Ability or Disability: An Unforgettable Experience at a Specialist School
Every human is precious with a special quality, and there are quite many of them at specialist schools.…
Children
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Touched by a Small Kindness
When a professor of Turkish language and literature is met by Turkish hospitality during a short stopover, she…
Little Professor Syndrome
Autism—and its milder cousin Asperger’s—affects 1 in 150 children across the US. Speculation goes that people like Albert Einstein,…
What Generations Expect from Education
What do we mean when we mention education and training in relation to our current and future generations?…
Basis for Christian-Muslim Dialogue
Whenever I watch and read about killings and terrorism in the name of religion today, the music of…
Reward and Praise in Education: When, How and for What Purpose?
“Good grades pay off literally. Teachers have long said that success is its own reward. But these days,…
A Present of The Presence Through Three Dripping Snow-cones
“I want to start fasting this year during the month of Ramadan” she said with a serious tone…
Compatibility of Modern Psychology and Muslims
“Surely God changes not the conditions of a people, unless they change what is with their selves.” Qur’an…
For the Sake of Autism…
The courtyard vibrated at the sound of the school bell. Immediately the playground burst into life as children…
Coping with Autism
“When I took my one-year old son to the supermarket, he never responded to other mothers’ playful overtures.…
Delay of Gratification and Spirituality
We are living in a world in which everything changes very quickly; throughout the world immediacy rules. Industrial…
Lost
I was only a girl of nine years when I first witnessed Mom’s nightmare. My dad had gone…
Is Humanity Dead?
“A once-in-a-lifetime event” or “the worst for 60 years” is how the drought in Africa today is being…
Paths Ahead: Reflections on Bosnian Muslim Presence in the United States
This commentary offers a few reflections on the impact of the American experience on the formation of a…
Your sleep shapes your hair
1- Your sleep shapes your hair Original Article: Akashi M. et al., PNAS 107, 15643 (2010). Feeling sleepy…