At ChangeInkk, we’re working to ensure that individuals with specific learning disabilities have equal access to opportunities from cradle to career. Our work ranges from empowering parents and educators to help them better support individuals with SLDs, to collaborating with policy makers, employers and educational institutions to create inclusive environments that allow individuals with SLDs to thrive and achieve their full potential.
who understand the needs of students with SLDs, can identify them early and have the tools needed to successfully manage inclusive classrooms. This will impact over 5 million students from classes K to 12.
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Meet our army, the most passionate supporters of ChangeInkk's mission.
In November 2020, we signed an MOU with Bihar Education Project Council to support the Department of Education, Govt. of Bihar and its key institutional partners (including SCERT, DIETs, Bihar State Board & Samagra Shiksha, etc.) in planning and implementation of a holistic inclusive education program. The interventions will strengthen teacher capacity to identify and address the learning needs of children with specific learning disabilities and improve learning outcomes by creating a supportive and accommodative learning environment.
In July 2022, we signed an MOU with the Nagaland State Education Department to establish the country’s first Centre of Excellence for Neurodiversity in Kohima. Through this partnership we will support the state in mainstreaming inclusion of students with learning disabilities, by establishing enabling policies, building teacher capacity, strengthening pedagogy and curriculum to support inclusive learning environments, while developing UDL based teaching learning materials. The Centre of Excellence will take a collaborative approach, to ensure that students with disabilities are mainstreamed across grades K to 12s.
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We collaborated with iSaksham to sensitize educators on SLD's and trained them on making classrooms inclusive for children with neurodiversity. If you are an educator or a parent of a neurodiverse child, get in touch with us to hold a session in your or your child's school.
We are supporting SCERT Bihar in capacity building of in-service teachers, and DIET faculty to help identify and address needs of students with SLDs. The interventions will aid improvement in learning outcomes by creating a supportive and accommodative learning environment.
We are supporting SCERT Nagaland to develop Universal Design for Learning based curriculum and Teaching Learning Materials, from grades k-8. For interventions in Foundational Literacy and Numeracy we have collaborated with Sol’s ARC to develop curriculum that address not only numeracy and literacy skills but also working memory. We are further supporting to build teacher capacities and sensitizing the different cells within SCERT to aid an inclusive classroom environment that helps improve learning outcomes of all students.
The Nagaland Board of School Education has done immense work in providing exam accommodations for students with Specific Learning Disabilities. We are proud to support the board in further spreading awareness regarding the same, and sensitizing school heads, and teachers affiliated to the board. We have supported the board to develop an SLD chatbot, an online helpdesk answering all questions SLD related on their website - https://nbsenl.edu.in .
We are supporting the ICL group of schools - Turbhe and Vashi, in building inclusive classrooms for students with learning disabilities. The interventions include sensitization of teachers and parents, screening of students to identify those ‘at risk’ and exhibiting signs of having an SLD and building a special education program.
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We collaborated with iSaksham to sensitize educators on SLD's and trained them on making classrooms inclusive for children with neurodiversity. If you are an educator or a parent of a neurodiverse child, get in touch with us to hold a session in your or your child's school.
We are supporting SCERT Bihar in capacity building of in-service teachers, and DIET faculty to help identify and address needs of students with SLDs. The interventions will aid improvement in learning outcomes by creating a supportive and accommodative learning environment.
We are supporting SCERT Nagaland to develop Universal Design for Learning based curriculum and Teaching Learning Materials, from grades k-8. For interventions in Foundational Literacy and Numeracy we have collaborated with Sol’s ARC to develop curriculum that address not only numeracy and literacy skills but also working memory. We are further supporting to build teacher capacities and sensitizing the different cells within SCERT to aid an inclusive classroom environment that helps improve learning outcomes of all students.
The Nagaland Board of School Education has done immense work in providing exam accommodations for students with Specific Learning Disabilities. We are proud to support the board in further spreading awareness regarding the same, and sensitizing school heads, and teachers affiliated to the board. We have supported the board to develop an SLD chatbot, an online helpdesk answering all questions SLD related on their website - https://nbsenl.edu.in .
We are supporting the ICL group of schools - Turbhe and Vashi, in building inclusive classrooms for students with learning disabilities. The interventions include sensitization of teachers and parents, screening of students to identify those ‘at risk’ and exhibiting signs of having an SLD and building a special education program.
