Make my Choice workshop will conducted on 18-19 May 2021 @ Zoom Meeting

‘Make My Choice’ Workshop

Make my Choice Workshop is designed for the people with intellectual disabilities and developmental delays to recognize their choices and consider their decisions in day to day life chores.

Make my choice workshops are divided in three steps, after completion of the step 1 the students will be eligible for the next step towards.

Step-1: Listen to Me!

Step-2: My career choice

Step-3: Towards self-advocacy

In this workshop we will give them a chance to talk about what is important and what it takes to successfully support him/her at home, at work and in the community. At Make My Choice Workshop children and young people with intellectual disabilities and developmental delays can and will make their needs and wishes known and contribute to their community, given appropriate support and a receptive environment.

This proposal is for Step-1 Listen to Me! Workshop

Step-1, Listen to Me! Workshop is a groundwork to think about life and the importance of belongingness with family and community. The workshop has six hours duration. Throughout the workshop participants will be assisted by the proficient volunteers to listen and record the choices and information in a resources book. These information are really useful to start the career planning process of the participants.

More than 200 people with intellectual disabilities and developmental delays have been participated in Listen to Me! Workshop and improved their domestic and social skills. They have started making decision in everyday life for food, games, clothes, lovingly people, subject choice, favourite visiting place, jobs, dialogue for salary, travelling independently and choose their life partner etc. Many of them have also improved their quality of life in selection of appropriate cloths, grooming properly, being presentable to handle the interview and new situations.

Parents have noticed that their son/daughter is no longer dependent as the skills of understanding option and making choices has improved progressively, after this workshop. The positive behaviours of the participants have become superior in maintaining independent living and stopped unsolicited demands.

The school teachers have also observed that the students has developed further perfection in learning new skills; like shopping, selection of appropriate items as per need, valuing the money etc. The information of resource book developed during Listen to Me! Workshop is now a guide for various students also demonstrates personal affiliation in the family. This workshop has unlocked the feelings of participants being self confident.

Make my choice is a programme in which students with disabilities are taught how to make their choice, in which they are taught to make their own choice and they learn to make their desire, interest and choice. We Conduct Make My Choice workshop for the high support needed for people with disability. Under this workshop we involve many activities like listening to the song of your choice, going to the place of your choice, reading, making friends of your choice, etc.The best impact of this workshop is imparting the new change in a very entertaining way.It makes them very happy.Quality of life planned workshops regularly for people with severe disabilities. These workshops are based on choice,challenges,consideration and decision towards career planning and self advocacy.

Make my Choice (MMC) workshops being conducted under the Manovikas Institute in India. MMC is focused on helping disabled people learning to make choices and how to choose the best for themselves with their workshops funded by charities and supported by volunteers from around India.

Mentally challenged people often don’t get taken seriously when they want to make a choice for themselves. This is certainly wrong but accepted in the society like a norm because people believe that those with disabilities rarely have the sight and wisdom to make a beneficial choice for themselves. This is exactly what the Make My Choice workshops being conducted under the banner of Manovikas in India seek to change for people with disabilities.

Make my Choice (MMC) encouraged the disabled people to develop his/her insight and get skills to make their own choices and have enlightened them with an insight to make the best choices for themselves.

The main motto of these workshops is to develop more skills in people with disabilities so that they can live a life that is somewhat closer to a normal life with normal choices.

1 :- To create awareness.

• Make society aware about disability by using media, do play, nukad natak etc. to gain attention of the society and enhance their retention and take their feedback.

• Spread awareness in society by using Media, pamphlets, progress rate card, videos, video player etc.

• Hire experts for preparing stakeholders for doing nukad natak, play etc. for presenting the stimulus.

• Presenting the stimulation and material by using resources like team for play, space, certification, public , pamphlate, media, projectors, laptop/computer, money and hire experts to to present them.

2 :- To find the students with disability Students with disability.

• Hire team to gain attention, enhance retention and provide feedback for getting the students with disability by involve internal and external team.

• Gain attention of the students with disability and enhance retention to create awareness about their choice by the team to spread awareness.

3 :- To identify the choice of the students with disability.

• Interview of the child is done to know the choices of the students with disability

• Interview of the parents and teachers to identify the likes and dislikes of the students with disability.

• Observe the child to know the interest students with disability.

4 :- To provide quality curriculum.

• A good quality of curriculum which is time efficient, easy to learn, students with disability appropriate, attractive or joyful, pictorial, simple story to gain attention and provide feedback.

• For more practical provide practical lab and instruments to present the stimulus.

• To present stimulus include smart classes in the curriculum by the use of projector, computer or laptop.

• Hire experts to gain attention of the students with disability and implementation of curriculum which approach to inclusion.

• Resources like pictures, videos, practical room, resource room practical instruments should be appropriate to present the stimulation.

• Assess the student with disability

• Identify the choice of the student with disability.

• Students with disability need assessment and programme plan.

• Need of Research plan and publication strategy for awareness.

• For a Quality of curriculum stakeholder need assessment, program plan, research plan and instructional design.

• Listen about the interest of the students with disability.

• Develop different choice level of individual students with disability.

• Students with disability choose their employable skills.

• Students with disability ready to go to inclusive school.

• Debate on the advantages and disadvantages of students with disability’s choice work.

• Child/students with disability will start responding for their future.

• Parent support their child.

• Students with disability devote their participation in doing their work of choice.

• Students with disability start pursuing about themselves.

• Students with disability able to seek in different dimensions.

• Students with disability able to follow the rules.

• Parent of students with disability will secure about his life.

• Society will able to accept and value them.

• Get opportunity among other siblings.

• Students with disability will start involving in families.

• After going to the inclusion students with disability able to adjust in between peer group.