Posts Tagged ‘Children’
The Frenzy of Football
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: October 11, 2009
- In: Goa
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Football is in the blood of every Goan and the high that comes only with this racy sport can be seen as people gather at their village grounds every other day. Some of these football fields are mere flattened paddy fields, but the thrill of watching the ball race around can be got just about [...]
Up for Grabs
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: September 15, 2008
Up for Grabs
I often looked at all those millions of ad, in all shapes, colours, sizes, messages, competing for eye space and wondered, do these advertisements really help.
Does anyone read this stuff, do they actually go out and buy these things, consciously?.
This weekend, I happened to visit the Sisters of Charity orphanage in the neighborhood, [...]
Making Inclusive Education A Reality For Children With Disabilities*
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: July 18, 2008
Making Inclusive Education A Reality For Children With
Disabilities*
Introduction
One cannot argue adequately enough the importance of education and its over-arching influence on every aspect of a person’s life, least of all on that of a person with disability (PWD). Discriminated against, socially, politically and economically, education is arguably their only means to long term empowerment [...]
Eyes on the future
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: May 23, 2008
Eyes on the future
IN PERSPECTIVE
The Government should address low vision problems in children.
It is widely believed that there are over 120 million people worldwide with Low Vision (LV), a condition that cannot be corrected, cured or treated by conventional medicine or surgery. Over 90 per cent of these people with LV live in developing countries.
According [...]
Developmental Disabilities
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: April 23, 2008
Developmental Disabilities
IN PERSPECTIVE
For a long while, it was believed that people with DD were incapable of learning.
Commonly known as mental retardation, Developmental Disabilities (DD) is a term used for a pattern of persistently slow learning of basic motor and language skills during childhood and significantly below-normal intellectual ability as an adult. One common criterion for [...]
In Search of Words
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: February 22, 2008
In Search of Words
IN PERSPECTIVE
To put it more simply, dyslexia implies a difficulty with words…
To quote a dyslexic “For me words are meaningless – just labels to be put on pictures. If the label falls off or changes, I don’t care, because I’m thinking in pictures. The challenge is in explaining it to this [...]
Let us talk Autism
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: January 18, 2008
Let us talk Autism
IN PERSPECTIVE
Part of the answer lies in the educational system adopting a more flexible approach.
These days, children with autism and their parents are an excited lot. Finally through a two hour commercial film they can expect a little more understanding, from their relatives, friends, teachers, peers and associates. A nuanced [...]
A little care can go a long way
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: March 9, 2007
IN PERSPECTIVE
Negligence and malnutrition, known to cause disability, can be easily prevented.
There are some 15 lakh disabled people in Karnataka, 75 per cent of whom live in rural areas. Only two per cent have access to community-based rehabilitation, 51 per cent of them are illiterate and a predominantly large number live below the poverty line. [...]
Lillian @ Poetry
- Advertising Cloud 9The horizon in shades of green,Water tanks, blue and black,Clothes of all hues waving in the breeze.Cloud 9 advertising its services,Who would think, it would need to?But it does,Its the recession.
- Untitledoh why does my soul refuse to rest.it bounds up,against gravity,like there were thorns that pricked its underside.refusing it rest.oh my soul has a bloody breasta weary heartthat longs to rest,but somehow each night is dayin its unending search to run away.
- UntitledI stare out,As the orange-pink of sunsetFades away into silhouettes,Large dark trees, rise upAnd the cold road leads away.The breeze whips at my face,The curtains buffeted in the strong wind,Fly around uncontrollably like shreds,My heart feels the same,As it leaves sweet memories behind.Parting can never be harder.15th April 2009
- Happy Women’s Day?.......... I beg your pardonIts 8th March, International Women’s DayBut she doesn’t know it.She wakes up at 6.00 a.m,like she has for the last 12 years,her mental clock and love for her family helps her up.she fills the rice into the cooker, chops up the vegetables in the yellow light of the bulb.The chickens in their coop stir, at the first break of light.the brass pot rolls down on t […]
- Un-namedI want to writeBut wordsTremble within meThen die.I dig through my memoryFor experiencesFor verseBut all I find is gooey morass.I yearn to riseBe the bestBut the forceEludes meA phantom. There they areThe first buds of springOr is it a mirageThe sightings of a deluded soul8th February 2008
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