Comfort, presence and dignity where words never reach elenapap.com | Psychology Office, Constanța "Many have asked me why I keep talking to him, why I play music for him, why I tell him about my day. 'He doesn't understand,' they told me. Maybe. But his breathing changes when my voice is warm. That's enough for…
Communication beyond words, dignity beyond diagnosis elenapap.com | Psychology Cabinet, Constanța „She doesn't talk. She'll probably never go to the bathroom alone. But she smiles when she hears my voice from the other room, before she sees me. That tells me everything I need to know — that she recognizes me, that she's waiting for me.” Severe intellectual disability…
Sustained support, small steps and a life built to suit the child "I knew from the early years that something was different about my son. He spoke less, he had a harder time learning the things that his brothers had picked up on the fly. The diagnosis didn't surprise me — but the question that followed scared me: and now, how do I…
The child who just needs a little more time and the right support "No one had noticed anything in kindergarten. In first grade, the teacher told me that my daughter was lagging behind in almost all subjects. I didn't understand why — at home she talked, played, seemed like a normal child. It wasn't until the psychological evaluation that I understood what...
Intellectual disability (known in the past under stigmatizing names that we have now eliminated from clinical language) is one of the most misunderstood diagnoses. There is a tendency to view it as a final sentence, a wall that the child will not be able to overcome.