Author: Dr. Nandita De Souza | Jul 31, 2015 Last week, the close-to-miraculous power of speaking with pictures revealed itself yet again at Sethu. A child with autism who was attending a review session started screaming loudly with excitement when he saw the toys in my room. With great embarrassment,
Author: Anjali Nunes | Aug 21, 2015 “Communication” is a big word and also has many meanings. To most of us typically developing humans, we hone in or focus solely on communication as what we say and how we say it or to put it simply ‘speech’. But communication in
Author: Patricia Lopes | Sep 09, 2015 On the first day of Sethu’s Mother-Toddler Program called Asha, 3 year old Jane sat without any difficulty for Circle time where she participated in singing nursery rhymes and action songs. However, when it came to Exercise Time, she refused to get on
Author: Gouri Salvi | Sep 22, 2015 When five year old Roshni (not her real name) first came to me for psychotherapy, she was a silent & withdrawn. Her play verged on being violent and destructive. Crayons would be broken into bits; toy cars went crashing over “cliffs”; drawing paper
Author: Mahera Kantawalla | Nov 05, 2015 All of us experience the world around us through our different senses. The 5 senses commonly known to us include Vision, Tactile (touch), Auditory, Smell and Taste. In addition to these senses, Occupational Therapists talk about 2 more “hidden” sensory systems that play