Designer – Yuvaan is an energetic and a happy 5+ year old child studying in grade 1. • He loves his academics, coloring, computers, maths, reading books and writing stories. • He loves visiting new places, and leisure activities like swimming, running and playing • He’s amongst the top rankers in Genius Cerebrum International Olympiads of all the subjects. • He has bagged number of awards, certificates and medals in academics, sports and co-cirruclar activities. • He is a self learner.
Artist PRANJAL MISHRA
Pranjal Mishra is a Graduate in Sociology from IGNOU, is well versed with MS Office and does data entry in Excel. He likes to sing songs and play music on the keyboard. He has recently won the 1st prize in the Online Adyatma Talent Contest 2022 for playing his keyboard. He has also interned at Saamarthya foundation and AMBA for Life. This year i.e. in 2023, Pranjal made a calendar from his digital art which was launched at the Vizag Steel Plant New Year function. You can reach out to him at mishrapranjal2409@gmail.com
1. Artist – Name : Prriyam Banerjii Titleof the Artwork: Beautiful Nature
Name: Prriyam Banerjii Age: 14 City: Greater Noida Disability: Mild ASD Studies in class 8 Interest: Music and Art
He is very playful, loving boy. He loves to paint with water colours oil pastel colours. He also likes to cook. Last year he got certificate for drawing from UNESCO
Artwork by Prriyam Banerjii
2. Artist: Prajakta Dey
Title – Disconnect mind.
Description – in this artwork the confused and puzzled mind of the child is asking for help. Her unheard voice is please help me to get the connection with this world.She wants to say, let me bloom and enjoy the colours of life.
Specification – Done with using sketch pen and colour pencils.
Artwork by Prajakta Dey
Prajakta (Ridhi)12+ is a child on ASD.Her vocabulary and language skills are very limited.She is need based verbal and loves to give poses in front of camera.She took part in fancy dress competition organised by cornerstone India foundation.Her academic skills are average.She loves to play with colours,so I introduced painting as a extra curricular activities to her two years back.She loves to paint diyas.She was the third position holder of Special saathi’s online art competition on children’s day in the junior category.Other than painting she loves to do embroidery work.She makes tote bags and table clothes using her embroidery work.
Changemakersaathi Special school for special needs children in Noida, Delhi and NCR region.
Nirantar Prayas is the combined effort of like-minded parents to provide for a life full of dignity and respect for their children with special needs, captained by an experienced special educator and parent – Ms. Madhuchhanda Mishra.
“Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent and their ability and their motivation, to make something of themselves” –John F. Kennedy
A Delhi-NCR based non-profit NGO run by a group of parents having children with autism and special educators. We aim to provide a life of dignity and respect for persons with intellectual disabilities. Captained by a parent cum special educator Ms. Madhuchhanda Mishra with 15+ Years of experience. Nirantar Prayas currently operates a pre-vocational center (for students 12+ years of age) and a vocational center (for students 18+ years of age) at Noida with currently a total of 31 students.
Our Mission – A continuous effort towards empowering our children. Our Vision – Establishing dignity and respect for the differently-abled. Our Core Values: Social inclusion and holistic development of our children.
Our Everyday Schedule Our everyday routine start with prayer,followed by national anthem. After that we do physical exercise followed by an interactive circle time ,after that we do lunch,which is followed by class time (where we focus on funtional academics money concepts,time, simple reading comprehension etc.),after that we have a work time and fun time.
Out door Activities We take our children to Malls,Parks, metro rides , movies to give them exposure and spread awareness and prepare them for social situations.
We also visit corporate houses and give exposure to our children in different situations
Pre-Vocational Skilling Our pre-vocational program has been planned to find interest inclinations,abilities and give knowledge of functional academics,develop personal competences and prepare them for the requirements from the world of works
Our pre-vocational program has been well-planned and tested and it basically works towards improving child’s abilities in following areas: • Communication • ADL Independence • Functional academics • Computer training • Timeliness • Basic skills in cooking, cloth folding, office skills etc.
Vocational Training We prepare our inmates to work in sheltered workshops as well as in house personnels. We give computer training,working on manual machinces like paper plate making machine, sewing machine, we teach them in making newspaper bags that reduces the use of polithine bags. We teach stitching and beading activities to promote attending skills. We also teach house keeping activities live making tea coffee on a tea vending machine, brooming and moping floor, dusting ,folding cloths etc. we also have a shoppie that teach our children money exchange and calculation and buying and selling products.
We are planning to start cooking
Sports Activities Sports activities help in reducing stress and enhances the moods of our students and increase fitness,improve sleep cycle and help in socialisation
Festivals India is a land of festival, we use them as moment of social interaction and celebrate event the life itself.
Residential Facilities We have Residential Facilities to make our children feel at home and to give them a healthy environment.
Our Lockdown Sessions In this era of Pendemic We connect with our students through Zoom. we focuse on Functional academics, language ,story sessions, craft activity, computer skils and Yoga
ASSESSMENTS AND INDIVIDUALISED EDUCATION PLANS We conduct an initial assessment to gauge child’s current functioning level in areas of cognitive, sensory, ADL (activities of daily living). This includes detailed interviews with parents/ caregiver as well as multiple sessions with the child. Based on this we chart an individualised education plan for the child setting semi-annual goals. As each child with developmental disability has different needs, this helps us provide personalized attention to major areas of disability for the child.
We are Providing an Environment for Our Students to Grow & Excel We aim to enrich the quality of life for its students, providing them inclusive opportunities – socially, physically, emotionally and professionally, to the best of their abilities. In the longer term, we want to setup a residential facility for differently abled Individuals
Team Nirantar Prayas
Creative representation for this blog is done by our extremely talented CreativeSaathi associate Morpheus Nag and Dhairya Kumar Pal
