I know most of you would not mind reading this post as this doesn’t concern or interest you in any way. I was like you eight years ago. My view about disability was confined with persons who shows very obvious signs impairment like being deaf, mute, blind, crippled, and with physical deformities or [...]
I envy those who were able to vote and get that transmittal receipt bearing the word “Congratulations!” after having their ballots validated by the PCOS machine. I never get to experience this because the PCOS machine in the precinct I was a registered voter was broke. From the news I’ve gathered via the online 2010 [...]
This post is a day late, this was meant for the blog action day re: Education Is A Right spearheaded by the Kabataan Partylist. I agree that everyone has the right to a quality and accessible education, it is a right given to as by the constitution, the basic of all human rights everyone is [...]
Intellectual disability is the largest single life-long handicap existing in the Philippines today, affecting 3-7% of the population. More than 30,000 are born annually with the condition, and each passing year sees a rise in this figure. Each one of these special individuals needs the same care, attention and opportunity to be treated with respect [...]
UPDATE: Gomey is home! Hooray! The more than 800,000 post helped. He was sent back home. Details here. One of my biggest pet peeve are people who are so full of themselves to think they are better than others and know more than anyone else. I was doing my regular blog hopping when I chanced [...]
Angels will take a walk again on January, 24, 2010, at the SM Mall of Asia as we held the 3rd Angels Walk for Autism. The walk is entitled Angels Walk in the Malls. Registration will be held at the Level One Entertainment/Music Hall, fronting the Seaside Boulevard. This is absolutely free. Or you can [...]
Dear Cebu Pacific, I could not believe how ignorant and racist your staff were on your December 23, 2009 flight for them to disallow a special child along with her mother to board your airplane bound for Manila from HongKong because they mistook the child with autism as someone who is mentally ill. I think [...]
The 1st International Autism Conference in Manila will be hosted by Autism Hearts on February 3-5, 2010 at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC). Around the world, the number of children identified with ASD has nearly reached epidemic proportions. In United States, the rate is now one in every 91 children and still rising, according [...]
Parents will always be proud of their children’s milestones. Well here’s one for you! I am here to brag about my daughter’s art works. I know it may look like doodles for some but to me I see a budding abstract artist. Picasso move over! See she was the one to choose the colors she [...]
Persons with autism (PWA) experience the world differently. Their senses don’t process information in the same way so that they may have unique sensory (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching) experiences in a different manner. Thanks to the SM Committee on Disability Affairs (SM-CDA), in partnership with Autism Society Philippines, as they launched today the Sensory-Friendly Movies (SfM) [...]
