What do We do
We are a team of dedicated and passionate professionals who would like to make the budding blooms, the children, into tiny miraculous wonderful social beings. It was this seed of thought that brought us together and hence, Raajarajeshwari began to take root.
Why have we begun
To serve the children who are all affected by cerebral palsy, autism, mental retardation, learning disability, speech delay, Cognitive skill delay and down syndrome.
We have been helping the kids with these above disorders through proper therapies and special education on continuous basis for their improvement of all the areas of development milestones in different age level.
Who Are We
We are a multidisciplinary team of physiotherapists, psychologists, speech & language consultant, special educators and supporting staff. Our team members are,
Mrs. K. Uma Maheswari (B.P.T/C.N.D.T/C.M.T/M.I.A.P/D.Ed.Spl(MR) -working as Physiotherapist, Neuro Development Therapist (Paediatrics), Manual Therapy, Sensory Integration Therapy and She had completed her under graduate in physiotherapy in Vinayaka Mission College of Physiotherapy, Salem, on November 1997. After graduation, she had worked as full time physiotherapist and attended the Orthopaedic and ICU patients till June 2002 at City Hospital, Dindigul and worked as a Asst. Professor till May 2008 at Matha College of Physiotherapy, Manamadurai. Then she had NDT training under Dr. Uma Shah who is headed and managed in the name of Sankalp Rehabilitation Centre, Madurai and worked as NDT Therapist and Physiotherapist at Virudhunagar. Since 2009, she has been practicing by own as physiotherapist and NDT Therapist in Bangalore.
Miss. Annie S Cresta has completed Medical & Psychiatric Social Work at Mangalore University. She had experienced as education trainee at Psychiatric Department,Yenepoya hospital and Mangalore Women's cell, sub-jail and also worked as a counselor in Moksha De-addiction Centre and Worked as Special Educator in Asha Special School, Bangalore.
Mr. Anoop Jose has completed B.Phil at De'sales University and Medical & Psychiatric Social Work at Mangalore University. He had experienced as a education trainee in Manasuini Tunga Institute of Psychiatry and Councelling and also worked as a special educator in Apoorva Autism Centre.
Mrs.Mrs.Anju Mathew has completed Bachelor Degree in Speech Language Pathologist and Audiologist and has been working as a Speech language pathologist and Audiologist (RCI licensed). She had experienced as -Clinical supervisor at the department of Audiology & Speech Therapist at DEALL unit for children with Autism, Dr.S.R. Chandrasekhar Institute of Speech and Hearing from June 2010 to September 2011,Kid’s ville Academy – Integrated school from June 2012 till October 2013, Perception Services- Centre for children with special needs from October 2011 till March 2015 and also Private practice - April 2015 till present.
Mr. Pavan Kamble is a Rehabilitation Council of India Certified Audiologist and Speech Language Pathologist and Clinical Manager Insight Rehabilitation - Bangalore. His area of interest and practice is in rehabilitation of child language disorders and cognitive disorders.
Miss. Shree Devi, Miss. Savitha, Mrs. Rani and Mrs. Hamsha - working as supporting staff for therapist and Special educators and also doing care takers of our children.
Our focus areas
Focus on 8 areas of holistic development of child
1. Social readiness skills, emotional responsiveness and interpersonal skills
2. Awareness of environment, community challenges and coping skills
3. Preparatory services for school and classroom readiness
4. Language skills and conversation building skills
5. Cognitive skills enhancement
6. Self help awareness and skill implementation across home, school and other social settings
7. Motor skills involving gross motor play skills and fine motor skills for academic performance
8. Coping with stress, anxiety and performance
Our program consists of
- One on one sessions for school readiness
- Speech intensive sessions
- Holistic development sessions
- Physical intensive sessions
- Cognitive and special intensive sessions
- Sensory integration sessions
- Preschool sessions
How are we different
- We do not make our sessions completely structured
- We follow multiple theoretical bases since a single theoretical base of learning may not be completely effective for the child.
- We ensure that we keep the parents in constant loop with child’s progress and plan, hence you are not left wondering what is happening behind closed doors
- We prioritize behavior management and language over others
- We believe in giving opportunity to each child, however difficult it may be, just so that no child is neglected
Our principles and methodology
Development occurs in a series of stages. Do not attempt to jump or skip any stage.
Teaching is no longer what a child requires. Child requires to be stimulated, not taught.
Teaching strategy is a blend of
- Montessori: child is natural learner
- Kindergarten: Transition from home to school using activities.
We will cover all topics that a public/private school expects child to be aware of. Our curriculum has been developed after consulting various schools in Bangalore.
Teaching Methodology
- Half of school timing will be for unstructured exploratory play based learning. (We don't want our children to be robots, do we?)
- Half of school timing will be for structured table top classroom based learning. (We also want our children to do well in a big public school, don't we?)
- Any topic discussed will be explained in a manner that involves all 5 areas of development.
- Learning does not end with Reading, Writing and Mathematics. Learning is more than academics, hence Holistic Learning.
- Any topic taken up will be taught in a minimum of 4 different and unique methods to help child to Generalize.
- Any topic you would want us to cover, will also be taken up; provided we think it is beneficial for child and his peers.(Hence, you are also a part of our curriculum development)
Our focus points for school
Books - The best after extensive research
- Lesson plans for a particular month are prepared well in advance such that the teacher knows what is going to be taught next month.
- Lesson plans are made for each single day, so your child will not come to school and waste time.
- Fridays are "Fab Fridays", where child is allowed to enjoy in their zone but yet, learning takes place in this non-academic atmosphere.
Teachers - undergo intensive pre-teaching sessions as well on on-hands training.
- Our teachers and support staff will be monitored by a team of academicians as well as head of curriculum development to aid in better teaching strategies.
- One on one sessions for child during school hours or after school hours to facilitate learning for children who require the specialized input. Sessions may range from academics to speech stimulation to attention building activities and similar..!
- Each child will be monitored by the Psychologist to find target problem areas/behaviors.
- Parental counselling will be provided if we feel it's necessary.
- Behavior management will be one of our top priorities.
- Weekly "STEP" meeting
- S for Student
- T for Teacher
- E for Educational
- P for Plan
STEP meetings are our very own strategy, unique to us.
STEP meetings help us develop an intuitive teaching strategy that is tailor made for each child.
- Monthly meeting with parents.
- Saturdays are Teacher Mentoring Programmes where teachers review and discuss about each child with management and curriculum staff.
- We have tie-up with academicians and clinicians who are on call any time to help us or the children, if need be.
- Parents can initiate a meeting any time (and any number of times), we will oblige willingly.
- All meetings will be documented and a copy of the minutes will be sent to the parent through the preferred mode.
Teacher to Child Ratio
One teacher and a non-teaching helper is present for every five children. An ayah will also be there.
Fees
Fees has collected as concessional rate.
Clothing
As we encourage children to learn doing things by themselves, it would be easier if clothes did not have difficult buttons and buckles.
Toiletries and Changes
Nappies and toiletries should be provided by the parents. For older children
‘potty training’ is a must. Please send a complete change of clothes, including
underwear and socks, every day.
Safety and Emergency
At Raajarajeshwari we understand that safety of our children is imperative. We
ensure their safety in the following ways:
(1) Visually supervising the children at all times.
(2) Ensuring that everything is child friendly and safe.
(3) Ensure that all equipment is in good repair.
