Practical tips for parents In each of the following areas, there is a a variety of ways to play with the child, and it helps to reach the developmental milestones. Babies are motivated initially through their senses, There’s always such a sense accessible; even when it can’t see and hear it can feel your touch, [...]
Motricity in children with special needs The real value of interaction between an adult and a child is not determined by the ability of the adult to lead the child, but depends on the quality of the response to the action of the child. The essence of communication is interaction rather than action. Children [...]
Deafblindness and social emotional development. The combination of visual (seeing) and auditorial (hearing) problems in a young child has huge consequences for how the child perceives the world around and learns to handle the information. Seeing and hearing are the main distance sentences and responsible for the contact of the child with the world. Because [...]
Making a start, especially in deafblind children Emotional development is about recognizing, accepting and appreciating your own identity. who you are and what you can. Also in children with special needs. Already from the very beginning; mothers start giving names to the unborn child in her womb, names on birth cards are wonderful designed, [...]
Also for children with a visual limitation play is important. But often the child must be invited not only in a different way but also in various ways. The involvement of the adult is not only encouraging but also often to help to start the playing and to explore the challenges together. Because the child [...]
THE EDUCATION OF A DEAFBLIND CHILD A deafblind child has an auditory and visual limitation, whose combination, even using hearing equipment and optical devices, gives such problems that access to information, communication with other people and the mobility is very limited such that an appropriate deafblindness-specific support is needed. This is because a [...]
Welcome. Hanah International Foundation directly supports initiatives on demand of parents of children with special communication needs to join them in optimizing the family situation. For that purpose we offer the experience of an international network of regional independent experts and experienced parents that exist meanwhile from the Baltic to the Black Sea. This network aims at sharing knowledge, skills and enthusiasm of parents, children and professionals. Hanah International does not provide any direct financial support, equipment or other facilities other than in Hanah activities.
