People with Special Needs

People with special needs like ADHD, Dyslexia and Autism certainly have special requirements to consider while planning to improve the facilities and opportunities for people with special needs.  

Dyslexia is a reading and learning disorder in which the effected person has difficulty in reading, pronouncing, spelling and identifying words, which is a hindrance to his writing and reading skills. Planning ahead by making their surroundings friendly for people with dyslexia like giving training, providing with assistive technologies like text to speech software, speech recognition software’s and personal organizers can  help the person perform his job more effectively and easily.  Reaching out and helping people with special needs and disabilities by helping them to be independent and actively engaging them in community development is very important to raise their self-esteem.

Autism is a neural disorder which affects a person’s brain cells and reduces a person’s ability to communicate and interact with others, to help plan for the betterment of people with autism the initial model would be to help them in acquiring community based jobs for which the support of the person, his family members, specialists and selective members of the community is very much required.  To successfully achieve such a model, a lot of hard work, commitment and support from the community is very important, which in turn would be very helpful in raising the morale and confidence of the autistic person by helping him lead an independent life.

ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) is a type of disorder in which the person experiences extreme forgetfulness, lack of concentration, procrastination, hypersensitivity and restlessness. Establishing a set of guidelines to improve the process and the results for clinicians and person’s with ADHD is very important in meeting the requirements, these guidelines should consist of all the recommendations for this disorder by health care specialists, which should be used as a benchmark, used to train the health care specialists, ease the interaction between a patient and his health carer and help the patient take important decisions about his treatment. Following these guidelines will definitely make life easier for a person with ADHD.