Hanah International Foundation

Sex education is to guide and support a child in sexual development, and since a child with a physical disability or a chronic illness also is a child, it is fully entitled to have sexual education. Children with special needs even require additional attention.   Acknowledge the sexuality of the child: Sometimes parents and even [...]

“In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior.”  (Vigotsky 1966) This makes play one of the most important parts of the child’s early development.  From the first days of a child’s life, he is engaged in playing; not only as an enjoyable activity but as one of the most [...]

(De Volkskrant, Opinie & Debat; Friday 7 October 2011)   Thecla  Rondhuis is philosopher and author of “The mongol, the mother and the philosopher.”   Even as a mother of a child with the Down-syndrome it is difficult to accept the narrowed limits of his possibilities. Toilet-trained he became only at the age of eleven, [...]

    As indicated in page 1, play for children has, besides just experiencing fun and pleasure also very functional aspects.  And that sometimes makes that playing, especially for children with special needs becomes a kind of task: the children have to play in a certain way, according to the rules and the intentions of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]