Special Needs

The year was 1836, when a brave and curious girl named Elizabeth Blackwell challenged thousands of years of belief that women were not as smart as men. In...

“Another girl of 5 years was sexually abused in a leading school by his cab driver.” It was just another news sitting in the left corner of a...

I know this post can get me in a lot of trouble because one, I have never been a politically correct person and two this is a very...

Attended a seminar on " down syndrome, (more like you than different )holistic approach"in chanakyapuri, new delhi. This was first of a kind in the capital and though...

In the journey to accept our special needs gift from heavens above, we generally forget that we have a 'typical' child, the one who is going through the...

 This guest post is written by Kavitha Sivakumar. Kavitha currently lives in USA and has a son with Down Syndrome. She is working as a  CPA and is...

The first and most essential adaptation is determining what information is most critical for students to learn and adjusting the instructional emphasis of the program. Apart from this,...

Down syndrome or no down syndrome, reading is one skill we all parents want to instil in our children. Books being your best friend, it is something that...

This piece of writing helped me immensely. When I was broke, sad and over stricken with grief, I used to read this and this used to give me lot of...

Mom, look at those kids, they don’t want Aarshia to play with them.” My son shook my arm while I was blissfully enjoying my book by the pool...

When I first read about Karishma on Natalie Hale’s page, I was speechless. She is extremely beautiful and quite a composed young woman and it was not the...

Communication and speech remain one of the most delayed milestone for children with Down Syndrome. The desire to communicate and being understood by others is inherent in all...