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Sensitisation workshop for SCERT Bihar – Nov 28-29 and Dec 9, 2022
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Mainstreaming inclusion across work of all Education Stakeholders in Nagaland – 15th Nov, 2022
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Creating inclusive learning environments with SCERT Nagaland – November 14, 2022
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MJC Workshop - November 5, 2022
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District Master Teacher training in Jamui, Bihar – 8thSept 2022
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General Teacher, Special Educator & Resource Persons & Teacher Training in Jamui, Bihar – 3rdAug 2022
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Capacity building workshop for for SchoolNet – July 28, 2022
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Sensitization Workshop for Teachers in Kohima, Nagaland – 25th, 26thJul 2022
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SLD sensitisation workshop hosted by CHiPS, Raipur
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Capacity building of RT/RP/BRP(IE) in the context of Cross-disability – June 25-26, 2022
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PMeVidya- NCERT & CEIT
Live Interaction on PMeVIDYA : Teaching Learning Interventions for Inclusive Classrooms- June 22, 2022
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Teacher and Parent Sensitization Workshop ICL Schools, Navi Mumbai – 20th& 21stJune
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iSaksham Edu-Leader Training, Jamui, Bihar – 17thJun 2022
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AIWEFA- Reflections: Voices from families, schools and the SLD- 30th April 2022 (11.30 am – 1.30 pm)
National Webinar Series on Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) #Webinar 5
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PMeVidya- NCERT & CEIT Live Interaction on PMeVIDYA: "Dealing with Dyslexia" 2021 Oct 27, 2021
Live Interaction on PMeVIDYA: "Dealing with Dyslexia"
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We have partnered with NERD Tools Foundation, to develop screening tool in multiple languages to accelerate early identification of SLDS for individuals aged 6 to 18 years. The tool assesses literacy, numeracy and working memory abilities and helps identify areas of interventions to improve learning outcomes.
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Sensitisation workshop for SCERT Bihar – Nov 28-29 and Dec 9, 2022
ChangeInkk served as a training partner for SCERT in Bihar on November 28-29 and December 9, 2022, to sensitize and train about 194 new DIET faculty members in Patna on Specific Learning Disabilities (SLDs). The two-hour sessions covered topics like understanding SLDs, Dyslexic Thinking, RPwD Act, Screening & Diagnosis for these individuals, multisensory instruction as well as different activities to understand the disability with clarity.
Mainstreaming inclusion across work of all Education Stakeholders in Nagaland – 15th Nov, 2022
A workshop on Mainstreaming Inclusion across the work of all education stakeholders in Nagaland was held at the Directorate of Education where Changeinkk Foundation presented a sensitization session on Specific Learning Disabilities and how inclusion can be mainstreamed by all stakeholders. Stress was given on coordinating efforts to maximize inputs. All stakeholders shared insights on the current status of their projects with each other. It appears that this level of coordination has happened for the first time. There was keen interest in mainstreaming inclusion.
Creating inclusive learning environments with SCERT Nagaland – November 14, 2022
The session presented by Changeinkk sensitised all SCERT teams to not have inclusion as an afterthought, but rather embed it from the get-go. The meeting was attended. The ongoing TLM development work with SCERT-FLN team was discussed as an example of inclusive practices already being adopted by the board to make content accessible.
MJC Workshop - November 5, 2022
ChangeInkk partnered with MJC, Coimbatore to organize a workshop on November 5, 2022, for over 176 B.Ed. and M.Ed. students on inclusion of children with SLDs in mainstream classrooms. It was an enriching day long experience for the participants with a keynote session by Nandini Chatterjee Singh who covered the science behind SLDs, insightful panel discussions by parents, individuals with SLDs, experts in the field and researchers, as well as sensitization by the ChangeInkk team on SLDs, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and technology accessibility for these individuals.
District Master Teacher training in Jamui, Bihar – 8thSept 2022
ChangeInkk has collaborated with Jamui district to develop master trainers in SLD, to enable mainstreaming of children with SLDS in the classroom. This training workshop was attended by Shri Paras Kumar, Program Officer & Smt. Seema Kumari, DPO from Jamui. The focus of the workshop was to build awareness about SLDs, explain multisensory learning approach for these students and introduce the process of screening.
General Teacher, Special Educator & Resource Persons & Teacher Training in Jamui, Bihar – 3rdAug 2022
Jamui is an aspirational district in Bihar, as identified by Niti Ayog, Government of India. It ranks amongst the lowest performing regions in India, as the human development indicators. In collaboration with the District Administration and the Bihar Education Project Council-Jamui, ChangeInkk conducted a training workshop on SLDs for general education teachers, resource persons and special educators in the district, on how children with SLDs can be identified early and mainstreamed in the classroom. It was attended by representatives from across all blocks. Shri Avaneesh Kumar Singh, District Magistrate and Collector, Shri Paras Kumar, Program Officer, Jamui also attended training.
Capacity building workshop for for SchoolNet – July 28, 2022
The ChangeInkk Foundation conducted an online awareness and sensitization session on specific learning disabilities (SLDs) with the core team of SchoolNet. It was a 90-minute interactive session attended by over 80 members from their administrative and leadership teams on July 28, 2022. Our organization covered the following topics during this session:
a.Understanding Specific Learning Disabilities (SLDs)
b.Identifying how it manifests in individuals
c.Exploring the strengths and struggles of individuals with SLDs
d.Screening & Diagnosis
e.Learning interventions & accommodations to support the needs of individuals with SLDs
f.Creating support networks, with a focus on working with parents, educators & community members
Sensitization Workshop for Teachers in Kohima, Nagaland – 25th, 26thJul 2022
In collaboration with the Directorate of Education, Government of Nagaland, ChangeInkk conducted a workshop for public and private school teachers on Inclusive learning for children with SLDs in Kohima, Nagaland. Following the workshop, the Nagaland State Education Department and ChangeInkk also signed an MOU to establish a State Resource Centre for Children with SLDs in Kohima.
