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Shishu Sarothi Centre for
Rehabilitation & Training
for Multiple Disability
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e joy of inclusive learning
Following pages (184–185):
Winning is much easier
when learning opportunities are equal
two children with cerebral
palsy
in a spare room in one child’s
grandfather’s home. A professional trained
in special education.. A small group of
parents and volunteers. ese were the
modest beginnings of the committed and
dedicated organization, Shishu Sarothi Centre
for Rehabilitation & Training for Multiple
Disability. Today, aſter nearly 4 decades, this
NGO is one of the major drivers of rights-based
interventions in northeast India, for health,
rehabilitation and education of children and
persons with developmental disabilities like
cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, and autism
– the lowest priority even among those with
disabilities in the north-east of India.
‘Our work in health, offered from various
locations across Assam,
focuses on early
intervention with families of children with
disabilities and offers assessment, counselling,
therapy and special education inputs, and
home management programmes from different
locations across Assam. In the education
domain, we promote inclusive education
through school readiness programmes in an
inclusive pre-primary education, and holistic
special education services for children with
disabilities and high support needs. Additional
Founded by Brinda Crishna, Mira Kagti,
Tondra Barbora and others in 1987
Shishu Sarothi’s vision is of an
inclusive world where all people
with disabilities – children, women,
and men - enjoy all human rights
and fundamental freedoms on an
equal basis with others, and are
respected for their inherent dignity,
and valued as a part of the human
diversity and humanity. It works for
and with children and persons with
disabilities in Assam and northeast
India by enabling and empowering
them through services and programs
across the thematic areas of health,
education, awareness & advocacy,
and research and documentation,
and has helped thousands of
children across northeast India.