Author: Silvia Mascarenhas | Feb 02, 2016 Over the last few weeks, I have been feeling dismayed, thinking about a young person I met at Sethu. Rohan (name changed) is 16 years of age, studying in Std 9 in a well established school. What’s disturbing is that he has been
Author: Dr. Nandita De Souza | Feb 18, 2016 Another masterpiece by a 3.5 year old child who visited Sethu today – he drew a boy with many physical details, including an important by-product of a healthy life! Usually a 4 year old will draw a person with 4 body
Author: Andre Velho | Feb 26, 2016 The importance of motivation and reward:Being a behaviour therapist working with children with autism, I commonly come across temper tantrums during my sessions – usually because the child does not want to perform the tasks expected. A common practice among professionals then, (including
Author: Anjali Nunes | Mar 09, 2016 The term ‘Speech Therapy’ is indeed a misleading one at that! Almost all families who are referred for ‘Speech Therapy’ believe that a speech therapist will help any and all children gain the much sought-after milestone of language and speech. A majority of
Author: Kimberly Dias | Mar 12, 2016 When ‘I’ is replaced by ‘we’, even ‘illness’ becomes ‘wellness’. Isolated children are more likely to be bullied; hence peer relationships are an important area of functioning in school as they help in determining our sense of self and the direction of our