By -

 So true! This post is by Hari Srinivasan, a Ph.d. neuroscience student at Vanderbilt. Some very interesting pointers have been articulated by Hari. The complexity of the disability, inadequacies in autism research, stressing the importance of inclusive reserach participation, instances where abilities are oversimplified or not adequately understood, reconsidering research methodologies.

Please read this informative post.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular Posts

Dance Drama and GFCF Cooking.

By -
Image
It has beeen quite some time since I posted something on GFCF cooking. Most visitors coming to my blog are looking at Ragi (finger millet) as a GFCF substitutue.So for the raagi lovers, here it is Raagi halwa.                                  Just hold on, as I would also like to add that on the therapy side there was a follow up to the dance drama workshop mentioned in my earlier post. Sumathi Ramjee conducted the workshop at Rotary auditorium at Malleswaram.The next session is at ASHA School at 3. 15 pm on the 20 th .It is open to all autistic children and a nominal amount of 100 is charged that goes to the corpus for stationary….The invite says ALL ARE WELCOME. Ragi halwa can be made in two ways and I tried the first option as it is for one easier and the other calls for better planning.I got both these recipes...
Read more

Schools in Hyderabad and Tiruchi

By -
                This school, Saandipani, in Shanti nagar is in Hyderabad. It follows the Waldrof curriculum that does not have a mass appeal with parents of regular kids. It works for our kids feels a mother of an autistic kid. The school believes in lot of physical activities, the academic sessions start only at 11.30. They teach more of vocational skills such as stitching and carpentry. After the gym, OT , and exercises , the mother feels the child is more focused. There are no deadlines. Her son is in the 5 th grade. The best part she says, I don’t have to nag him, and he feels it is his responsibility to do his work. I feel that is major, major …. (Guess it cannot be emphasized enough) learning. Today he writes A-Z, numbers independently and she feels it is an accomplishment to be proud of it. Earlier he was doing a whole lot of academics, none of it independently. ABA is an absolute NO -NO with her son. The Wald...
Read more