Why Out Reach?

It is right of every child to enjoy the process of learning. Deficits in learning skills hinder this delay in identifying the deficits and lack of resources in providing appropriate academic support to these children are the major concerns of parents.

- If you are a parent residing outside Coimbatore who is in need of Remedial Programme
- If your town has no place to offer Remedial help
- If you are one who silently bears the pain of your child’s struggle to cope with learning problems
- If you are one who needs the help of an expert but the social stigma holds back
- If you are one who knows the child has a difficulty, but due to family situations and family pressure, not able to help the child

We offer Individual Educational -Remedial programme for the child during week both individual and group programmes ends we offer support programme to the parent to help the child meet the day to day needs of academics. If your child needs Occupational Therapy we provide week end programme and programmes to be followed at home. At regular intervals academic and therapy based evaluation is done

Internship for Professionals

Students who are doing MSW and Specialising in Medical & Psychiatric Social Work in different colleges in CBE regularly come for field placement to Rashmika. This is an area where they get a live experience of how learning happens in children with specific learning needs.

 

Workshops, Seminars and Awareness programme on Dyslexia, specific learning needs and informal assessments, counseling programmes.

For the attention of the Teachers: For the Main stream Teachers

If you are a teacher who gets baffled (bewildered) by the following situations

»Why do some students do well in class one day and inadequately the next day?

»Why is it that some students perform poorly inspite of being intelligent?

»Why is it that some students do well in some subjects during exams and fail in the very same subject next time?

»Why is it that some can’t read?

»Why are some orally good yet unable to put answers on paper?

»Why is it that some are inattentive in the class?

»Why is it that some are very fidgety troublesome and tend to squirm in their seats?

»Why is it that some students hate some subjects?

»Is it that I am ineffective?

»Why is it that I am not able to reach out to some?

If these are your queries and want to help these children,
Contact us for weekend training programmes and placement programmes

• Vocational Training is a kind of training or tuitions for a specific vocation. It helps a person to acquire special skills that are necessary to pursue the specific vocation.
• Vocational Training focuses on practical skills that students can put to use in a chosen vocation.
• Slow learners benefit from this programme

Goals of Vocational Training

• 1. prepare children to choose a specific Vocation
• 2. To help a child to be independent and self-reliant
• 3. To help the child develop competency in life
• 4. To boost the child’s morale and self confidence
• 5. To be a productive member of society.

Vocational Activities available in Rashmika:

• 1. Art and Craft
• 2. Cover Making
• 3. Jewellery Making
• 4. Flower Making
• 5. Pot Painting

• 6. Soft Toys Making
• 7. Greeting Card
• 8. Quilling
• 9. Dupache

Computer Programmes(children with basic literacy skills)

• 1. DTP
• 2. Tally
• 3. MS Office

How do we go about it

-The Occupational Therapists assess to identify the prevocational skill which is required for him/her to do a vocational training programe.

For eg: If a child has to learn cover making:

• a) Prevocational skills needed are
• 1. Fine motor skills
• 2. Eye hand coordination
• 3. Folding
• 4. Drawing lines
• 5. Sitting tolerance

• b) Vocational Skills needed are
• 1. Task analysis
• 2. Cuttting Paper to correct measurement
• 3. Folding
• 4. Sticking

For eg: If a child has to learn Tailoring:

• a) Prevocational skills needed are
• 1. Fine Motor Skills
• 2. Eye hand Coordination
• 3. Alterative movement of legs
• 4. Sitting tolerance

• b) Vocational Skills needed are
• 1. Task analysis
• 2. Marking the design on papermodel
• 3. Cutting
• 4. Sketching

What is Occupational Therapy?

Occupational Therapy (OT) is a health care profession which deals with a person’s ability to perform his/her daily routine activities. It includes self-care, productivity and leisure activities.

Goal of OT:

The goal of OT is three dimensional. To improve. To restore. To maintain or prevent deterioration of skills.

What does a Therapist do in Rashmika?

The Therapist plays a major role in helping teachers and parents to set realistic and achievable goals, concerning discrepancies between and students performance in school and the expectation of parents and teachers. The Therapist gives: • Direct Individual Therapy • Direct Group Therapy • Practical Guidance for the students in classroom setup • Collaborate with teachers to understand the student’s performance , challenges and set up the right environment for learning to happen.

When is a child referred to Occupational Therapy in Rashmika?

• When the child has difficulty in
• 1. Communication skills
• 2. Organisational skills
• 3. Visual motor skills
• 4. Visual perceptual skills (in reading, writing)

When the child has Organisational difficulty in:
• 1. Getting ready on his own to do a task
• 2. Difficulty in finding space for himself / herself.
• 3. Difficulty with directions (esp. right and left).
• 4. Is confused about his / her own left & right hand dominance (when he is forced from left to right)

• When the child has difficulties in:
• 1. Doing up Zippers and buttons
• 2. Managing scissors
• 3. Handling a ruler
• 4. Erasing
• 5. Writing
• 6. Handling equipment’s in science lab
• 7. Handling practical geometry
• 8. Drawing diagrams
• 9. Doing map work
• 10. Participating in games and sports
• 11. Cycling and leisure activities.

• When the child has difficulty in writing readiness skills and written productivity.
• When he has no attention to lines and designs.
• When he has poor pencil grip.
• When he has gross and fine motor clumsiness.
• The child requires the following pre-requisites for handwriting skills:
• 1. Hand dominance
• 2. Pencil grasp
• 3. Paper position
• 4. Turning the page
• 5. Pencil pressure
• 6. Pencil pressure
• 7. Erasing

• When does the child exhibit difficulty in the legibility of Hand Writing?
• 1. When the child does not sit in a proper posture.
• 2. Finds difficulty in visual tracking and neck movement.
• 3. Time constraints
• 4. Space concept
• 5. Shape concept
• 6. Directionality
• 7. Sitting tolerance.

• How do we go about with the therapeutic programme?
• The therapeutic programme starts with with the initial assessments like
• 1. Parental Interview
• 2. Standardized learning disability assessment scale.
• 3. Based on the assessment an individual therapeutic programme is charted (No of sessions is need based)