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If a child is going to receive support for a developmental disability, the single factor that most reliably determines how much that support will help is when it begins. Not which programme. Not which therapist. Not which facility. When. The evidence on early intervention for developmental disabilities ( cerebral palsy, autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome, intellectual disability, and related conditions ) is among the most consistent in all of developmental science. Inter

Of all the therapies used in disability rehabilitation, hydrotherapy has one of the longest track records. It has been used for musculoskeletal and neuromuscular rehabilitation for over a century . It is also one of the most misunderstood — often assumed to be simply swimming, or a gentler version of physiotherapy, when it is actually something meaningfully different from both. This article explains what hydrotherapy is, what it does that land-based therapy cannot replicate,

Thailand has had a law requiring employers to hire people with disabilities since 2007. Nineteen years later, only around 6% of working-age disabled people  in Thailand are in formal employment. That gap between legislation and reality is the subject of this article — what the law says, why it has not closed the gap on its own, and what it actually takes to move a person with disabilities from a training programme into paid work. If you are a donor, grant-maker, or employer t

If you have never heard of DohsaHou, you are not alone. Outside Japan and a small number of specialist centres across Asia, it remains largely unknown to families and practitioners. But for children with cerebral palsy, autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome, and intellectual disabilities, it has been part of clinical practice for nearly six decades. The Dulabhatorn Foundation includes it as part of its therapy programme alongside hydrotherapy and adaptive climbing — and thi

Act Now Children's Fund Teams Up With The Dulabhatorn Foundation On 14 March 2026, the Dulabhatorn Foundation welcomed a delegation from Act Now Children's Fund to our campus in Sansai District. The visit included a tour of DBF's facilities, including the organic farm and vegetable garden that supply our training cafe, and concluded with the donation of essential supplies and resources for our beneficiaries and their families. Act Now Children's Fund is a Thailand-based orga