Holy Cross Service Society - Trichy

03/02/2016

Let me present to you an interesting event happened yesterday. A 25 year old mother highly educated, along with her father and son (aged 4 years) came to me referred by a neurologist. The child had very severe behaviour problems. When we talked to her, we came to know, the same child was assessed by us 2 years back, when referred by a Pediatrician. We went back and saw the report and found, the child had echolalia and minimal behaviour characteristics needing an early intervention plan. But the parents failed to take any steps to meet the special needs.

Now the child had become severely problematic needing intervention. As the mother is from Trichy, we suggested an early intervention plan. The mother kept on crying and not responding to our suggestion. We finally asked her to come with her husband. But her father told us that her husband had left her, as he could not accept the child. This had hurt the mother and hence she could not respond to our suggestion on early intervention.

Then the most interesting thing happened. The father of the women, told his daughter –

“I am already hurt and old, I am sad because both you and my grandson are suffering. I thought there is no hope. Luckily we came here and I see from the counseling there is lot of opportunities and hope. If you agree to help the child, my stress will be reduced and I may live extra five years to be with you as a support”.

All along we have heard of struggles of parents of children with special needs. We normally miss the agony of grandparents, I thought of sharing this with you.

05/11/2015

One day workshop on Comprehensive Health, Hygiene, Education and Development for the welfare of the differently abled children conducted jointly by the Department for the Welfare of the Differently Abled and UNICEF on 30 October 2015.

Prof. Dr.S. Prabakar Immanuel presented a paper on " Special Education, Inclusive Education - moving forward "

15/10/2015

Dear All

This is Prabakar.
Some one hacked my personal mail. We are fine. IF you have received any mail or request kindly remove it as it is a spam. Kindly share this information to all our mutual friends.

24/06/2015

Early intervention

18/06/2015

Our smiley workers have a lot of work to do today; they have to cater to the food needs of many businesses in the surrounding area. Our restaurant is one of our great project that teach young people with disabilities professional skills in the promising area of catering.

13/06/2015

Do you know someone with autism? Can you relate with this article?

"So please don’t judge, jump to conclusions or blame family members for behavior. We are here to celebrate all of our siblings and their incredible talents and uniqueness..."

10/06/2015

A promising brand-new research on what causes autism explained on this video! Hopefully such researches will help us having a greater understanding of autism, and the people whom it affects.

While most researchers agree that autism is triggered by a combination of genetic and environmental factors, no one has been able to pinpoint the triggered neurological mechanism that ultimately results in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, new research may explain this longstanding mystery. I…

04/06/2015

A Tamil handbook titled ‘Kattralil Pirachanai/ Kuraipaadu’ (Learning Disability/Problem) to help parents and teachers to assess learning abilities among children was released by the Holy Cross Service Society (HCSS) on Saturday.
Such a book had become essential in the State because of faulty methodology being employed by educators in the English-medium system that has led to an increase in the number of children with learning problems, said the author and HCSS executive director Dr. S. Prabhakar Immanuel.