Photosensitive Epilepsy

Abstract

educational and activity projects to improve cooperation and help children to understand and respect others.'This encourages children to feel involved, and grow as responsible adults.As a volunteer I got the opportunity to attend some weekend camps.Here I had to improvise games, make toys, and join the children in play to kindle their enthusiasm, before they could accept me as their peer.Once accepted, they discussed their personal problems and worries.In one of the camps, I noticed a girl aged 12, who was withdrawn, and not actively participating in games.When she got to know me better, she confessed that 'her walk was funny', and so wanted to avoid any one noticing it.I could not see any abnormal gait, but understood that she had developed a complex.Her father had always mocked her walking.After a long discussion, and involving her friends, we restored her confidence.Similarly children who had concealed their asthma medication, coughed all night.Once I got to know about this, I helped them to understand their illness, and they took their medication regularly.These informal discussions with children helped me to understand their problems, and improved my communication with them.I feel that every doctor or a nurse who is working with children should seek similar opportunities, and attend camps to educate themselves, and learn the art of communicat- ing and understanding their young clients better.Encouraging this type of activity helps children learn to cooperate with others, and live in harmony as well behaved youngsters.This may help us to keep youngsters off the streets, and also decrease their antisocial activities in the community.