ADHD is NOT caused by too much screen time, poor parenting or eating too much sugar. ADHD can improve with the correct treatment, a healthy diet, an adequate sleep and exercise regime plus supportive parents who know how to respond to ADHD.
Despite governments signing up to many a convention and seemingly supporting international guidelines on children with special needs, prejudices and exclusion still form part of everyday life for many children with special needs around the world.
Children with special needs require additional assistance when it comes to their oral health.
A child with special needs gets help from a variety of medical professionals, one of them being the occupational therapist. This article will help parents to better understand what their child’s occupational therapist is aiming to achieve.
In conjunction with World Autism Awareness Day, here are some pointers for parents and teachers by child psychologist Tan Chee Ern.
There is increasing hope for our children with special needs as more facilities and resources become available in Malaysia.
Parents are usually the first ones to think that there is a problem with their child's motor, social, and/or speech and language development. This parental concern should be enough to initiate further evaluation. Prof. Dr. Eric Lim explains.
It can be quite challenging to detect learning disabilities associated with autism because sometimes parents assume these as the child not being interested. Read about the experience of a mother detecting signs of autism in her child.
Here is a young mother’s struggle to make sense of autism when she learned that her son is autistic. It had initially dragged her down, but then it lifted her up that she’s on a mission to eradicate the misconception about autism.
We now have several types of education systems in Malaysia, all harmoniously living under the same roof. The one type of school that is still lacking in many ways is schools for special needs children.