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While separate settings may provide tailored support, individualized instruction, and a focused environment for special needs children, there are concerns about potential social isolation, limited exposure to diversity, and the risk of perpetuating stigma. A balanced approach that combines inclusive education with specialized support services might offer the best of both worlds. This way,…

In this blog I will discuss about the challenges faced by us in integrating Simi in a School set up. After imparting strenuous therapies for four months the therapist left Guwahati due to her personal issues. With no options left, we continued with the same therapies for around one year and further decided to enrol Simi in a formal school. In her academic part, my wife (Mrs Padmaja) was fully…

Build your Second Brain and Help Grow the Community Knowledge Garden

“Knowledge garden” is a metaphor for a dynamic and living system of information, ideas, and inspiration that interact, cross-fertilize, feed and grow on each other. School of Commoning A small story before I start this article. As I started planning this article, I asked Shilpi Mayank Awasthi, Founder of SpecialSaathi, whether one of the CreativeSaathis could do a creative representation of the…

Storytelling Discoveries and Tips – 1

October 2022 – December 2022 This year has been a year of storytelling. I started blogging with SpecialSaathi in October 2022. I started learning Bharatanatyam with storytelling from Shri Ujwal Jagadeesh,a senior faculty and artiste at Ramana Maharshi Center for Learning (RMCL) in October 2022. I am also learning drama from Dr. Vaishnavi Poorna, Deputy Director of Ramana Sunritya Aalaya (RASA)…

Happy birthday bloggersaathi Ananth Raghunandan!!

Happy Children’s Day!! From SpecialSaathi Team

To all the Super Duper Awesome and Fantastic Bachhas!!A very Happy Children’s Day to you all!Team specialsaathi wish you a fantabulous and fun filled, enjoyable moments and the happiest returns of the day, not only today but forever!!All the Saathi members of Specialsaathi team are extending their heartfelt wishes to you through this post. Happy Children’s Day To each one of us- Dr Sonali…

The Power of Small Steps: Our BloggerSaathi Journey

Yesterday, Ananth shared his first post as blogger saathi. What can one blog post set in motion? First, we decided to include blogging in our daily routine.  Writing a small amount daily is important for producing blog posts regularly. While Ananth will write a small amount for his blog daily, we don’t know exactly how the writing process will unfold for him. We are now in a phase of…

LANGUAGE IS CAUGHT AND NOT TAUGHT

LANGUAGE IS CAUGHT AND NOT TAUGHT Language is a self expression Language is a self dialogue Language cannot be a symbol of one’s intelligence There is obviously two modes of language – receptive , expressive Oh no there are two more – body language and para language Language is a tool that helps us to communicate with others Other tools are our eyes , hands , facial gestures , grimace ,…