{"id":156733,"date":"2019-12-06T12:06:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T06:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.developmentlogics.org\/article\/what-measures-take-when-you-spot-wandering-childadult"},"modified":"2025-03-28T10:47:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T05:17:41","slug":"what-measures-take-when-you-spot-wandering-child-adult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newtest.nayi-disha.org\/article\/child-safety-protection\/what-measures-take-when-you-spot-wandering-child-adult\/","title":{"rendered":"What measures to take when you spot a wandering child\/adult?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What measures to take when you spot a wandering child\/adult with disabilities? It is entirely possible that a child\/adult with different needs may have trouble with social interaction and communication. Under these situations it becomes your prerogative as a citizen to help ensure the child\/adult&#8217;s safety by contacting the concerned authorities in a timely manner.<\/p>\n<p>Wandering away from home or school is a common problem amongst high risk children and adults (those with intellectual disability\/ cognitive \/ social \/ communication) and can have life-threatening consequence.<\/p>\n<p>Signs to look for:<br \/>\n1.\u00a0Is the child\/adult without an adult companion?<br \/>\n2.\u00a0Is he\/she not making eye contact, unable to speak clearly?<br \/>\n3.\u00a0Does he\/she look disorientated\/restless, in need of help?<\/p>\n<p>What can you do?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Comfort the person, however try to avoid physically touching him\/her<\/li>\n<li>Call 100 for Police or 1098 for Child line (child helpline); wait with the person till help arrives<\/li>\n<li>Take the person to the nearest police station<\/li>\n<li>Take pictures and upload the information on <a href=\"https:\/\/trackthemissingchild.gov.in\/trackchild\/home.php\">https:\/\/trackthemissingchild.gov.in\/trackchild\/home.php<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Call us on +91 98409 31790 or email contact@scanfamily.org<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also check\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nayi-disha.org\/blog\/keeping-children-autism-safe-wandering\/\">keeping children autism safe from wandering<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have questions about Autism, Down Syndrome, ADHD, or other intellectual disabilities, or have concerns about developmental delays in a child, the Nayi Disha team is here to help. For any questions or queries, please contact our FREE Helpline at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send\/?phone=918448448996&amp;text&amp;app_absent=0\"><strong>844-844-8996<\/strong><\/a>. You can call or what&#8217;s app us. Our counselors speak different languages including English, Hindi, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi, Telugu, and Bengali.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: Please note that this article is for information purposes only.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What measures to take when you spot a wandering child\/adult who is differently abled?&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":26494,"featured_media":156734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3218],"tags":[1912],"conditions":[2694,2699,2696,2802,1156,2703,2698,2695,2702,2700,2704],"age_group":[2739,2738,2737,2736],"article_group":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newtest.nayi-disha.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newtest.nayi-disha.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newtest.nayi-disha.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newtest.nayi-disha.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newtest.nayi-disha.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156733"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/newtest.nayi-disha.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293143,"href":"https:\/\/newtest.nayi-disha.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156733\/revisions\/293143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newtest.nayi-disha.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newtest.nayi-disha.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newtest.nayi-disha.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newtest.nayi-disha.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156733"},{"taxonomy":"conditions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newtest.nayi-disha.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/conditions?post=156733"},{"taxonomy":"age_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newtest.nayi-disha.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/age_group?post=156733"},{"taxonomy":"article_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newtest.nayi-disha.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_group?post=156733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}