US.First stop-

Addressed the Sunday school students, teachers and Parents of these children.

An attentive audience

The Campaign Continued•Day 2- had a presentation for parents of

students of ABC play school.

•Day 3- team of students along with teachers interacted with parents and distributed fliers

outside few main stream schools in our neighbourhood.

•Day 4- the team of students visited Faith International School and addressed their team of

teachers.

•Day 5- we had parents of children from different main stream schools visiting our school for a

presentation.•We sent our power point presentation to our teachers, students and friends of our school, requesting them to

forward it to their friends.(We are sure it is going around the world)

•Day 6- the whole school participated by forming a Human Chain on 6th Avenue Annanagar . Fliers

were distributed to people passing by.

•Day 7- had a group of parents from Dr. Balaji’s occupational therapy clinic coming to school for

a presentation.

These feedbacks are a source of encouragement for us: TEACHERS

Parents and Youngsters:

HOW DID WE GET CHANGED?• All the discussions and sharing of experiences

helped us to understand our self better.• It gave us an insight to tackle our own issues in a

better manner.• Talking about our experiences helped us to get over

negative feelings. It made us feel relaxed and confident. We got rid of old baggage.

• The responses especially from teachers and parents of children with special needs gave us a sense of satisfaction. It gives us hope that young children with special needs will get support and help from parents and teachers.

The Team

V. Vivek S. VigneshVasantha Shruthi B V. Vinodhini T. A. Ashwin(Students and staff of Sankalp)

Mentor Teacher Sara James

(Special thanks to R Karthikeyan for all the help especially technical support, Ms. Jaya Indrajit for all the support and encouragement.)