Our Superheroes

                     

                          Our Superheroes

April 2nd 2021-WAAD

On this World Autism Awareness Day, instead of focusing on the hurdles we face on a daily basis ,we present before you the creative side of a few of our superheroes and on how we enjoy our life. Let's have a glimpse of our kid's creative side and appreciate them. Celebrating the unique talents...
Enjoy😊

*Little Manu (kindergardener) is a creative child who is a pattern maker .He loves making patterns and models using legos and building blocks .He compares the models he made, balances the legos and is quite strict about the colour choices he makes. He feels happy, energized, motivated and joyful playing with legos.

*Omkar is in primary schooler who loves craft. Have a look at the craft he has made. The hat ,the card and the mask is part of craft work from his school.For a young boy he is, his scissor skills should be much appreciated.

 *Ibrahim Surej is an 8 year old boy who was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of 2. He is a visual seeker who was always fond of moving vehicles,colors,shapes and cooking. He started using watercolor in September 2020, whithout any formal training and used to get irritated when others guided him. So he was left alone with colors and paper and the rest was magic!!Everytime he used different colors and started painting patterns. His psychologist claims that he is unknowingly using this as an expressive art form for emotional ventilation. He always uses colors from light to dark which shows his emotional scale. One side is fire and the other side he mellows down. The work seems to reflect his unfiltered, unpretentious thought and an invitation to his colourful world.The particular work was done when Piano music was played in the background.

Ibrahim's world of vehicles

*Mia ,primary schooler is a young girl who loves colours and craft.Have a look at the varied objects she has used right from the candy wrapper to wild flowers to describe her thoughts,wishes and desires.She is creative indeed.Don't you feel?

*Little Ramsha's Q-tip painting reminds us of a beautiful garden.From her paintings, we get a feeling that she is an admirer of pastels,persimmons, mint and salmon shades.Green and Red represents determination ,ambition,passion and energy. Through pink she exhibits her unconditional love and nurturing nature.

*AadiNarayanan,a middle schooler is a Kochi based budding poet who writes in English and Malayalam.He expresses his deep thoughts and dreams through his poems..Here, is a poem by Aadi in Malayalam for us...

"My own life dream

പുഷ്പങ്ങളും,എൻ്റെ മോഹങ്ങളും

_____________________

ആര് നീ അല്ലയോ പുഷ്പമേ

എൻ്റെ അകതാരിൽ സൗഗന്ധം നിറയ്ക്കും

എൻ്റെ മനോഹര പുഷ്പമേ 

നീ എനിക്ക് പുതുജീവൻ നൽകി

ഞാൻ എൻ്റെ ജീവിതം നിന്നില് കാണിക്ക അർപ്പിക്കുന്നു

ഞാൻ നിന്നെ തേടി അലയുന്നു

എൻ്റെ മോഹനസ്വപ്നങ്ങളും ജീവിതവും 

ഞാൻ നിന്നിൽ അർപ്പിക്കുന്നു"

_Aadi Narayanan Nair

*Sammy,is a middle schooler,a young talent who loves craft work to express himself.Here is a Christmas tree art he made as part of his school project.The cutting and pasting skills are to be much appreciated.He has chosen contrasting colours to distinguish each element he has put up..Clever work.

*Christy is a  high school student,who loves travelling, photography and adventure sports. Check out the visual and spatial intelligence he exhibits through his  i Phone nature photography. Mesmerising is one word that suits his skills..

 *Michael,a middle schooler trying cajon drumming.Drumming enables self expression,relieves stress,helps learn rhythm, increases self confidence and its a good physical work for active kids.

*Christy and Michael kayaking.Kayaking helps to improve concentration,balancing and enhances upper body strength.

*Sherin Mary Zachariah,is a Kochi based writer and poet.She has published three books in Malayalam..
                             മഴവില്ല്
           എൻറെ മനസ്സിലെ ചിന്തകൾ
                    സ്നേഹ സമ്മാനം

Her collection of English poem and prose is published as "Moonlight"

After meeting her,Dr Sashi Tharoor tweeted that "Differently abled means just that,she has abilities many nonautistic people doesnot have.Her words penetrate the mist"

Sherin has received many awards and accolades like Revel Internet Poetry Prize,Autistic Marvel Talent Hunt Award,Unseen and Unspoken Poetry Competition and so on..

Here we have a poem by Sherin for this blog..

https://youtu.be/Oawh4EMg0WM

Listen to the above link ,one of Sherin's poems

Can we ever forget that voice reciting the poem?

Prashanth Gangadharan ,a beautiful soul and member who parted with this world..A charismatic person who made learning a fun activity,the founder of Learning Alternatives.

Taking this opportunity to remember Prashanth and express our love and gratitude.

*Nikhil SaiPrasad..wow..its awesome to watch someone who never runs out of colours.His paintings are a wild swirl of colours. Colours are his silent notes by which he expresses himself and his thoughts.He is limitless,observes everything and displays his ethereal emotions onto the canvas.Nikhil's life revolves around the hues,the chromes,the crimson,the blues and blacks. ..

The radiant and saturated warm tones might be an expression of warmth or dazzling sunlight with conjures the memories of summer time or an expression of anger.The colours he chose represents desire,luminism,happiness,spring optimism..The colour tones are calming yet so powerful and are of serious nature..The blues represent freedom,intuition imagination..

https://www.facebook.com/nikkisaiprasad/

Check out Nikhil's Art and Music  in the above fb page.Support the young talent.Nikhil loves playing piano ,listening to his mother humming to the songs.

*Prateik Panigrahi is young talent who wishes to be a playback singer and you can check out his YouTube channel here..Kindly subscribe to his channel and support him.

https://youtu.be/lN3JFkdJCSc

*Akshay Bhatnagar is someone who needs no description..He is a famous youth,all over India ,who has come over all odds of life..

Akshay Bhatnagar has won Bronze medal in 17 th National Para CP Atheleics Championship held in Patna.

Read about him here.

https://akshaydefeatsautism.com/

These are some of the ways by which our kids motivate themselves to be occupied.A few others are excellent in computer skills and let's hope they will prove themselves excellent in their own chosen fields.

Celebrate the positives rather than focusing on the negatives

Be happy and content in the present😊

Thanking you all...

Swapna Jose Luke.

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