In 2021, World Children’s Day was celebrated on the 20th November with the theme "A Better Future for Every Child" to promote international togetherness, awareness among children worldwide, and improving children's welfare. One may recall that it was in 1959, on November 20, the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child.
According to the UN, World Children's Day offers an inspirational entry-point to advocate, promote and celebrate children's rights, translating into dialogues and actions that will build a better world for children.
Here are my ABC poems that describe the roles of care givers and service providers towards Children With Special Needs (CWSN).
ABC POEM ON CORRECT ATTITUDE OF CARE GIVERS
A: Accept the child and his or her reality or condition
B: Be ready to help the child and invest in support for the child
C: Be an active member of Individualized Education Plan team
D: Deal not with or fix not the disability rather work to mitigate
E: Empathetically experience the condition of the child and provide human sensory inputs
ABC POEM ON CORRECT ATTITUDE OF SERVICE PROVIDERS SUCH AS CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST, THERAPIST AND SPECIAL EDUCATOR
A: Accommodate the child effort-fully and whole-heatedly
B: Be pro-active in designing multi-modal interventions to mitigate problem, fulfill need or rehabilitate
C: Collectivize and connect to one another and work at times ‘more than one on one’
D: Discuss and consult others as well as the latest
E: Explore solutions and alternatives
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