Teaching and cognitive skill development support for children with hemophilia: Special on World Hemophilia Day

Teaching of children with hemophilia can be done in special education schools, inclusive classrooms and at home with parental or care-givers' education and training.

"Teaching children with hemophilia requires a multifaceted approach that combine individualized education and care plans along with a supportive environment at home and school." informs an AI Overview.

To begin with, even alphabet primer for such children can include basic information about hemophilia, understanding potential risks and how to manage them by ensuring access to necessary medical care and resources, adds the overview.

First thing to create a safe environment with floor matting, round classroom and furniture with no sharp edges, The writing utensils should be soft. We need to ensure that the home and school environment should be extra-safe and minimize the risk of injuries. Teachers, children and caregivers should be aware of the disorder work together for individual care plan along with the individualized education plan with emphasis on one-on-one plans to receive appropriate accommodations and support.

Encourage low-impact exercises like sit dances, simple yoga, aquatic therapy and walking on soft grass or floor to help build muscle strength and protect joints. Also, assisted physical therapy protocols be followed since they have limitations in their physical activities and activities of daily lifedaily life.

In India, RPDA 2016 recognizes hemophilia as a disability, classifying it under blood disorders. The schooling has be short hours with more of visual verbal learning. There should supervised rest hours. Since school hours are short, assignments and practice work be made up at home. In some cases, homebound instruction or personalized tutoring might be appropriate.

Individuals with hemophilia can apply for disability certificates under the RPDA 2016, which can provide access to various benefits and support programs to safeguard their rights. The bio-psycho-social factors related to children arising out of anemia, bleeding and side effects of the drugs, require empathetic and accommodative physical, social, and educational environment.

The studies have shown that restriction in physical and social activities of children with hemophilia from early childhood may interfere with development of cognitive processes if individualized education plans are not developed and followed. Also, many higher order cognitive skills do not shape in these children properly, therefore, their early childhood care and education needs to be done properly so that they become literate and could lead a normal life and do work involving involving

Slow-paced and highly assisted stimulation and training of intelligence and cognitive skills right from beginning is required for such children can lead to having a fulfilling life.

There is need to develop special teaching-learning material permitting self-paced visual-verbal education for children with hemophilia