Life Skill Resource Room

Life Skill Resource Room at Vidya Vikas Academy started way back in 2007. It has grown over this long period. We strongly believe in the quote by Robert John Meehan ‘It shouldn’t matter how slowly a child learns. What matters is that we encourage them to never stop trying.

  • In the Resource Room, we highlight the child’s strengths and work on Functional Skills like self-help skills, money concepts, reading time, skills that will help them to be independent in the future.
  • Besides Academic skills, we have a wide range of activities organized to develop their fine motor muscles, gross motor (muscles) & communication skills.
  • We have children with special needs ranging between 5-16 years of age. Our children with special needs have impairments like ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder), ID (Intellectual Disability), Down Syndrome, CP (Cerebral Palsy), and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder).
  • Our students have been participating in events organized by Special Olympics, Bharat, Goa & have won prizes at State & national levels. Our Special Educators & children are being trained by a visiting Music Therapist in the keyboard & guitar.
  • These students are a part of all cultural shows/programs, Sports Festivals organized by the school. We have conducted exhibitions of artifacts made by our students in the past.
  • Our ex-students have also cleared their STD X at the first attempt from NIOS. The students are taken on excursions, picnics & field trips in the course of the year.
  • We believe that our students can definitely learn in a mainstream school. The only difference is they learn differently and at their own pace, with individualized attention and that is what we do in the Resource Room.

Academic Resource Room

The academic resource room caters to students having specific learning disabilities like dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, etc, and students having motor issues.

  • It focuses on building an individual’s basic academic skills like reading, writing, speaking, and maths to help the child cope with the academic requirements to follow a regular curriculum.
  • Students are admitted into the ARR only after a formal assessment by a clinical psychologist.
  • Based on the test results, the special educators are able to help and teach the students according to his/her learning style and with different strategies and innovative teaching aids.