Hopefully, Our Children Can Go to Therapy Again...

It is not easy to take care of children with special needs during the Covid-19 pandemic. Parents have to work more than usual as they have to be a companion, a therapist and a teacher for their children.

Kompas/Bahana Patria Gupta

Children with Down syndrome perform the Jaranan dance during the Children\'s Day Festival at the Office of the Coordinating Board for Social Welfare Activities (BKKKS), East Java Province, Surabaya, Thursday (27/8/2020). This activity is to provide creative space for children, especially those with special needs.

Gita Pratiwi (30), mother of Abam (4), a child with special needs (ABK) with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), face difficulty in finding a therapy center during the pandemic.

Gita’s son urgently needs a therapy class. Gita has visited more than four therapy centers in Bandung, West Java, but only one remains open.