The Madhuram Narayanan Centre (MNC) for Exceptional Children’s ‘moving ahead’ programme enables children with developmental delays to
continue school education in special and mainstream schools after completing the early intervention programme.
On completion of the intervention programme, the children are able to follow instructions in English and Tamil, eat independently, play with friends, give direction to teachers and fellow students about their needs and spell three-letter words. Over the last four years, 19 students have been successfully enrolled in mainstream schools. It was a graduation day of a different kind indeed at MNC on 31 March 2010 when 10 students moved into mainstream schools and four into special schools.