One of the most challenging aspects of teaching a child with special needs is the realization that this child has come to our centre with a mission which we will be a part of. It is for us to discover this and serve the child in our journey together.
The programs offered by V-Excel Educational Trust are designed to address this. In understanding that education can be healing, we have a variety of things to offer under our umbrella organization. Making every moment of teaching alive and real for the children, different therapies, assessments, support systems such as counseling and psychotherapy, medical services, remedial programs, advocacy for equal rights, full inclusion in society, independent living, self-determination and employment.
We have a team of dedicated, motivated and committed teaching staff, who aim to work with the child as their centre and serve in the best interest of the childs needs.
Our goal is to help families understand and accept their life situation and make the best of it and to overcome obstacles to social access and employment for persons with special needs.
We are a non-profit, non-religious, non-sectarian and non-discriminatory organization based in Chennai, India.
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The Academy of Teacher Excellence (ATE) aims to graduate the best teachers, strive to be more conscientious, dedicated, sensitive, enthusiastic, and motivated. While they learn to tap every child’s potential to the maximum, they too strive to do the same themselves. They become individuals who are awake to the needs of another, and they do this by working on themselves. The Academy offers a year-long Diploma program in Special Education. It also offers short-term courses in various areas of special education and disabilities.
Our school, Kaleidoscope Learning Center (KLC), addresses a wide spectrum of learning and developmental difficulties. We follow the Waldorf curriculum and practice Curative Education. We believe that education can be healing. Teachers, doctors, therapists and parents work together on various aspects of the child’s life. A very special relationship is built between each teacher and child leading to the development of various aspects of the child’s personality. At present, we have five classes – Kindergarten, Grade One, Grade Two A, Grade Two B and Grade Three and two classes in the Pre Vocational Section – Pre Voc A and Pre Voc B. The classes have a group of children with different needs. Each teacher works with his/her class, learning thereby, how to use different strengths of the children to overcome areas of special needs. Teachers usually, move with their group of children from one year to the next, from one class to the next. They curriculum is designed to suit the developmental needs of growing children.
The V-Excel Remedial Center (VRC) is a feeder program for the KLC. It helps students in regular schools cope with the prescribed curriculum. Students are trained to have better study skills and to organize themselves better. They are trained on a one-to-one basis. The center helps widen the horizons of students who are gifted and talented, by conducting periodic workshops on creativity and analytic thinking.
Some children are unable to translate what they read or think into writing as they lack fine motor skills. Our Bridges Learning Academy is for those children who have specific learning disabilities. These include dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, and other related difficulties. When children find the very process of reading, writing or math a big challenge, their school life becomes a nightmare. This division of V-Excel gives them the necessary skills to face school life. Using structured methods of teaching, spelling strategies, decoding and encoding of language, these children are helped to perform better. It also helps slow learners.
Jointly run by V-Excel and ESVI Sarada Foundation, the V-Excel Center for Research and Rehabilitation provides training in sensory integration, vocational services, counselling assessments, workshops for teachers, parents and children and home management for parents. The center caters to infants and children under age 4 who are differently abled. In addition, pre-vocational and vocational training is provided to young adults with developmental disabilities.
There is an exclusive program for the parents of these children. When children are diagnosed with problems, it is the parents who are affected the most. So to “help them help their children”, Disha, a parent support group was formed. Its main objectives are to let parents know that they are not alone, to explore vocational options for the child, to help them become proactive partners in their child’s education program and to understand legal issues about disabilities.
Another program of V-Excel is the implementation of the Indian Government’s initiative called Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) which means “education for all”. We were selected by the Government of Tamil Nadu to implement integrated education for the disabled in rural areas. This program currently covers 9 blocks and about 650 schools.
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Academics Concepts, Inc.,
1403 Merrywood Drive,
Edison, NJ 08817 - India:
V-Excel Educational Trust,
#1 Norton 2nd Street,
Mandaveli, Chennai – 600 028
Tel: (44) 24942255
(44) 24956373
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