Aims & Advantages of Portage Services

Aims of Portage Services

• Early Identification of children at risk of developmental delays/learning disabilities/mental retardation.

• Maintaining a child's current skills and strengths.

• Helping the child acquire new developmental skills.

• Improving the child's and family's quality of life.

• Arranging Referral services for the children whenever required.

• Motivating, awakening and mobilizing the community.

• Educating and Training parents including those of the slum areas and illiterate parents for educating their children.

• Utilizing existing community resources and infrastructure at pre-school level.

• Providing Educational, Vocational and Personal guidance.

Advantages of Portage Service

• Is cost effective.

• Utilizes community's resources rather than highly qualified staff.

• Stresses upon parental involvement as a natural therapists. Also parents as consumers feel more involved.

• Follows a highly structured design yet it is simple in its implementation.

• Stresses upon systematic, step by step skill training.

• Focuses on priority area of National Policy of Education in India.

• Can be modified according to the specific needs.

• Robustness of the material and processes.

• International, cross-cultural research and development base.

• Results in Increased I.Q. and cognitive abilities.

• Helps in language enrichment and acquisition of better self-help skills.

• Reduces possibilities of developing secondary disabilities and behavior excesses.