More on Scroobius Pip
Check this video out if you get a chance: You Shall Always Kill. It’s Scroobius Pip’s litany of commandments on how to think for yourself. It’s also hilarious.
Sroobius Pip Stutters
I heard this great interview on National Public Radio this morning as I was getting Moy Moy ready for school. It was with a British hip-hop singer who, along with his partner/composer Dan Le Sac, has suddenly become wildly popular both in the UK and the US. His lyrics are so interesting, for example, in […]
New Discovery
Check out this website: http://www.muktanganedu.org Muktangan is a great organisation I heard of while in Mumbai. Vibha and the Ummeed team are partnering with them to bring the early intervention concept to the already fabulous pre-school program Muktangan has pioneered in municipal schools in Bombay. I didn’t get a chance to visit them, but have […]
Getting In the Door
The awareness team organized a great workshop on accessibility today and managed to persuade 21 people to attend – 21 very hard to persuade people at that! These were engineers from the PWD, people from the Ministry of Social Welfare and Empowerment, the Mayor’s office, schools, NGOs and our friendly lawyer, Ravi Bhatia. The team […]
Dreaming of a Place of Our Own
It’s time to build our own campus. Several years ago, we raised enough money to buy land, but, for one reason after another, the time never seemed right to go ahead and construct. Now, I’m not sure why, things have changed. Ravi says it’s the dynamics of organizational growth – there comes a time when […]
The Net
Last week I read an article in The Hindu which speculated about what might happen if companies banned email during office hours. According to researchers, productivity actually decreases with too much use of the internet, and particularly with too much emailing. I thought about it, laughed at the idea of giving it up and went […]
Just Three More from Ummeed!
I can’t help it. I just got a lot of great pictures that day. According to Hetal, this little one’s head tilt translates as “I love you,” so I was wondering if Deepali was saying the same thing to ME below: And finally, let’s hear it for animated mother-child communication!
Tell Me A Story, I’ll Sing You A Song
While I was in Mumbai, I went with Vibha to a meeting organized by India Book House to discuss prospects for new books in the area of special needs. The original idea was for Vibha to write a book for parents of kids with disabilities, but she cleverly passed the task on to me. While […]
Reality
My friend (and sometimes mentor) Dunu Roy often accuses me of sugarcoating the difficult aspects of disability. He says I tend to use pictures like the one on the left, and avoid those like the one on the right. I guess he’s right. I guess I figure people already have so many of those old […]
The Look
Don’t miss the expression on this child’s face: it’s one of rapt attention. she’s waiting for the next thing to happen and she is focused and fully present. It’s what Early Intervention is all about – helping our kids to pay attention so they can learn and grow and develop the skills they need.