Challenging Dejection By Parents of Special Need Children

  Challenging Dejection By Parents of Special Need Children

......taken from Sfuran (Commissioner Disability)

The nature and content of parental depression vary according to the specific personal and interpersonal situations and temperament of the parents: some blame themselves, some blame others, some have intense anxiety along with depression, some have crying spells, some resign early to fate and some become abusive. Also, parental depression occurs in different phases and takes different forms accordingly. For example, the anxiety and attribution of blame in the pre-diagnostic stage of uncertainty is very different from the post-diagnostic feeling of subsequent fatigue of prolonged caring. Again, the age of the child and the parent is a significant factor. The parental stress increases when the child reaches adolescence and also when the parents reach middle age. The relative share of depression and anxiety depends on socio-economic condition, the extent of socially embarrassing or disruptive symptoms of the child and social support.

Autism Basics

Autism Basics

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---- taken from an article of K. S. Adhikaree, Ex Asstt. Commissioner

In determining the degree of abnormality peculiarity, frequency, intensity, duration, of behaviour are also to be considered along with child’s chronological age.

Management – As it is not a disease no question of treatment may arise. Therapies, intervention, properly designed to remedy specific symptoms – educational, behavioural and medical are to be developed to bring substantial development. A very small proportion of those with childhood autism can lead independent adult life. There is rather a better prospect for a child with Asperger syndrome. The autistic children with mental retardation, epilepsy or other associated ailments will have restricted lifestyle in adulthood. Out of many interventions, educational and psychological are most effective. Before designing intervention a multidisciplinary team consisting of Psychologist, Psychotherapists, Speech Therapist, behaviour therapists, special educator, doctor and rehabilitation professionals and others should be formed comprehensive need assessment. ECE in Anganwadi Centres may yield a good result for the children with autism as they may learn language from other children. Every task of intervention should be developed step by step. Parental choice is always an effective guide for overall development but parents should not be over expectant or opposite. The doctor should be more cautious to declare a child AUTISTIC.

Children Whose Growth and Development May Get Hampered

Pradip Maity (Renounced Physiotherapist)

•     Birth before expected delivery date (37 weeks before).
•      Children who did not cry after birth.
•     Respiratory distressed.
•     Birth weight below 2kg 500 gm.
•       Infections.
•      Jaundice at a high level after few days of birth.
•      Convulsion.
•     Head injury during birth.
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Autism Basics

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Characteristic of Autism :

Severe delays in language development: Language develops too slowly if develops at all, and they have peculiar speech patterns like the unorganized use of words to understand its meaning or use of unusual metaphors or in a monotone voice. About 40% of children with autism do not talk at all, some have echolalia – the repeated words might be said right way or at a later time.

Severe delays in understanding social relationships: The child with autism often avoid eye contact, resists being picked up and seems to time out the world around them resulting lack of cooperative play with peers-a lack of ability to develop friendship and to understand others’ feelings.

Inconsistant pattern of sensory responses: the child with autism some time many appear to be deaf and fail to respond any word or other sounds, sometimes they are extremely distressed by the everyday sound of domestic appliances, even cry of pets. In fine, may show apparent insensitively or many overreact to the same cause.

Uneven pattern of intellectual functioning: Child with autism may do some work like drawing, music, computation in math etc quite well in relation to overall functioning. Very often the child with autism has varying degrees of mental retardation this combination of intellectual variation makes autism perplexing. 

---- taken from an article of K. S. Adhikaree, Ex Asstt. Commissioner

Autism Basics

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People with classic autism show three types of symptoms: impaired social interaction, the problem with verbal and non-verbal communication severely limited activities or interests. People with autism may have a different time relating the outside world and may have unusual relation to the people around him. They may demonstrate aggressive behaviour by one's activity, unusual passivity in relating to parents, family members and others.

Actually, autism is a spectrum disorder – the symptoms and characteristics of autism can present themselves in a wide variety of combination. Two children both with the same diagnosis can act very different from one another and have varying skills.

Depending on ones, specific symptoms a child with autism can be included in any one of the following: Persons with autistic behaviour but well-developed language skills are often diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome. Apart from classic autistic disorder, and Asperger Syndrome, CDD, PDNOS, Rett Syndrome another conditions included in ASD, which occurs only in girls and cause them to develop autism-like symptoms after seemingly normal development. Rett syndrome is sex-linked genetic disorder characterized by inadequate brain growth seizures and other neurological problem.

---- taken from an article of K. S. Adhikaree, Ex Asstt. Commissioner

Autism Basics

Autism Basics

Autism is a lifelong developmental disability that affects how the brain functions specifically those areas of the brain that control social ability and communication skills i.e it is not a disease but a developmental disorder of brain’s function which was first described by Dr Leo Kanner in 1943. Autism prevents an individual from properly understanding what they see, hear, feel, smell, taste and otherwise sense. Naturally severe problems of social relationships communication and behaviours are cropping up.

Developmental disability means a severe, chronic disability of a person which is attributable to a mental or physical impairment or combination of both is manifested before the person attains age of 22, is likely to continue indefinitely, results in substantial functional limitations in different area of major life activities like self care, receptive and expressive language, learning, mobility, self direction, capacity for independent living and economic sufficiency. And reflects the person’s need for a combination and sequence of special interdisciplinary or generic care, treatment or other services which are of lifelong or extended duration and are individually planned or coordinated.

To Be Continued....... Keep Watching......

---- taken from an article of K. S. Adhikaree, Ex Asstt. Commissioner (Disability)

Reasons for poor development of kids (Both Physically & Mentally)

Our Childs’ physical as well as mental growth and development involve all the changes that his/her body and mind go through. Every parent needs to regularly monitor their child’s growth. If a child's growth is not monitored closely, growth disorders may be missed. A growth disorder prevents the child from reaching the optimum height and weight. It can influence other aspects of the child's mental, physical, or emotional development. Also parents should be aware about their lifestyle and health.

Reasons for poor development of kids (Both Physically & Mentally)

      Pregnancy at low age. Like before 18yrs.

      Unusual bleeding during pregnancy.

      Prolonged Labour Pain

      All kinds of Infection.

      Malnutrition & Anemia.

      Diabetes

      High blood pressure/ High blood pressure during pregnancy.

      Jaundice.

      Convulsion.

      Medication without doctor consultation during pregnancy & XRay done.

      Addiction

      Marriage between close family relation.