Special Needs

No one is ever quite ready; everyone is always caught off guard. Parenthood chooses you. And you open your eyes, look at what you’ve got, say” Oh, my...

Sending their child with special needs to a mainstream school with his same age peers is a dream for many parents. In the last few decades governments all...

  “My parents are deceased and I am taking care of my older mentally disabled sister. she's 40 years old. Truth be told, I don't want to take care...

Do you ever wish your child's disability to go away? No matter how much you 'understand' and 'know' about the reality of your child's disability and her limitations,...

Last week, my brother got married and, with him I once again got to live the celebrations that we all Indians give so much importance to. Those who...

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,...

Being  a special needs mother isn't the best thing in the world as propagated by many but it's not the worst either. It's somewhere in the middle! Like...

  This beautiful and heartfelt post Is written by Aswathi Dinil Sanker. Aswathi is a dear friend and a fellow mother. She is  the mother of two adorable children,...

Time and again we come across incidents which disgust us, make us angry and outrageous about the discrimination that still happens at the hands of some people, who...

This post is special for many reasons! This post is special because it is about the shared journey of mothers of children with Down syndrome across continents. It is...

It was the orientation day in my daughter’s new class, something where all parents officially meet the new teachers for the first time for introductions. I was totally...

Another beautiful guest post from a dear friend and a fellow parent Sonali Barshilia.  Sonali got commissioned into Indian Army in Sep 1999 and took voluntary retirement in...