Time eats up the world!
How true the Upanishadic statement is! Well, I do not have to certify it as the Truth. I am only happy that the Truth of the statement has dawned upon me! I am humbled by the statement. We all have to live this day as if Tomorrow does not exist for [...]
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Kaalo Jagath Bhakshakaha
Posted in Love, Ultimate Truth, dropping identities, empowering, food for thought, greetings, life's dilemmas, spirituality, thoughts and emotions, tagged dropping identities, ego nurturing, egolessness, the Ultimate Truth, TIME, whiling away time on February 25, 2008 | 7 Comments »
This Valentine’s Day, Love All !
Posted in Love, adding dimensions, empowering, food for thought, greetings, our mind, people, philosophy, psychology, society, spirituality, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, youth, tagged adjustments and compromises, commitment, commitment phobia, common interests, connotations, emotional closeness, emotional drifting, everlasting love, greetings, infatuation, intimacy, limitless and unconditional, Love, marriage, passion, physical attraction, proximity, roses, sharing and caring, spiritual, valentine's day, youth on February 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
February 14th is an exciting day for young and old lovers alike. It can be a day of celebration of love. Love of all hues and colours, with all its grandness and simplicity. It gives me great pleasure to greet you all on the occasion of Valentine’s Day and say that I Love You All [...]
High heeled shoes to up women’s libido!
Posted in fashion, food for thought, life's dilemmas, people, psychology, research, science, sexuality, society, thoughts and emotions, women, youth, tagged breaking bones, fall, fashion, high heeled shoes, Italian scientists, junk research, pelvic muscles, podiatrists, research, sex appeal, sexuality, walking with high-heeled soes, women-libido on February 9, 2008 | 12 Comments »
I read an interesting (read nonsensical) piece of Research result, in New Indian express, bangalore Edition, dated 7th Feb 08, found out by the Italian scientists. I call it ‘junk research’ as the results of such researches do more harm than good to woman-kind!
They have found out that wearing high heeled shoes can boost a [...]
Britney Spears and Bipolar Disorder
Posted in Bipolar disorder, Psychological disorders, celebrities, habits n addictions, life's dilemmas, people, personality, personality disorder, psychology, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, youth, tagged 2 boy kids in 2 years, addictions, alcohol, attention seeking, Baby one more time First Album, bald hairstyle, Bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, Britney Spears, celebrities, counselling, cusotdy battle, custody battle, delusions, depression, divorce, elation, hallucinations, Harper's Bazaar, jason alewxandra, justin timberlake, kevin federline, lip lock, madonna, Manic Depressive Disorder, marriage, mood disorder, mood swings, MTV music award, new album Black out, poor parenting skills, posing nude for a magazine, psycho education, psycho therapy, psychotic features, rehab centres, suicidal, teenage fame, timberlake on February 7, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The whole of last week saw all news papers covering the story of Britney Spears’ hospitalization, for the second time in a month for her mental illness. She has been diagnosed as suffering from Bipolar Disorder. Before we discuss what exactly is Bipolar disorder, lets have a peep at her life story so far:
Britney was [...]
Dyslexia or Learning Disability – 10 – the concluding post!
Posted in children, counselling, disability, dyslexia, education, empowering, learning disability, life skills, life's dilemmas, our mind, parenting, people, psychology, spreading awareness, stigma, thoughts and emotions, tagged Aamir Khan, Certificate of LD, counselling, depression, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, dyslexia, early intervention, extra time in exam, family history, identification of problem, labelling, language concession, learning disability, low self-esteem, low self-worth, mild, moderate or severe degree, NIMHANS, NIOS, parental feelings, remedial teaching, remediation, sensitizing parents and teachers of school going childr, services of a scribe, skills, St. Johns Hospital, student counselling, substitution of a subject, Taare Zameen Par, vocational training on January 29, 2008 | 35 Comments »
I have decided to conclude the post today, however lengthy or short it may become !
We have discussed the various LD markers and also the probable causes. OK, Once we have identified a child with these difficulties, what do we do?
The child needs an assessment by an Educational psychologist or a Special Educator who may administer [...]
Dyslexia or Learning Disability – 8
Posted in children, counselling, disability, education, empowering, learning disability, life skills, life's dilemmas, our mind, parenting, people, psychology, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, tagged anxiety whie reading, auditory speller, consonant blends, diagraphs, dyslexia, errors with syntax, spelling difficulty, syllabication, vowel sounds, writing difficulties on January 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
While constructing a sentence, children with LD may find it hard to structure their sentence grammatically. They commit errors with syntax. They can not string the words in the right order. They may write, “road goes on the car” instead of “car goes on the road”. Passive voice poses problem to them. The sentence “cat chases the [...]
Dyslexia or Learning Disability – 7
Posted in children, counselling, disability, education, empowering, food for thought, learning disability, life skills, life's dilemmas, our mind, parenting, people, psychology, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, tagged dyslexia, dysgraphia, spatial ability, writing difficulties, alignment, punctualtion and capitalization difficulty, teacher's insensitivity on January 22, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Continuing the writing difficultiesthat many children with LD face, they have poor handwriting as their finer muscle controls are bad in the initial stages and by the time they gain control over the finger muscles, the pattern would have been set and children demotivated enough by all the insults that they keep hearing that they [...]
Dyslexia or Learning Disability – 6
Posted in children, counselling, disability, education, empowering, food for thought, learning disability, life skills, life's dilemmas, parenting, people, psychology, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, tagged dyslexia, reading difficulties, visual perception, visual discrimination, auditory discrimination, day dreaming in class, fine motor skill, dominance of the brain, left and right hemisphere of the brain, left handedness on January 21, 2008 | 15 Comments »
In my last post I was discussing the various forms of Visual and Auditory perceptual difficulties that many children with LD face. And the link provided by Mr. John Heyas in his comment to Post 5 threw much more light upon visual perceptual difficulties. Here we may recall how the little fellow Ishaan Awasthi in [...]
Dyslexia or Learning Disability – 5
Posted in children, counselling, disability, education, empowering, food for thought, learning disability, life skills, life's dilemmas, our mind, parenting, people, psychology, research, society, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, tagged auditory discrimination, dyslexia, figure-ground perception, reading difficulties, short term visual and auditory memory, visual and auditory closure, visual discrimination, visual perception on January 19, 2008 | 16 Comments »
In my last post I had written about the various difficulties that children with LD face while reading. Most of these difficulties occur because of visual and auditory perceptual problems. Let me explain.
Children will have normal vision, normal hearing ability, but may have difficulty in:
visual and auditory discrimination – they may be unable to discriminate between similar [...]
