SGCP - Self-help Group for Celebral Palsy/Nepal

Special Education Programme (SEP) was introduced in 1993 with the objectives of imparting knowledge and skills to CP children in the areas of basic and primary education so that they can live independently with improved quality of life.

The programme has emphasized towards cognitive development processes of children. Similarly, increased weightage is given to individual work, group work, communication, life skills, creative activities, physiotherapy and play. In this programme, each child has her/his own individual plan based on own abilities and capacities.

Cerebral Palsy Rehabilitation Centre is the key programme of SGCP. This Centre provides emotional support and practical skills and advice to the parents of children with cp. Parents of cp cases are helped with empathy to provide support and technical help to their dependents on a long term basis.

The services provided at CPRC are –

• Counseling on cp to parents.
• Medical assessment and counseling by paediatric doctors
• Therapeutic services –Physiotherapy, Speech therapy and Occupational therapy
• Distribution of medicine to epileptic cases
• Teaching of therapy skill to parents
• Advice on associated handicaps of the cases.

Out Reach Programme is essentially a home based programme for cerebral palsy afflicted children in the outer districts which have no access to rehabilitative services. It is implemented through the home–visitors trained in basic rehabilitation therapies focused on cerebral palsy. They teach basic therapy skills and stimulation techniques to the parents. This progrmme is effective in 13 districts of the country. Under this programme SGCP serves over 600 cases annually.