Greens Special School run under Ayesha Educational Society (Non Profit Organization) established in 2008 is a school for children with special needs.
It provides state of the art facility to assist the children suffering from various disabilities like epilepsy, Down's syndrome, autism, hearing impairment, physical disability, intellectual disability and multiple disabilities. It has a team of special educators, physiotherapists, speech therapists and psychologist, who dedicatedly support and strive for all the needs of the special children.
Greens Special School steered by Mrs. Ayesha Rubina, who has been relentlessly working for the cause of the special needs children for the past 20 years. She is the Hon. sec of A.P. Welfare Association for Mentally Retarded, a founder member and a trustee of Special Olympics, A.P. Chapter and has been conducting awareness campaigns.
Greens Special School believes that children with special needs should become an integral part of society; they should not be isolated, segregated or discriminated against in any way. For these children, going to school is essential to learn not only academic skills but also discipline, social skills, and practical skills for community living. Though they are slow in learning, by applying the right kind of educational techniques, it Is possible to impart the basic skills of reading, writing, and basic arithmetic to the children.
Education is the gateway to participation in society. It is particularly important for children with disabilities, when these children are able to attend school, parents and caregivers are able to find time for other activities including earning a living and resting.
To a parent, every child is special in his or her own way. Every parent wants his or her child to be physically and developmentally perfect. But some children have special needs that challenge parents. The financial strain of providing for them represents a staggering burden to each family that has this responsibility. We have noticed during the operation of our school that a demand of a monthly fee of as little as Rs.1000 per month leads to a substantial number of drop outs of students. It is not only children of the lower income bracket but also children of middle class who drop out because after the family takes care of the medical bills of the child they are often not in a position to pay any fees, as they consider and rightly so the medical needs of the child to be the top priority and compromise on the only thing that they can and that is Education.
Therefore all the facilities of special educators, physiotherapist, speech therapist and psychologist at the school are provided free of cost. Monthly themes are taken at the school to correlate the activities with the concept teaching. These include color days, festivals, safety & hygiene, good health, animals, transportation, plants, healthy food etc. Regular parent teacher meetings are conducted at the school to keep the parents updated about the progress of their wards.