In order to update on latest developments supporting the children of special needs, Seva Bharathi ® Mangalore organized a one day workshop on 8th April 2023 at the event Hall of Chetana school on the subject “Communication Training – How and when?”. The program was meant for the teachers working in special schools of undivided Dakshina Kannada district. Dr. Jayashree S Bhat, Ph.D, M.Sc.(Sp. & Hg.), MA(Psy.), Audiologist, Speech & Language Pathologist and swallowing Therapist, K M C Mangaluru was the Resource person in the workshop. In the inaugural session, the representative of Seva Bharathi® Shri B Prakash Pai stated that the workshop is to train and update the teachers on the base issues in their work area so that they could utilize training knowledge in normalizing the challenged children as also to educate their parents in the right way. During the session, the resource person explained the minute aspects of the ‘language’ and ‘communication’ with reference to ‘special children’ by quoting live examples. In group presentation, discussion and interaction, participants took part actively and interestingly. Totally, 70 teachers from 30 special schools attended and they were issued with participation certificates.
