The department of empowerment of persons with disabilities deals with three legislations governing different aspects of disability, welfare and empowerment of the persons with disabilities. These are ...

My five-year-old son has been getting into trouble at school very often. He is a very sweet boy but very naughty. He doesn’t pay attention in class and doesn’t want to do his homework. Eve...

Barsha Deb would spend Durga Puja at home, stationed in front of the TV. But this year the 18-year-old got to visit a puja in south Calcutta, where special arrangements had been made for persons with ...

College students advocated the rights of individuals with autism at a debate held in the city on Friday. Students from 15 institutions from the city and abroad took part in the inter-college debate or...

My son walks on his toes all the time. Is this normal? Children sometimes walk on their toes but this usually corrects itself by the age of three. Habitual toe-walking after this age needs to be evalu...

Parliament passed a bill to streamline the appointment and resignation of members of a trust that helps persons with disability to live independently.The bill, which was passed by Lok Sabha on Thursda...

Educating and training the families of children with autism will help the young ones advance better, psychologists and psychiatrists said in the run-up to an autism conference in the city. The trainin...

Women with disabilities are more vulnerable to abuse, disability rights advocate Jeeja Ghosh said in the city on Friday.Their parents often want them to take up jobs in a sheltered environment instead...

The sooner the better — a formula a parent has to live by when bringing up a toddler. Children grow up fast but their brain or neurological development happens even faster, much faster than we reali...

We all think we are composed of human cells, but actually a part of us has always been alien, as we are colonised with microorganisms. Bacteria start living in our intestines soon after birth. These â...