Make The Rights Real For Persons With Autism

Today is the World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD) as declared by the United Nations in December 2007.  The theme this year is “Make the Rights Real for Persons with Autism”. Sadly, most families afflicted with autism in the country hardly know of their rights or even bother to claim such rights because of the red tape and bureaucracy happening in the country.  So […]

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Learning Challenges For A Child With Autism

The biggest challenge in teaching a child with autism is that they have a tendency to forget easily and so to be able for them to master something you have to teach the same things to them repeatedly until it becomes a habit. When I enrolled my daughter for her special class she barely can sit for long minutes and […]

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What Do You Know About Disability

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 discriminations. Autism was just a […]

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3rd World Autism Awareness Day Activities Philippines

Today marks the 3rd year the World Autism Day is celebrated.  Thanks to the United Nations General Assembly for adopting and  issuing a resolution on December 18, 2007 declaring April 2 as the World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD) that will bring the world’s attention to autism in perpetuity. Autism is a pervasive disorder that affects tens of millions and does […]

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Please Help Bring Gomey Back Home

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 upon this story about Gomey, […]

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