Raising a special needs child

Maureen,6, is the first born in a family of three and is in class two. Full of activities, her typical day almost looks like that of an adult.

As we mark World Down syndrome day, Woman Magazine talks to Mzee Ally Kawambwa and Rukia Said, parents raising a child with Down syndrome. Mzee Kawambwa shares with us the challenges he and his wife face on a daily basis as they strive to raise their daughter.

Children don’t have the cognitive skills to truly understand the concept of empathy until they’re 8 or 9. But 5-year-olds, usually highly preoccupied with fairness, are concerned about being treated well, and they want others — friends, strangers, even characters in books — to be treated well too. Here’s how to nurture these budding displays of empathy.

Parents, teachers and child experts all agree that raising a child has never been an easy task.

Mr. David Nabarro.

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS DAVID NABARRO AS SPECIAL ENVOY FOR EBOLA AND ANTHONY BANBURY AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE AND HEAD OF THE UNITED NATIONS MISSION FOR EBOLA EMERGENCY RESPONSE (UNMEER)

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of David Nabarro of the United Kingdom as his Special Envoy for Ebola and Anthony Banbury as his Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER).

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>Today every Tanzanian knows that education for his or her child is not a privilege, but a right, which must be given to the child without any excuses. Both the current Constitution and the Law of the Child recognise this right. Fortunately enough, even the proposed Constitution has made this right clearer than ever in Article 52. Governments of all phases since independence have been doing reasonably well in expanding educational facilities for all levels of education to ensure Tanzanian...

Govt must ensure 'special' schools are indeed special
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Several years ago the government established what it called 'special schools' for bright students who were enrolled to pursue secondary school education. Such were Mzumbe in Morogoro, Ilboru in Arusha, Mirambo in Tabora and Msalato in Dodoma, ...

The little boy could not have been more than four years.

We’re bringing up our children in a very different world from when we were young.