Children With Special Needs

Switch Activities for Special Needs Kids  Switches are such a simple technology that it’s easy to overlook them in the era of super-computers and flying cars, but they’re a technology which almost anyone can make use of to empower individuals with special needs, allowing them to bring about change by themselves. In this article I’m going describe, step by step, how to use the Buzz! Controllers we‘ve already mentioned on the blog to set up a switch system for an individual with special needs...Read Full Story

A look at Temple Grandins Squeeze Machine What is a hugging machine? A hug machine, sometimes known as a ’squeeze box’ or ‘hugging machine’ is a device intended to treat certain symptoms of autism, provide a calming affect and aid its user in tolerating touch. A hug machine is composed of two padded hinged sideboards, forming a ‘V’, with a headrest and control box at one end trailing tubes that lead to an air compressor. Due to the design the user is in full control of the experience...Read Full Story

We’ve all got our party hats on here at the office, and if you live in or around Herefordshire you might just have reason to celebrate too! It’s 3 years to the day that we first committed ourselves to spreading the Music Gym ethos across the UK after Sue attended a Social Franchising seminar at Voice 08. The idea seemed such a perfect fit for the work we do: we get so many requests about Music Gyms and this would drive down the costs for anyone seeking a similar service in their local area...Read Full Story

During July 2004, my life changed.Me and my ex-fiance, Johan, went out for dinner and we were on our way home. That whole day I kept thinking about the terrible dream I had the night before. I woke up 11 times, almost screaming. It was strange, all I could remember was this strong, cold wind blowing against my face, it took my breath away.We had just picked up our daughter who was almost a year old and we were halfway home on the R573 to Kwa-Mhlanga. We were living on a smallholding with his...Read Full Story

THE TITLE MAY BE AFRIKAANS FOR "SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN," but I think such relates to a couple of interesting stories of late from across the world as relate to just how cruel and sadisto children can be subjected, especially when "discipline" is expected to be the object. First off, there's the strange and sickening case of a onetime corrective school/orphanage in the Channel Islands enclave of Jersey by name of the Haut de la Garenne ("rabbit warren heights" in the Norman French patois...Read Full Story