There are 32 special children belonging to low income families trained by the school. The school provides academic, vocational, medical and psychological support to the children and their parents. Children are assessed on practical ability and put in three categories



  Mild


  Moderate


  Severe
 
   Drawings from School Children  
   Interface with Community   
   Games and Sports   
   School Schedule   
 


Mildly Retarded

The various activities are :

General Skills Vocational Skills Group Skills
   Reading
   Writing
   Identifying numbers, Colours & Shapes
   Button Sewing
   Drawing
   Making paper envelopes
   Tailoring & Weaving
   Taking care of other children

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Moderately Retarded

   Recognition of letters and numbers
   Counting

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Severely Retarded

   Eye-Hand co-ordination exercise
   Self help activities like eating, grooming and dressing

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Drawings from Gnana Deepam School Children


Drawing - 1 Drawing - 2

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Interface with Community



The school takes pride in its service to the society as it provides the following service to the children and also to the community at large.


  Self help skills and self-hygiene for the children.
  Need based training for every child.
  Motor activities and development.
  Language skills – speech therapy.
  Reading and Writing skills.
  Arithmetic – Time and Money concepts.
  Psycho-social intervention for parents.
  Parental Counselling for handling the children.
  Guidance and Vocational Training.
  Physiotherapy for spastic children.
  Yoga & Medical care by qualified doctors.
  Sports and Physical excellence.

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Games and Sports



All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy Gnana Deepam encourages their children to play games and dance to music so as to achieve holistic development of the children.

The first step to greater success in 1995, when there was no ground to play and practice, the School had sent 3 of their children for special Olympics inter-state competition help at Hyderabad and they have won 1 Gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals in the competition.


Winners in Olympics
Winners in Olympics

This school participated in the inter state special Olympics held at Chandigarh in 1999 and won 5 Gold and 3 Silver Medals.

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The School Schedule



The objective of Gnana Deepam is to impart such training so as to make every child self-reliant and reduce the burden for their parents. To achieve these objective the curriculum ranges from training to eat and dress by themselves and to learn cooking, weaving and tailoring as part of vocational programmes.

The school works from 10.00 am to 3.30 p.m. except on Sundays and Mondays. The school cannot have a formal timetable with time schedule like the normal school. However the children are trained to follow a fairly organised pattern of activities as given below :

Tailoring
Tailoring Skills by Students


 10.00 a.m. to 10.15 a.m.  Prayer
 10.15 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.  Lessons
 12.30 p.m. to 1.00 p.m.  Yoga
 01.30 p.m. to 2.00 p.m.  Rest
 02.00 p.m. to 3.00 p.m.  Vocational Classes / Arts & Crafts
 03.00 p.m. to 3.30 p.m.  Games / Gardening

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