Tata Interactive Systems to run a Learning Disabilities Forum

Press Release in the UK
May 24, 2006

Global e-learning developer Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) is organising a conference to explore ways of overcoming learning disabilities, particularly among children. The conference – the Tata Interactive Learning Disabilities Forum (TLDF) – is being held in Mumbai, in India, over two days  November 30th and December 1st, and aims to attract learning specialists from all over the world.

“The TLDF is a unique global forum,” said Sanjaya Sharma, TIS’s CEO. “It comprises deans, academicians, publishers, paediatricians and decision-makers in the field of education.

“The Forum allows all of these people to meet and network with each other, share ideas and innovations – and help to change the way students with learning disabilities learn. Hopefully, this should make it easier for those with learning disabilities – not just in India but around the world - to fulfil their potential,” he said.

TIS has first-hand experience of helping young people with learning disabilities through its work with the Learning Disabilities (LD) Clinic at Sion Hospital, in Mumbai, which is one of the largest government hospitals in India. The hospital is also one of the few certified institutions of its kind dedicated to detecting and treating learning disabilities.

In collaboration with the LD Clinic, TIS has developed a book – ‘Brain Teasers’ (ISBN 0-07-061144-0) – which it has planned to distribute free to 800 children as they get certified as LD... The book is designed to nurture the innate creativity of people with learning disabilities and it includes information on learning disabilities, to help parents and carers of those with these disabilities.

Part of the Tata Group, India’s premier business house – a conglomerate of 93 operating companies which generates annual revenues of $22bn and contributes some 3 per cent of India’s gross domestic product – TIS has some 16 years experience of producing innovative, cutting-edge learning solutions for the corporate, education and government sectors around the world. It has over 350 clients, including many of the major publishers of education materials, including Oxford University Press, McGraw-Hill, Pearson Education, Hodder Headline, Granada Learning and Harcourt.