The Indian Council for Mental Health(ICMH) is an ISO 9001:2015 certified, not for profit Organization based in Mumbai since 1953, striving to achieve professional excellence in all its activities. We are an organization that devotes its energies in caring for intellectually disabled students through our Special School situated in Nerul (Navi Mumbai).

Skills and Ability School, Nerul under the aegis of the Indian Council for Mental Health, is one of the pioneer schools providing specialized education to children with multiple intellectual disabilities to facilitate their holistic academic and skill development for many years. We have a clean and well maintained infrastructure and a staff of trained and competent professionals working towards this goal by providing specialized interventions and care. Motor Skills, Cognitive Skills, Social Skills, Communication Skills, Activities of Daily Living (Self-Help Skills) and Digital Learning (Computer Training) are the six major areas for which Individualized Education Program (IEP) is designed and worked upon for each student. Life Skills are also a part of the IEP which aims at enhancing practical applications of different skills and social concepts learnt in the classroom. We also have a team of occupational therapists, physiotherapists, counselors and speech therapists to complement the academic and physical pursuits at the School. We provide specialized training in academics for Class I to Class IX and prepare them for Class X and Class XII board examinations under the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS).
We also have a well-equipped Vocational Section where individuals are taught a trade in the hope that they can earn a living. We are training students in specific job skills in the areas of Hospitality, Beauty and Wellness, Housekeeping, Office Skills, and Entrepreneurship. Career Planning Assessment is conducted for each student wherein his/her interests, abilities and skills are identified to select the most suitable profession.
We have always been very innovative in the various strategies that we adopt and implement in order to provide the best qualitative services within the disability sector. We conducted various activities like awareness campaigns, community integration programs, workshops to educate society, principals, teachers, parents from the School, and other regular, and special schools in Navi Mumbai, about the need for and the importance of special education.
To ensure that each student’s individual needs are properly catered to, the student teacher ratio is maintained at 6:1. The students are encouraged to participate in all co-curricular and extracurricular activities. These include educational visits, excursions, educational camps, sport events, competitions, and cultural programs.

This helps in enhancing their personality and making them self-reliant as a member of society. Children with special needs show greater learning when techniques like task analysis, peer teaching, cooperative learning, learning corners and multisensory approach are used.

Appeal

The Indian Council for Mental Health (ICMH), an NGO with 70 years of quality service has been willingly accepting the challenge of helping the special with intellectual disabilities to gain their rightful place in society. At ICMH, the emphasis is on education in the best interests of special education for overall development. It has been a constant endeavor of ICMH to provide the best and latest techniques of education to special children. At ICMH we integrate through education, children with intellectual disabilities, into society by eradicating the stigma attached to them.
To expand the reach by offering a unique combination of services most suitable to individual needs to the maximum possible extent through the commitment of all to the core values of the Organization.