Kodagu Vidyalaya Opportunity School

 

The rehabilitation of ‘Differently Abled’ children was identified as a totally neglected area by The Management of Kodagu Vidyalaya. So the Opportunity School – Sahas, was set up within the Kodagu Vidyalaya campus.they started the first center of its kind in the District with eight children. Today there are 50 students with varied disabilities, receiving special assistane according to their individual needs. These include Speech Therapy, Physiotherapy, Behaviour Modification, Self Help Skills and Formal or Functional Education. Various sports, music and dance,arts and crafts are also part of the programme. More recently vocational training has been introduced to make them self reliant and enable them to enter the main fabric of society with a certain degree of self confidence and dignity.