The Association of People with Disability

The Association of People with Disability...
	is listed under the category Disability/Physical Disability
	was established in 1959
	focuses on physical disability, integrated school, community-based rehabilitation
	functions at the Local, State, National level
	works with urban and rural children with physical disability, also children with visual, hearing, speech disability and cerebral palsy
	has the resource of publications, newsletter
	welcomes help in the form of books, clothes, toys, donations

APD runs an integrated school, `Shradhanjali', for 200 disabled and non-disabled children from disadvantaged backgrounds. It has a slum outreach programme in 14 urban slums with formal and non-formal integrated education, home-based training for children, medical and surgical intervention, and vocational training. It runs an appliance centre which provides affordable and innovative aids such as crutches, callipers, body-braces and surgical shoes. It has a physiotherapy unit for therapy and awareness about managing locomotor disabilities, and trains aides in physiotherapy. It also has a rural community-based rehabilitation ( CBR) programme in 10 villages of Kolar district, and conducts a one-year, residential horticulture training programme. Under the CBR umbrella urban slum teachers are trained every quarter on curriculum development and there are also training programmes for mothers. APD has set up pre-primary centres similar to Balwadis and Anganwadis.The teachers are trained on a monthly basis and their skills are upgraded with the help od resource experts.

Mr V S Basavaraju, Executive Director
Available - Mon-Sat 9.00-5.00, Second Sat holiday
6th Cross, Hutchins Road, St. Thomas Town PO, Lingarajpuram, Bangalore - 560084.
Ph 25475165, 25475861 , Fax 25470390 , Email apdblr@gmail.com , Website www.apd-india.org