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Impact of Down Syndrome on Language and Communication

Down syndrome is a developmental difficulty due to a chromosomal error (or a problem with genes). All children with Down syndrome have some degree of learning disability and develop skills at a slower rate to other children. Delays in language based and learning milestones are evident around their first birthday. The language skills of children…

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Best Cerebral Palsy Treatment In Noida at Nurturers

Best Cerebral Palsy Treatment In Noida at Nurturers Difficult Mealtime With CP (Cerebral Palsy) Children Mealtime is often stressful for parents because in initial years of life children develop their food habits with various activities but it is even more difficult for the parents with CP (Cerebral Palsy) children. Eating or Mealtime lays the foundation…

Therapy for Misarticulation
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Therapy for Misarticulation

Misarticulation is a speech sound disorder in which a person shows difficulty in articulation and produces sounds, syllables, words incorrectly. This leads to difficulty in understanding speech. Misarticulation can be due to following reasons- Developmental Disability Hearing Loss At Early Age Any structural and functional deformity in articulators (lips, teeth, tongue, buccal cavity, jaw, palate)…

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Overcoming Dyslexia: A Guide for Supportive Parenting

Every parent wants their child to be the smartest kid in the neighborhood. Today’s competitive world further worries parents who strive to provide every bit possible to make their child the best in the class. So when a child does get diagnosed with dyslexia, it disheartens the parents. When the parents are sad, ultimately the…

The Perils of Not Being Diagnosed' Part-3 in a series
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The perils of not being diagnosed…

Most often, children with dyslexia are categorized as lazy or unmotivated by parents and teachers who don’t understand the disorder. It may even be that the child is not diagnosed and spends his entire childhood scared of books and studies. In India, the chances of this happening are sadly greater. The merciless educational system, the…

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In The Shoes Of A Dyslexic

‘Bear with me, my dear’  It a romantic line from an English novel but poor Arjun didn’t understand where the animals came from! Dyslexia often involves misunderstanding words, mostly by replacing them with a similar word. Most of these words have phonetic undertones – reading ‘read’ as ‘red’ for example. This would, of course, change…

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Exploring Dyslexia: Insights from ‘Taare Zameen Par

The Indian populace Dyslexia disorder, primarily because of the Bollywood movie ‘Tare Zameen Par, which does an excellent job at depicting a child with dyslexia and the struggles he faces due to the harsh education system. But what exactly happens due to dyslexia? How does it affect learning and education? Is the movie an exaggeration…