Ritham Charitable Trust

Ritham Special School was started in 2004 with 4 students to cater the needs of special children in and around Rajapalayam, Tamilnadu, India. Over the years, the institution has grown from strength to strength and as on date, it is one of the most reputed special schools in this region.

Early intervention is an educational therapy that helps to equip children with special needs with functional skills like fine motor, cognitive, communication, social, and self-help skills for learning and living. Early intervention may begin at any time between birth and school age as it is important to maximize the potential of the child during the optimal learning window.
• To understand individual kid's adapting needs and to give intervention to their development in a naturalistic and interactive learning environment.
• To elevate individual kid's ability to understand regular education.
• To team up and engage every kid's family for a far reaching support for the kid's improvement.
In this E.I class age group of 0-6 are included. We teach basic skills to their children. We mainly train the ADL and fine motor activities. We do the assessment by Upanayan scale. According to the scale we fix the skills.

We are running Out Patient Therapy Department for Intellectually challenged and other kids. Movement and play experiences provide the foundation for the development of motor, sensory, perceptual, and cognitive, language and social skills for infant and young children. For the infant and young child with physical or other developmental delays, these experiences are compromised. This means that parents and professionals need to work together as a team to create opportunities for movement and learning. Improve cognitive, social, motor and speech activities.
Our ‘Outpatient Therapy’ identifies the disability and gives awareness about the disability and prevents the contractures at very early stages and also prepares pre-academic skills. The kids came from outside and take treatment from our professionals.

Vocational means that part of continuous and coordinated process of rehabilitation, which involves the provision of those vocational training and selective placement, designed to enable a disabled person to secure and retain suitable employment. In this modern trend an individual should earn at least Rs. 200 per day to lead a decent life. Keeping in mind we taught them vocational training. We are now doing following vocational training:
i) Tailoring
ii) Data Entry
iii) Commercial Paper Cover Making
iv) Cleaning Powder
v) Candle making
vi) labon stick
vii) Phenyol Making
viii) Agarbathi Packing
ix) Soap Oil

Our main aim is to educate our students and then send them to main stream education. We select mild level students and teach normal school syllabus. After continues effort we try to write the state board syllabus exams like ESLC and SSLC. Upon continuous classes and rigorous training we enrolled the students in state board public exam. Till now 19 students from four batches were passed the public exam and secured good marks.

The institute mainly caters to the developmental needs of the person with Intellectual disability. About 30% of them constitute mild intellectual disability. This is a group that can be trained to develop vocational skills. If trained those with mild disabilities can be mainstreamed into the society.
Another 25% are of moderate disability or with multiple disabilities and the rest need long term institutional care. Those with moderate disability also can be trained with sustained care but their production and income levels will only commensurate with their residual abilities.
Now we to do sheltered work shop for moderate disabilities. We produce candle making, phenyl making, cleaning powder, labon stick and paper cover made by old weekly news letters.

We give free Special Education, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, Psychological Counseling and Physiotherapy to the Autism children under the honourable Prime Minister Health Scheme.