Workshop – Understanding and Helping Children with Learning Difficulties

Workshop – Understanding and Helping Children with Learning Difficulties by Rev. Dr. Ajoy Fernandes sdb.

Don Bosco School Known as Indian English Academy School (IEAS) in Kuwait is celebrating 10 years of its existence in the Gulf region; to mark its presence here in Kuwait a lot of different events are being organized one of them was to invite the guest speaker from Mumbai.

Fr. Ajoy Fernandes, sdb a Masters in Philosophy and Theology and Doctorate in Clinical Psychology conducted a workshop on ‘Understanding and Helping Children with Learning Difficulties’ on 12th September from 8.00am to 1.00pm for 16 Indian Schools in Kuwait, out of which 15 attended with a total strength of 55 participants both Teachers and Counselors. The workshop started with a brief introduction by Carmen Panikker IEAS Counselor thereafter Fr. Bleany Pinto the Parish Priest of Salmiya Parish led us in prayer and Fr. Francis Kharjia Director of IEAS welcomed Fr. Ajoy Fernandes. He immediately started imparting his knowledge and expertise on the subject through a power point presentation with great enthusiasm and clarity in simple easy to follow steps which kept all us engrossed and captured our attention throughout the programme. Group discussions were energizing and enriching for the participants. The Thankyou speech was addressed by our very own ‘Lion of Kuwait’, Fr. Lionel Braganza the Principal of IEAS.

Teachers and Counselors were very much appreciative of near to perfect hosting of such an interesting programme which is the need of the hour for our school children. They expressed that they felt enriched with the inputs of the workshop and went home with some valuable material (handouts) provided by Fr. Ajoy Fernandes for future reference.

Thankyou Fr. Ajoy Fernandes you stirred up our hearts when you got emotional and had tears in your eyes while speaking of yourself as a dyslexic person.

GOD BLESS FR. AJOY FERNANDES !