Founder /Trustee of Swabodhini School,Chennai, Ms Radha Ganesan , had a chat with us on the crucial topic of employability of special adults.
The video can be viewed here-
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
SCAN Conversations- 4 with the specialists
Suja Shyamsunder and Chitra Paul, two SCAN moms, steered this chat with five professionals about their lockdown experience and online work.
The video can be watched here..
Scan Conversation- 3
This time SCAN Conversations talks to couples and the various problems that ensue with having a special child in the family. The interview was steered by SCAN mom Jayanthi on 31st jan 2021
Watch the program here..
Phone a Friend
With no end in sight of the end of the pandemic we start a small idea- Call a friend if you want to have a fun chat, a serious existential chat, listen to a song, or get Reiki or Crystal healing or just do a three-minute meditation. All contacts are part of the SCAN family.
Online Kolam Contest for Pongal 2021
As usual we sent out invites to all SCAN families to take part in our online Kolam contest. Here are the entries that enthralled us..
Dhruv and his flower kolam..
SCAN mom Kalpana's mother, Kalaisevi Krishnaswamy, is herself deaf and mute, yet has enormous talents and zest for life..
Sumathi and Prajakta with their effort...
Deepa and Sarvajeet take up pookolam..
Sarvajeet's pookolam..
Valli, Umayal's daughter sends us many kolams...
Valli's kolams..
Vasundhara and Sujith send us this lovely pongal kolam..
And lastly Kavin with his kolam contribution making it an enjoyable online evening for all.
Friday, December 25, 2020
2020- the year when we learnt to ZOOM!
Corona really pinched our support group works very hard, restricting us until October, 2020 to just messages in our telegram group. We helped many new parents who had recently discovered the special needs in their wards.
But in October we got our act together with an online program for Navratri, for which we arranged three interviews of vendors all of whom were part of the Special Needs community. We ran a Fb page and campaign called Mottamadi Thamboolam, for the sale of Golu gifts.
Several special needs vendors made a decent sale, through this endeavor.
Then we had a composite program in which we showcased our children's talents, had a fashion show and an Antakshari all in the same evening. The video is on youtube in the link below-
We ended the four hours program with an Antakshari, which can be viewed here-
Then we arranged a program on Diwali in which we showcased a video made by Aparna and her daughter Suvarna on Diwali. Then we presented the new things the mothers did during quarantine time, then a zoom presentation of a dance program from Anubhava School of Meera Krishnamurthy, a Scan Mom, followed by a quiz by another Scan Mom Seetha Vikas,
The whole program can be viewed here-
Then Gopinath Ramakrishnan, FounderTrustee of Scan, did a program on Inclusive Living, a project he has been working on for a year or so. You can view that here-
Our last set of programs for 2020 was SCAN Conversations- lead by Suja Shyamsunder, on different topics. A new initiative by Suja, a parent from Chennai with a 13 years old son with autism, steers a conversation about discoveries made during corona time, changes in the children's lives and 'Wow' moments of resplendent joy, with Sonal, Devaki, Chitra, Deepa, Jayanthi, Sumathi and Vimal.
Please view it here-
The second in the series of SCAN Conversations was on 'High Functioning or Low Functioning" with regards to special needs of any type, as a topic. What it means in the context of the children, whether it is useful to define it as such etc. The discussion was between mothers of different disorders such as Fragile- x Syndrome, Sturge Webber Syndrome, Autism and Phelan- Mcdermid Syndrome.
It can be viewed here-
Thus ends 2020, Corona put us down, but we raised the ante and got back to business albeit only online!
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Partnering with Nayi Disha
Nayi Disha, a Hyderabad based resource centre is in the process of creating a country wide Resource Library, city by city, and we at Scan became partners to help this process.
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