Portage training for the developmentally
delayed young children was initiated for the first time in India
by Dr. Tehal Kohli (President - INPA) in 1980. Some of the Early
Intervention / Portage Models tried under her supervision are
listed below.
S.no. |
Investigator
|
Year
|
Title
|
Beneficiaries
|
1. |
Rajni Dutta (M. Phil)
|
1982
|
Portage
Service: An Intervention Programme for Pre-school Mentally
Retarded Children with Motor Handicaps.
|
10 MR Children for long term portage
training.
|
2. |
Kusum Sagar
|
1983
|
Effect of Early Stimulation on Developmental
Deficits of Infants under ICDS scheme.
|
80 parents & 40 infants of slums.
|
3. |
Kavita Malhotra
|
1984
|
Development of Play Material for Socialising
the Mentally Young Children.
|
40 MR Children, 40 Parents, 40 Caretakers
|
4. |
Saritinder Grewal
|
1984
|
Language Acquisition Programme for the
Mentally Retarded Young Children.
|
30 Pre-school MR children with language
problems.
|
5. |
Surekha Sundari Swami
|
1985
1986
|
Impact of ICDS services on various
Developmental Aspects of Pre-school Children
|
200 MR Children between 3 – 6 years
|
6. |
Farhad Farhang Azad (Ph.D)
|
1986
|
Effectiveness of Portage Home based Training
Programme on Cognitive Development of pre-school Mentally
Retarded Children.
|
30 MR (0 – 6 years), 30 Mothers.
|
7. |
Rajni Datta
|
1986
|
Impact of Home-center based training
programme to reduce Developmental Deficits project of
Disadvantaged Young Children under ICDS school in Chandigarh.
|
150 children, 150 Mothers, 150 AWWS
|
8. |
UNICEF sponsored
|
1987-89
|
Effect on Behavior Modification Techniques on
Aggressive Pre-school Children (3-6 years) of AW's in
Chandigarh.
|
3000 Infant Children, 300 MR Children
|
9. |
Batni Devi (Ph.D)
|
1989
|
Impact of Portage Trained Aganwadi workers on
Cognitive Development of Pre-schoolers at different levels
of intelligence.
|
Beneficiaries 30
|
10. |
Bhupinder Kaur
|
1989
|
Home based training to reduce
|
30 MR Children
|
11. |
Rita
|
1989
|
Home based Training to reduce Developmental
Deficits of Disadvantaged Young Children: A Follow up study
of UNICEF sponsored project.
|
30 MR Children followed up
|
12. |
Meenu
|
1989
|
Centre based Training to reduce Developmental
Deficits of Disadvantaged Young Children: A Follow up study
of UNICEF sponsored project.
|
60 MR Children
|
13. |
Maninder Kaur (M.Ed)
|
1990
|
A follow-up Early Intervention Programme to
reduce Developmental Defects of Disadvantaged School Going
Children
|
Initial Beneficiaries 200 children
Training 24 children
|
14. |
Satnam Kaur
|
1991
|
Effectiveness of Differential Reinforcement of other
Behaviour in Reducing Aggression of Developmentally Delayed
Pre-schoolers Belonging to Anganwadis of Chandigarh.
|
6060 aggressive and mentally delayed children
with behaviour problems
|
15. |
Balwinder Kaur
|
1992
|
Effect of Differential Reinforcement on
Non-Compliant Behaviour of Preschool children of AWCs in
Chandigarh
|
Initial Beneficiaries 200 children
Training 24 children
|
16. |
Geetika Maini (Ph.D)
|
1993
|
Effectiveness of Integrated Intervention for Enhancement of
Development of Pre-schoolers in Union Territory of
Chandigarh.
|
17 AWCs; MR Children of age 3 – 5 years
Initial Sample: 191 Final 173
|
17. |
UNICEF Sponsored
Project
|
1994
1995
|
Survey of
Community Based Early Intervention Services for pre-school
mentally retarded children in India.
|
All the 516 Institutions of India dealing
with Early Intervention Services surveyed and studied
|
18. |
Bharathi Murthi (Ph.D)
|
1996
|
Psycho-Social Problems of Mental Retardates
and the role of self help groups. (Portage Training Kits
development in Hindi and Punjabi)
|
Non Institutional 242 MR Children & their 242
Mothers
|
19. |
M Kaddesh Ali
|
1997
|
Attitude of Learning Disabled High School
Students towards Studies
|
64 Learning Disabled, Non – LD children
|
20. |
Devinder Bains (Ph.D)
|
1997
|
Differential Impact of Various Remedial Strategies on
Reducing Reading Disability of Dyslexic Primary School
Children.
|
Beneficiaries 209, Training 30 LD children
|
21 |
NCERT Project
|
1997
|
Comparison of various Remedial Strategies in
Reducing language Disabilities of Dyslexic children.
|
307 referred Learning Disabled Children
in the schools of
Chandigarh
|
22. |
Shaminder Kaur
|
1998
|
Survey on Existing Community Based Early
intervention Services for Pre School Children in rural areas
of Chandigarh.
|
50 MR Children
|
23. |
Seema Vij
|
1998
|
Evaluation of the Existing Community Based
Early Intervention Service for Pre-school Children in rural
areas of Chandigarh.
