About Sanmatti Matimand Vikas Kendra
SANMATTI is a non-residential special school for mentally disabled children opened in 1992. Necessary registration under National Trust Act under Reg. No. 1310/ 14/09/1992 was secured to the school. The school opened new vistas to the parents having MR children. It made available a reliable guidance/centre to their siblings. The students divided in mild, moderate and severe category. Based on their IQ and associated disabilities they are further divided into seven groups. Specially trained educators and experts are appointed in the institute.
Having a modest beginning with a few number of mentally challenged children today, Sanmati is giving education to about 120 students mostly hail from poor and middle class. The age group of these students is from 6 to 18. A specially designed syllabus for the MR students is implemented in order to shape hidden talents/trends of the children. Indeed, it is a challenging task to detect the instincts of the student who in fact are unable to respond either verbally or through tests otherwise an easy work for normal student.
The various activities given bellow, reveal the various exposures provided to the students in order tender their hobbies and bring light in their life. No doubt, initially every student is carefully and gradually taught to learn daily/ routine activities and become self-reliant.
Preamble
Despite buzzing schools, colleges and engineering campuses, the town lacked the schooling for mentally retarded children. The crowded schools disregarded the necessity of the school for the MR. Hence, in order to meet the demand of a special educational unit for such neglected handicapped children so also to open branch to provide special counseling, remedial educational guidance and requisite infrastructure under trained teachers, Jain Sanskruthik & Shaikshank Mandal was establish in 1992. The motto of the institute is to serve the otherwise deemed as burden to family society and ultimately to nation’ the unfortunate mentally disabled children. The institute aim not to leave them to pity of the people but to bring them into mainstream.