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Achievements
Rehabilitation by Riddhi
Deep Khan
Deep is a physically and mentally challenged young man of about 30 years. He is our ex-student. He completed NIOS Sr. Secondary through family contacts and was tried to be rehabilitated in some office, a school as an apprentice and helper. Both the experiences were very demoralizing for him. The people of the workplace were not sensitive to or understanding about his limitations. He was made fun of, scolded for his slowness and ultimately made to sit throughout the day with no work.
Anjali Kumari Shaw
An intellectually as well as physically impaired 18 year old girl. She also suffers from epilepsy. She has been in Riddhi since October 2009.
Interventions have been done in the areas of behaviour modification, cognitive training, and training for coordination of movement, functional academic and vocational training.
Strengths: She has learnt various vocational activities mainly for running the canteen unit; has been introduced to loom where she has shown interest.
Suvam Bhattacharya
A 27 year old Intellectually Impaired Young Adult. He has been in Riddhi since December 2002.
Intervention: In the area of behaviour modification (particularly OCD and abnormal fear).
Academic Achievements: Cleared Secondary board; at present pursuing Senior Secondary.
Strength: Good dancer
Imran Nazir
Imran comes from a socially and economically backward background. His mother works as a domestic help, father at times leaves the family and goes away and cannot be depended on. He came to Riddhi at a tender age of 3 and half years. He had delayed the birth cry by 17 days. He was also epileptic.
Major issues that were tackled by Riddhi:
1) Social improvement 2) Cognitive development
3) Behavior modification 4) Speech & Language development
5) Family counseling & empowerment 6) Reducing hyperactive behaviours
7) Medical intervention
A Success Story
Sk. Md. Muneebur Rahman
A young adult, a student and also an assistant in our vocational unit is now ready for the next step and we at Riddhi have appointed him as a trainee office assistant as well as assistant in three segments of our vocational training unit namely – Canteen service, Baking unit and Weaving unit.
Muneebur has been under our care for the last 18 years. A mild intellectual impaired boy, at first was very introvert and hesitant but gradually bloomed beautifully. Now he is confident, travels freely, and faces challenges boldly. His main problem is his short term memory which is a great hindrance to his academic performance. Keeping that in mind we trained him giving stress in other areas of learning. He is a good sports person and one time National Table Tennis Champion (2013) and one time runner up (2008).
He still plays T.T. in a renowned club in our locality. His transformation into a well behaved, cooperative young man is remarkable.