Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Centre

Besides catering to the needs of the children of the Institute, it also aims to solve health problems of the local people. It served sensorial impaired children and adults with physical problems. This is manned by a specialist. There has been an appreciable increase in the number of beneficiaries. Kiranam Health Education is being formed with eminent doctors, who voluntarily accepted to serve the disabled around Vanasthalipuram, like Hayatnagar, Ibrahimpatnam, Turkumjal, Nagole, Sahebnagar, Peddamberpet, Kohida etc., with an aim to display the prevocational and vocational skills and abilities in persons with mental handicaps to the lay public thereby dispelling the letters doubts / suspicions on the capabilities of the persons with mental retardation.

Major Service Units :

The Major Service Units that the shouldered the important programmes of the Organization are as follows:

1. Medico-Social Work.
2. Clinical Psychology.
3. Psychiatry.
4. Speech Therapy.
5. Physio therapy.
6. Special Education.
7. Vocational Training.

The important functions carried out by them are :

1. Programme implementation as members of multi-disciplinary team.
2. Participation in various regular and non-regular programmes of the institute.
3. Home-based extension services.
4. Consultancy and exchange of expertise.
5. Training Programmes / Workshops / Seminars.

Under Medico-Social Work, diagnostic service, Family Intervention, Parental Counseling, Assessment, Awareness Camps, Extension services are provided to a limited number of cases in our locality. Under Clinical Psychology, follow-up and assessment behaviour modification and parental counseling are taken up. Following are the cases examined under Speech Pathology therapy :

Speech Therapy :

• Diagnostic Assessment             10
• Individual Speech Therapy      120
• Follow-up Cases                        45
• Parental Counseling                   30 
• Awareness Camp                       03

Physio Therapy :

• Diagnostic Assessment              10
• Assessment and Guidance         03 
• Individual therapy                      276

Vocational Training