SLD sensitisation workshop hosted by CHiPS, Raipur
Noopur Jhunjhunwala, co-founder of the ChangeInkk Foundation was one of the speakers who presented at the SLD sensitisation workshop hosted by Chhattisgarh Infotech Promotion Society (CHiPs), Raipur. 2640+ teachers attended the virtual session from 156 centers across the state.
Capacity building of RT/RP/BRP(IE) in the context of Cross-disability – June 25-26, 2022
ChangeInkk Foundation served as an expert in Specific Learning Disabilities (SLDs) during a cross-disability workshop conducted by the Bihar Education Project Council (BEPC), Patna from June 25-26, 2022, in Patna, Bihar. The sessions were facilitated by a group of experts – Dr. Anita Julka, Ms. Aloka Guha, Dr. Sujata Bhan and Mr. S.S. Misra. The two-day workshop had the resource teachers, the experts and the ChangeInkk Foundation team members hold meaningful discussions around the needs of the field, module design framework and contents of the module that BEPC will be creating based on feedback from this workshop.
PMeVidya- NCERT & CEIT
To further the cause of equitable and inclusive education as envisaged by the National Education Policy 2020, Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET) and National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) organised a live interactive session on PM eVidya platform titled 'Teaching Learning Interventions for Inclusive Classrooms: Building Synergies' on June 22, 2022. Speakers Dr. Shyamala Dalvi (Learning Disability Consultant) and Noopur Jhunjhunwala (Co-founder and Trustee at ChangeInkk Foundation) answered queries from parents and educators during the session. The key takeaway from the discussion was that each stakeholder in the child's ecosystem plays a vital role in their development. Consequently, the impact of interventions for children with Specific Learning Disabilities like Dyslexia can be maximised only if all stakeholders work harmoniously towards that goal.
Teacher and Parent Sensitization Workshop ICL Schools, Navi Mumbai – 20th& 21stJune
ICL Education Society runs schools and colleges to provide quality education for students from marginalized communities in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra. Changeinkk conducted a 2-day workshop for teachers and parents respectively at ICL Schools in Vashi & Turbhe. The capacity building workshop sensitized them to adopt and advocate dyslexia friendly techniques in the child's life and make spaces more inclusive. On day2, parents attended an ice-breaker workshop that got the conversation around SLDs going, where parents shared some powerful personal stories too. This has been followed by screening of their students (in collaboration with NERD Tools Foundation) to identify ‘at risk’ students exhibiting signs of having an SLD. Currently, longer term interventions are underway in the school.
iSaksham Edu-Leader Training, Jamui, Bihar – 17thJun 2022
iSaksham builds community edu-leaders through its 2-year fellowship program in aspirational areas of Bihar. These young women improve their subject knowledge, learn modern pedagogy tools and impart quality education to children by catering to multi-level learning needs in government schools. ChangeInkk sensitized and trained their cohort of edu-leaders on Specific Learning Disabilities (SLDs) and multisensory approach to help them make classrooms more inclusive.
AIWEFA- Reflections: Voices from families, schools and the SLD- 30th April 2022 (11.30 am – 1.30 pm)
As part of the National Webinar Series on Specific Learning Disabilities, the All-India Women's Education Fund Association (AIWEFA) organised a panel discussion titled 'Reflections: Voices from families, schools and the SLD' on April 30, 2022. Speakers included Dr. Anuradha Joshi, Principal at Sardar Patel Vidyalaya; Arun Fernandez, Founder at DLearners and Noopur Jhunjhunwala, Founder and Trustee at ChangeInkk Foundation. The discussion was moderated by Dr. Renu Malaviya, Secretary of the AIWEFA and Professor of the Department of Education at Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi. The speakers helped bring together the perspectives of the families of learners with SLDs, along with those of teachers and other key stakeholders in the academic ecosystem. To learn more, watch the discussion at National Webinar Series on Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) #Webinar 5
PMeVidya- NCERT & CEIT Live Interaction on PMeVIDYA: "Dealing with Dyslexia" 2021 Oct 27, 2021
On the occasion of Dyslexia Awareness Month, under the aegis of the Ministry of Education, Government of India, the Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET) and National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) organised a three day National Webinar Series on Dyslexia. On October 27, 2021, as part of this initiative, a live discussion was held on the PM eVidya platform. Speakers included Dr. Shyamala Dalvi, Learning Disability Consultant from Mumbai; Noopur Jhunjhunwala, Co-founder and Trustee at ChangeInkk Foundation; and Masarrat Khan, CEO of the Maharashtra Dyslexia Association. The discussion emphsised the role of early detection and appropriate accommodations in the life of a dyslexic learner, and discussed the various teaching strategies which can be employed in schools for remedial instruction.