Team Teaching

The team teaching program uplifts academic performance of the children. This activity is a collaborative effort of Urmi foundation personnel and BMC school teachers. We develop curriculum, design teaching tools and guide teachers to hone the performance of the child. The assessment is carried out very carefully with all scientific checklists. The team teaching program proved its mettle by raising academic performance of our partner schools more than 40% in a single academic year. Till date we have supported over 200 students with the help of BMC teachers by adopting over 4 BMC special schools. Our objective in the future will be to implement new teaching methodologies with the help of our partner BMC schools.

Behavioral Modification

Through an intensive study, we have formed a module called the "Behavior Modification" program which aims at inculcating socially acceptable behavior. Due to lack of equivalent understanding and learning special child often displays a behavior such as self-destructing, echolalia, and lack of physical and psychological control over oneself largely affects the learning process and social acceptance. After a detail assessment we plan actual implementation with the help of 'Reinforcement, Punishment, Extinction, Shaping, Fading and Chaining' methods. Having carried out these tasks successfully, the 'Behavior Modification” programme has created a huge impact. It has not only proved to improve the learning process of a special child, but has also encouraged the participation of such children at social events. Added to this, one of the greatest benefits for the child has been, the absence of any kind of injury.

Art Therapy

It is said that art adds meaning to the human life. The art therapy programme at Urmi involves our therapists, special educators and a plethora of colors. The Urmi team executes different creative activities such as vegetable printing, mask making etc. These creative tasks improve fine and gross motors skills, eye-hand coordination as well as the attention span of students while producing some really pretty pictures.

Parent's Workshops

Being a mother is a fulltime job, and being a mother of a special child is in itself, an extremely responsible and sensitive job profile. The parents of many of our students are ignorant about special parenting. We, therefore, empower them about subjects like nutrition, financial literacy, epilepsy, sex education and behavior modification methods. We reach out to them through workshops and enable them to add greater value to lives of their little ones. We have reached out more than150 mothers from the schools and more than 1500 mothers from the communities and sensitized them about special childcare.

Occupational Therapy

Occupational therapy enables the child to be physically independent and surmount spasticity to learn better. Due to delayed development, many special children face difficulties with fine and gross motor skills. More than 60 children have benefitted from occupational therapy. It helps improve their academic performance and daily living routines. Our trained and experienced doctor plans and implements occupational therapy. She also designs home programs with parents to maintain the followup of the therapy activities.