Sai Sakthi

Condition: Spastic Right Hemiplegic with Moderate Mental Retardation

Date of birth: 06- 08- 1996

Type of Rehab: Special Education at Nesam, Arcot, India  

Education: Special Education

Sponsors - Handicare International, Ontario, Canada

Year of sponsorship: 2003

 SAI SAKTHI

       Name of the StudentL:                Sai Sakthi

       Date of Birth:                            06.08.1996

       Date of Admission:                     09.06.2003

       Father’s Name:                          R.S.Umapathy

       Occupation:                              Officer in a private firm

       Mother’s Name:                         Jayachitra

       Occupation:                              Secondary grade teacher

       Siblings:                                   1 elder sister aged 10. 1 younger brother

                                                      aged 1 year

       Residence Address:                    C/40, T.N.H.B. Flats, Karai

       Marriage between Parents:           No Consanguinity.

Nature of disability

Spastic right hemiplegic with moderate mental retardation. She talks well. Lacks Memory. Walks dragging her right leg. Does not use her right hand for any activity. Incontinence is presents. No urine control. Urinating in the panties all the time.

Medical History

She was born by normal delivered with a hematoma in her back just below the neck. She was operated upon soon after the birth and the hematoma was removed.

Training methods adopted at Nesam.

Physical Exercises:

- Weight bearing exercises for the right leg.

- Walking training with up to the knee calipers and shoes

- Finger coordination exercises for the right hand and finger

Activities of daily living:

- To train her 10 eat with her right hand

- To make her go  to the toilet at regular intervals to reduce in continence

Educational Activities

- To identify Basic colors (red, blue, yellow green. white and black) and

  shapes ( square, rectangle and triangle)

- To pick out the individual letters of her name and arrange in order and

   read.

- To identify letters and a few words (25 words)

- To read her address, reading each letters

- To write her name with her left hand and to scribble with her right

  and to improve her finger coordination

- To identify numbers up to 5 with concept and write from 1 to 5.

- To arrange the pictures of a story in sequence (after hearing the story)

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