|
25 AWS of Ropar, MR Children 78
|
24. |
Tehal Kohli & David Shearer
|
1998
|
A Cross Cultural Study of Early Intervention
Services in USA & India - Sponsored by University of
Albama, Birmingham, USA.
|
Mothers 300, Pre-school Children 300
|
25. |
Upjeet Kaur
|
1999
|
Impact of Portage Training Through Rural
Camps and Self Held Groups for Enhancing Development of
Young Children in Chandigarh.
|
60 MR Children & 60 Mothers
|
26. |
Tehal Kohli
NCERT Project
|
1999
2000
|
Comparison of various Remedial Strategies in
Reducing Language Disabilities in Dyslexic Children
|
Infants307 Learning Disabled children aged 7
– 10 years
|
27. |
Renu Arora
|
2001
|
Impact of Imparting Health & Nutrition
Education to Mothers on Growth Development of their
Pre-School Children.
|
300 pre-school children and300 mothers of
different schools of Ambala District
|
28. |
Debendra Sethi
|
2004
|
A Comparative Study of Academic Achievement
of Control & Self Concept of Learning Disabled and
Normal Primary School students belonging to different levels
of Intelligence.
|
Initial Sample: 235 children 9 – 10 years
Final: 83 given early intervention
|
29. |
Daman Chauhan
|
2004
|
Effectiveness of Different Strategies for
Remedial Disabilities in Primary School children.
|
Initial Sample: 1574 LD Children
Trained 84 grade 2 & 3
|
30. |
UGC Prof. Emeritus Fellowship Project
conducted by Prof. Tehal Kohli
|
July2005-July2007
|
National Level UGC Project Entitled, Survey
of Existing Early Intervention Programmes and Practices in
India for Better Involvement of Existing Professionals, Para
& Non Professionals for Enhancing Development of Young
Children
|
Surveyed
more than 3000 Institutions of India providing Early
Intervention Services –Institutions for Mentally retarded
Children, Anganwadi Centres, Creches etc. Data was collected
with the help of 4 Questionnaires, i.e., Policy Makers,
Administrators, Teachers and Parents providing Early
Childhood Education. Imparrting Portage Training was a
significant Component of these Tools.
|
32. |
Project
Sponsored By Central Social Welfare Board & Chandigarh
Social Welfare Board. Director :Prof. Tehal Kohli.
Senior Counsellor/ Psychologist-Anju or Taran or Reetu &
Home Advisor, Kiran
Kaushal.
|
Feb.2007-Jan.2008.
|
Project Entitled: Impact of Empowerment of
Disadvantaged Mothers Through Rural Camps, Self-help groups,
Functional Literacy of Nutritional Education & Portage
Training on Enhancement of Development of Young Children
with Developmental Delays
|
This
Project was running in Sikhya-School of Learning in
Sector-46-A.Chandigarh where the deprived/disadvantage
Children from Slums of Catchment Colonies were studying.
Portage training was given to 150 children out of which 33
were DD/Border-line children between 3 to 6 years. The rest
were average children but delayed in one or two areas of
Development.
|
33. |
Project Sponsored by
SOSVA. Director :Prof. Tehal Kohli. Senior Counsellor/
Psychologist-Lakshmi & Home Advisor -Nidhi Mahajan
|
April
2007-March 2008
(1st year)
|
Project Entitled: Centre and Community Based
Early Intervention for Enhancing Development of Young
Children of Rural-Urban AWCs of SAS Tehsil (Mohali)
|
In this
Project, 302 children between 3 to 6 years were given
Portage Training in 9 AWCs of Distt. Mohali. 83 of them were
DD/Border-line Children. The rest were low average. All
belonged to either Rural /Slums of Mohali. Three Training
Workshops were conducted to train the parents and anganwadi
workers. Project was continued for another one year.
|
34. |
Project
Sponsored by
SOSVA.Director :Prof. Tehal Kohli. Senior Counsellor/
Psychologist-Sukhwinder Kaur & Home Advisor - Preeti Nagpal
|
April
2008-March 2009
(2nd year)
|
Project Entitled: Centre and Community Based
Early Intervention for Enhancing Development of Young
Children of Rural-Urban AWCs of SAS Tehsil (Mohali)
|
In this
Project, 302 children in the first year and 300 children in
the second year, between 3 to 6 years were given Portage
Training in 9 AWCs of Distt. Mohali. 79 children in the
first year and 74 children in the second year out of them
were DD/Border-line Children. The rest were low average. All
belong to either Rural /Slums of Mohali. Three training
workshops were conducted every year to train the parents and
anganwadi workers; exhibition of toys was also held at two
places.
|
Current Project |
35. |
Project Sponsored By University Grants
Comission (UGC).
Principal Investigator: Prof. Tehal Kohli.
Co-investigator: Dr. Kuldip Kaur
|
Feb.2009
-Jan.2011
|
“Impact of Material and Personnel development
on behaviourio – educational aspects of children in
inclusive setting at pre-primary and primary school levels”
|
Major
Research Project for developing Identification Tools and
Training Packages for the Training of Pre-Primary & Primary
Teachers for implementing Inclusive Education for different
types of Disabilities.
|