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3R opens a centre that aims to help those with SLDs With the end of the academic year just a couple of months away, schools have already begun sounding out parents of children with specific learning disabilities to look for other schools for their children. Naturally, that has them worried. Some of them have managed to reach out to Blink Foundation and 3R Research & Technology, in a desperate measure to see if anything can be done at all. “If children with learning difficulties study in schools that are not inclusive or institutions that refuse to pursue necessary interventions, they are often asked to leave at the end of the school year,” says Arun Fernandez , managing director, Blink Foundation, and 3R Research & Technology. 3R inaugurated a new learning centre at Nungambakkam on Monday and Mr. Arun, who was diagnosed with dyslexia when he was 13, said that the centre aims to create a better learning environment for children with Specific Learning Disabilities (SLDs...

Drug Treatment Clinic at the institute is the first to be set up in south India The Drug Treatment Clinic (DTC) at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH), Chennai is all set to provide Methadone Maintenance Treatment for opioid-dependent patients. The treatment, which is aimed at managing opioid use disorders through harm reduction using methadone, will be run on the lines of directly observed treatment short-course; patients will take the syrup preparation in the presence of a qualified psychiatrist at the clinic. Established under the National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC) scheme, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, the DTC at IMH was the first one to be established in south India under the scheme. It extends treatment for all kinds of substance abuse and its related disorders. This included addiction to alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, inhalants and sleeping pills; opioid abuse being the newly added target for treatment considering the large-scale abuse ...