Hanah International Foundation

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 [...]

If you are not familiar with deaf-blindness a first meeting can be quite confusing.  Most of the deaf-blind people are not totally deaf and totally blind; they have some residual vision and/or hearing. We talk about deafblind when there is a combined loss of vision and hearing and neither the vision nor the hearing can [...]