Reaching & Educating At-risk Children


AADI Documents:


AADI
 

Action for Ability Development and Inclusion [AADI]
2, Balbir Saxena Marg, Hauz Khas, New Delhi - 110 016
Tel.: 011-26966331, 26864736

 

Project Snapshot


Project title: Towards Inclusive Education
Project duration: October 2004-August 2007
Project contact person at AADI: G. Syamala
Geographical areas of coverage: Not identified yet
Total number of child beneficiaries: 4000
Type of grant: Direct Service Delivery grant
Funding amount: Rs 1.35 crore over the project period.

1. Project Summary:The program proposed for REACH India focuses on providing inclusive education via five government demonstration schools in Delhi as well as transforming the AADI school into one that serves both disabled and non-disabled children. The project aims to reach 4400 children directly. Other activities include community-based educational services for out-of-school children with disabilities and action research.

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 Objectives: The project aims to:

Promote inclusive practices and culture through a whole school development approach.

Influence existing policies at the school level to support inclusion of children.

Evolve appropriate and replicable service delivery model(s), which address specific educational and social needs of children with disabilities both within and outside the educational system.Collate and disseminate empirical evidence gathered during the project with the aim of impacting policy.

3. Methodology: The project's key components include:

Developing nine mainstream schools (including Government schools) as demonstration schools with a "whole school development" approach.

Evolving the AADI school into a model for inclusive education.

Providing individual support services for children with disabilities in 40 schools in Delhi.

Offering community-based educational services for "out of school" children with disabilities.

Conducting action research to document and disseminate findings.

4. Target audience: Children with disabilities, their parents and siblings, teachers, school management and staff, children without disabilities and their families, and policy makers.
5. Outcomes:It is expected that different models for providing quality education will emerge for children with disabilities. It is also expected that enrolment and retention of disabled children and the girl child will increase in the regular schools, especially in the demonstration schools.
6.About AADI:AADI (previously called Spastics Society of Northern India) was established in New Delhi in 1978 to provide services for people with cerebral palsy. It later broadened its scope, and worked with people with many other kinds of disabilities. In 1984, AADI began working with mainstream schools to integrate children with disabilities. AADI has played a major role in effecting policy changes at the national level including successfully influencing the Government to ensure that the census in 2001 included people with disabilities.