The Society for Rehabilitation of Cognitive and Communicative Disorders (SRCCD) is a Charitable Society registered under the Travancore-Cochin Literary, Scientific and Charitable Societies Act 1955. SRCCD has established the ICCONS at Thiruvananthapuram and Shoranur to achieve in its goals - to promote scientific research, clinical services and advanced education and training in the field of communicative and cognitive neuroscience and disabilities. The Shoranur campus is located in 8 acres of land and has several buildings. The Trivandrum campus is located in a 3 acre land leased by the Government of Kerala. In the past 25 years ICCONS have grown considerably and had been providing high quality services to the disabled children and adults with the decisive financial support from the Government of Kerala.
Institute for Communicative and Cognitive Neurosciences (ICCONS) is a pioneer Institution under Govt. of Kerala for the comprehensive management, rehabilitation, education, research and development in the field of developmental and acquired disabilities from infancy to elderly such as Autism Spectrum Disorders(ASD), Learning Disability, Mental Retardation, Cerebral Palsy, Single and Multiple Congenital anomalies, Epilepsy, Post Stroke and Post traumatic syndrome, Degenerative Disorders affecting the nervous system.
The center gives specific emphasis to conditions that interfere with cognitive, language and motor functions. A multidisciplinary team consisting of Neurologists, Pediatricians, ENT specialists, Audiologists, Speech Language Pathologists, Linguists, Clinical Psychologists, Physiotherapists and Special Educators are involved in the rehabilitative services provided by the Institution. The Institute is providing inpatient and outpatient services, rehabilitation programs like speech therapy, behavioural training, physiotherapy and linguistics training to the above-mentioned group of patients on a regular basis.
ICCONS consists of
• ICCONS hospital
• ICCONS Rehabilitation Wing
• ICCONS college of paramedical sciences
• ICCONS Special school
• ICCONS advanced centre for neurometabolomics, proteomics and genetics
The ICCONS Shoranur has an inpatient ward with Neuro-ICU for emergency services and advanced fully automated Neuro-endocrine and metabolic lab & electro-physiology lab ready for patient service. The Centre is giving treatment to children, adult and the elderly with various acquired and developmental disabilities like autism, mental retardation, cerebral palsy, single and multiple congenital anomalies post stroke and post traumatic syndrome, adult aphasia, dementia etc.
ICCONS will be recognised as the premier institution for quality purviews in communicative and cognitive neuroscience & non-communicable neurological disorders nationally and internationally.
We will achieve this:
• By providing compassionate ethical accessible quality healthcare that exceeds the needs and expectations of our patients and their families.
• Through research we will develop novel strategies for the early direction, prevention and management of medical conditions.
• By providing a good work environment that motivates and encourages commitment in our staff.
• By enabling leadership in education and communication that improves the health of the people.
• By collaborating with national and international scientific communities engaged in mission of similar nature.
The mission of ICCONS is embodied in a summery statements, which is as follows:
• To provide unique and quality healthcare to developmental and acquired cognitive and communicative disorders as well as other non-communicable neurological disorders.
• Care across various gender and age through development of specific strategies systems encompassing primary, secondary and tertiary care, and not geographically confined to existing hospital facility.
• To develop new services, technologies and remedial measures through research and development and carryout assigned programs and missions that would demonstrate a model for all developed and developing nations.
Institutional Ethics committee issues policy on medical ethics. Review, evaluate, and approve cases for ethical dilemmas, terminal care, any other potential conflict of ethical issues and Medical policy and practice
We, at ICCONS
• Believe that quality and safety are integral to our mission and a responsibility of all staff.
• Provide compassionate, ethical, accessible, safe and high quality care that meets the needs or expectations of our patients, their families and others whom we serve.
• Provide an environment of quality care that promotes patient and staff safety practices as well as a culture of continuous quality improvement.
• Provide a safe work environment which fosters professionalism,motivation and commitment in our staff.
• Enable leadership in health and education that improves the physical and mental wellbeing of the patient and their families.
The activities of the Institution are controlled by a Governing body and executive committee constituted by order of Govt. of Kerala and comprising of Ministers of Health & Social Welfare, the Secretaries to Govt., Health, Finance, Education, Social Welfare and Head of the Departments of Health Services and Medical Education services, eminent social scientists and academicians. The Director of the Institute according to the MOU is a Neurologist having outstanding contribution in the field of Cognitive and Communicative Neuro Sciences.
ICCONS Invites students who wish to apply for the fellowships
1.INSPIRE Fellowship to pursue research careers. For details: https://www.online-inspire.gov.in
2.SERB National Postdoctoral Fellow For details: https://serbonline.in/SERB/npdf
ICCONS has excellent lab facilities, extramural projects, and scientific experts to serve as a host institute for the aforementioned schemes.
Interested and eligible students should contact us via email at director@iccons.co.in
Internship/Training are provided in the following disciplines:
o Clinical/ Rehabilitation Psychology
o Speech and language Pathology
o Biotechnology and Genetics
o Physiotherapy
o Special Education
o Clinical Linguistics