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5 Books That Can Help Inspire Your Child with Special Needs
As a speech language pathologist and parent, I love to use storytelling as an opportunity to initiate meaningful conversations and encourage children to follow their dreams regardless of their...
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Prepare for Success When Traveling with Your Child with Special Needs
Whether you’re driving or flying, traveling has a unique way of causing exorbitant amounts of stress. You worry if you’ve packed all the essentials and you play out every possible disaster scenario in...
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8 Helpful Articles on Mental Health Issues for Children with Special Needs
May is Mental Health Month. Since children with special needs often face mental health issues, we’ve gathered eight posts from our archives to inform and enlighten parents and provide strategies for...
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Experts on Helping Children with Autism Communicate Answer Your Questions
Rhea Paul and Donia Fahim, authors of Let’s Talk: Navigating Communication Services and Supports for Your Young Child with Autism, have offered to answer questions from Friendship Circle readers on how...
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Helping Your Child with Special Needs Develop Empathy
All parents want to see their children grow up to be as happy, successful, and productive as possible. But perhaps even more important to most parents is to see their kids — including those with...
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Books on Child Development, Autistic Teens and Young Adults, and Autism and...
Raising children is difficult. Parents are often overwhelmed and insecure. If you are looking for practical advice for parents on everything you need to know about oral development from birth to 8...
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Try This Technique for Helping Your Child with Description and Written...
Does your child have a learning disability in oral expression or written expression? Perhaps a language impairment affects your child’s ability to describe things in an organized way? Maybe your child...
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Five Unexpected Places to Find Disability-Related Products Online
Sure, you know all the specialty websites for occupational therapy gadgets. You’ve pored over resource lists to find companies catering directly to your family’s needs. You’ve bookmarked your...
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A Day in the Life of an ADD/ADHD Homeschool Classroom
Teaching children who struggle with attention issues and hyperactivity requires a specific set of strategies to help them manage wiggles and outbursts and focus on their work. It also requires a lot of...
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21 Special Needs News Stories from May 2017
On our Special Needs Resources Facebook page, we gather links every day to special needs news stories and blog posts of interest we’ve found around the Internet. Once a month, we’ll gather those...
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9 Board Games to Get Kids Thinking, Moving, and Working Together
Could your family use a few new games? If you’ve had it with standard-issue board games like Candyland and Monopoly, consider these games that are favorites of the kids I work with as a pediatric...
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Advocating for Your Child with Special Needs in a Way That Promotes...
As the mom of a now-adult special-needs kid, I’ve been thinking a lot about what we did that helped, what I wish we hadn’t wasted time and money on (there will always be a lot in that category, so...
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100 Ways People Are Judging Your Parenting Right Now
On the Internet. At the mall. In the grocery store. At school. Everywhere, it seems, are experts in parenting not just their own children, not just children in general, but your specific child — and...
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Five Goals to Work on This Summer with Your Child with Special Needs
“Hi, Greer! Any ideas? What do you guys do in the summer?” That’s the text a friend sent me. And I understand her concern. Summer is precious, the days are scarce, and we want them to matter. Some of...
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Preparing Teachers for Inclusion: What Still Needs to Be Done
An important part of making inclusion work in our schools and for our kids is making sure teachers are well-equipped for this new way of doing things. In the first half of this interview, published...
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Ten Twitter Accounts to Follow for Inclusion Inspiration
A great way to keep up with what’s going on with inclusion is to follow people who are passionate about it on Twitter. You’ll find links to news stories, opinion pieces, and how-tos every day to...
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10 Ways to Help Your Angry Child Get Control Over Those Bad Feelings
Yelling. Fighting. Hitting. Tantrums. Biting. Sound familiar? These are typical behaviors of quick-to-anger children. Other kids hold their intense feelings inside, with unreleased anger and pent-up...
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Creating a Safe Camp Experience for Your Child with Food Allergies
As a parent of a teen with food allergies, I find the thought of sending him to camp rather daunting. My thoughts go directly to food fights, teen counselors who are there for all the wrong reasons,...
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Twelve Sensory Strategies for a Sensational Summer
Yahoo! Summer is here … and so are your kids. Even if you’ve packed those months off full of camps, vacations, and outings, you may find there is downtime to deal with. Boredom is not a bad thing when...
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What Dads of Kids with Special Needs Really Want for Father’s Day
Father’s Day is upon us, and if you’re like many people, you’ve probably put your shopping off to the last minute. I am both a father and a son, so I am familiar with, and have made grudging peace...
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