In today’s fast-moving world and its dynamic culture, as soon as a child is born, he/she is inadvertently compelled by society to succeed in all the disciplines and achieve everything with a gold medal around the neck.
However, we at Smiles, serve with a vision to achieve equity in education through a research-based approach to curriculum development, implementation, and advocacy.
The idea is not to educate the child for trophies and medals, instead, to make him/her independent in their daily needs, make them understand the values and their roles in society. Education has become a subject matter of anxiety for most children today.
We aim at making the child comfortable with the environment and mentoring in such a way that he/she is free from the distress and pessimism one may have about education.
Smiles Development Center is one of a kind institute that caters to children with special needs and moderate disabilities within the age group of 1.5 years to 15 years.
There are many children who aren’t born with any biological disorders yet wrestle with their primary development and comprehensive growth due to environmental factors.
At Smiles, our optimum goal is to shape every such special child into an independent learner. In order to ensure that each child is treated exclusively and served in line with his/her needs, we offer 3 kinds of programs:
As quoted by a well-known cultural anthropologist, Margaret Mead, “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” We firmly believe that children are magical souls who are supposed to be unfolded in a beautiful way, in a way that brings the best out of their potential. As soon a child enters Smiles, our first step is to observe the child, his/her actions, habits, and practices. Once we get an understanding of the child’s conduct, unlike most therapy centers, we work on a bespoke program that will cater to the child’s explicit requirements.
To begin with, we focus on fundamentals such as: