Courses for Parents/Caregivers
Autism Management Program
Duration: 1 month
Eligibility: Parent with a child on ASD
Description: Autism Spectrum disorder being the most researched upon, yet has its own complexities for basic caregivers. A parent has to develop a unique understanding of how to respond to the various behaviour and sensory issues of their child with respect to the environment. This program focuses on the practical independence of the child.
Eligibility: Parent with a child on ASD
Duration: 16 weeks (flexible)
Mode: Group online training
Highlights: Includes Activities of daily living (ADL’s)
Behaviour Modification
Social Skills
Academic and Career planning
Sensory integration
Home Schooling Training for Parent
Duration: 3 months
Eligibility: Any Parent
Home Schooling Training for Parent
Description: With changing times and COVID situations, homeschooling has become even more popular. Homeschooling is an intelligent approach for children with special needs because it gives ample time to focus on other therapies. Parents following the Glenn Doman program do integrate home school approach. A parent needs to be trained and focused in order to do justice with home-schooling a child with special needs. It is imperative to create systematic goals and plans to achieve the same in the course of Homeschooling.
Eligibility: Any Parent
Duration: 3 months
Mode: Individual online training
Highlights: Individualised for every parent
With Integrating therapies or Doman approach
Training in planning and execution
Can select NIOS or IGCSE board
For neurotypical as well as children with any medical condition or terminal illness
Early Intervention Planning
Duration: 10 hours
Eligibility: Any Parent with a special needs child
Description: With the diagnosis comes in great responsibility of planning and understanding the correct path for therapies. Early intervention is highly recommended; however, it is vital for every parent with a special needs child to understand the complete profile for their child and the role that different therapies would play. We also include the role and the approach that parents could take-up for parenting a child with special needs.
Eligibility: Any Parent with a special needs child
Duration: 10 hours
Mode: Individual online training
Highlights: Individualised for every parent
Regular follow-ups at different stages
Assistance in forming an individualized plan
Recent therapies covered
Integration of various therapies and therapeutic suggestions
Tracking and monitor progress.
Courses for Students
Child Psychology – Level II
Duration: 150 hours (Weekend + Internship)
Eligibility: MA or BA in psychology and Child Psychology course(Level I )
Child Psychology – Level II
Description: The level II of the program is meant to aide the students and professionals who have completed the Level I of training as well as are interested to learn more about the intervention and management programs. Once the skills of observation and identification are mastered understanding the profile of the child and identifying the right approach to the interventions is a must. The participants will be exposed to a number of interventional modules like, educational interventions, sensory-based activities, play therapy, behaviour modification, specific skills and strategies of approaches like ABA and Glenn Doman. Further, they will also be exposed to skills for conducting parent management training programs as well as life skills programs for adults with special needs.
Eligibility: MA or BA in psychology and Child Psychology(Level I )
Duration: 150 hours (Weekend + Internship)
Mode: Group training + Internship
Highlights: Focused on the in-trend therapy approach
Practical training in planning and executing sessions
Behaviour modification training; with Play therapy and ABA techniques
School- counsellor profile training
Child Psychology – Level I
Duration: 100 hours (Weekend)
Eligibility: MA or BA in psychology students
Child Psychology – Level I
Description: This course is meant for students and professionals who have pursued a bachelors or a masters degree in Psychology and have a basic understanding about the principles and skills related to the field ( at least theoretically). The course would help them to bridge the gap between theory and application. They will also be exposed to the adoption of strategies and techniques as per the profile. The course will involve assignments and case studies to enable the skill training process. The focus areas will be child development, theories of child development, basics of neurodevelopmental disorders and related conditions, conducting as well as recording systematic observations and identifying/ assessing basic issues with the help of checklists. The course is also meant to target professionals and students who are enrolled via distance education in psychology from IGNOU or other open universities.
Eligibility: MA or BA in psychology
Duration: 100 hours (Weekend)
Mode: Group training
Highlights: Emphasised on the practical application
Diagnosis as DSM-V and ICD 10
Professional documentation
Case-work with observation sessions
Courses for Professionals
Remedial Teaching
Duration: 120 hours
Eligibility: BA psychology, Bed or ECCed
Remedial Teaching
Description: Every child has a unique learning style, the same is also relevant to children with special needs. An appropriate learning modality needs to be identified and a structure needs to be championed for the child to follow through the learning process. This requires not only a strong background of creative teaching methods but also meaningful engagement of the child into the process of learning via different strategies. This program aims to enable the participant with necessary skills to identify teaching and learning issues in a child. Following which, how to create effective educational interventions, working on core cognitive skills as well as the basic conceptual ability of reading, writing and performing functional mathematical skills. Remedial teaching also involves going back to basics for some children and then evaluating their readiness for the next level of complexity of concepts. Skills to form an Individualized Education Plan (IEP), conducting formative and summative assessments and learning to evaluate the content are some of the highlights of the course.
Eligibility: BA psychology, Bed or ECCed
Duration: 120 hours
Mode: Individual as well as group training
Highlights: Understanding Child’s academic profile
Initial screening test
Formulating and execution of IEP
Documentation
Shadow Teaching
Duration: 100 hours (Lecture + Internship)
Eligibility: Graduation/ ECCed or other equivalent courses
Shadow Teaching
Description: The Inclusive Education Policy has opened up several opportunities for children with behavioural and neurodevelopmental conditions to seek admissions in most of the Inclusive school setups affiliated to IB, IGCSE, ICSE, CBSE and selected State Boards. A child with special needs can learn in a mainstream set up but may not be completely independent as per his age. Hence to assist the child in the areas of academics, social skills, behaviours and school activities at the school set up, a shadow teacher is employed. The shadow teaching course aims to train professionals with skills and qualities par excellence to understand the needs of the child and intervene with a goal of making him/ her independent. Communicating effectively and ensuring smooth coordination with school authorities and parents is also one of the core areas of the training program. Along with communication and interventions, documentation as well as progress monitoring will be an additional skill that the participant will get an exposure to.
Eligibility: Graduation/ ECCed or other equivalent courses
Duration: 100hours plus internship
Fees:
Mode: Group training
Highlights: Learn it from the pioneer
Understanding child profile
Academic and Behaviour support
Process of making the child independent
Documentation training