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Is Your Child Stressed Out? How to Recognize the Signs
Most adults these days are well familiar with stress. Work, finances, politics, relationships, even just listening to the news can ratchet up your stress level. Not to mention the stress of raising a...
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20 Signs You May Be Worrying Too Much About Your Child with Special Needs
“Stop worrying!” These are words I hear from my kids with annoying regularity. Considering that they’re the ones I’m worrying myself sick about, it seems uncharitable. If I don’t worry about them,...
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12 Educational Sites to Keep Your Child Learning All Summer
Websites and online services can be a great resource when trying to keep your child learning over the summer and other breaks from school. But it can be hard for parents to know which ones pack a lot...
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Making Summer BBQs and Picnics Safe for Your Child with Food Allergies
Summertime not only brings warm weather, vacations, and endless trips to the pool—it’s also time for BBQs. For the average person, BBQs equal fun, but for the 15 million Americans living with food...
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Create a Teacher Information Packet for Your Child with Special Needs
Worrying about the upcoming school year? Wondering how a new teacher will react to your child? It’s natural to want to send in a pile of stickie-noted books and a thick treatise on Everything There Is...
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Helping Your Child Deal with Bullies: Nine Posts for Parents
One of the biggest worries for parents sending their kids with special needs to school or camp or playgrounds or even online is the bullies that may be lying in wait. Kids with disabilities can be...
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How to Gamify Writing for Children with Special Needs
Writing essays, short stories, and other kinds of content is a necessary aspect of education. Your child has to learn how to express opinions in writing. This is a process that requires tons of...
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Preparing Your Child with Learning Differences for the Transition from...
So, you are getting your child ready for intermediate school — or whatever your school district calls that point at which kids leave the more protected world of elementary without quite jumping into...
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Five Ways to Get a Running Start on Your Back-to-School Advocacy
It may be tempting not to think much about back-to-school advocacy until school is almost back. We all need our summer breaks. But if you wait until the first day of school to get yourself ready for a...
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Addressing Your Child’s Behavior from a Neurodevelopmental Perspective
When a child is struggling with behavior or social/emotional challenges, families often feel as if they are in turmoil. Surely, for a parent, there is no greater concern than the well-being of your...
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4 Ways Apps Can Help Children with Special Needs
There’s a raging debate centered around technology use and handhelds for kids. Are they good, bad, or downright ugly? The answer is all three, of course! Too much screen time has been proven to cause...
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Special Needs in the News: 19 Stories You May Have Missed from July 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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Developing Community for Your Child with a Circle of Friends
School inclusion is exciting in its promise of creating opportunities for all children, with and without disabilities, to learn and grow together. But to develop community and meaningful connections...
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Experts Answer Your Questions on Helping Kids with Autism Interact and Play
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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7 Writing Tools to Try for Children with Special Needs
One of the things I work on as a pediatric occupational therapist is improving handwriting skills in children of all ages. There are a variety of reasons children come to see me when they have been...
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On the Importance of Joy for Children with Special Needs
We worry so much about whether our children are where they are “supposed” to be. Are they performing at the right grade level, fitting in, playing soccer like all children seem obligated to these days?...
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Six Ways to Help Your Sensitive Child Respond More Successfully
Most parents would tell you that sensitive kids usually arrive that way. By nature, sensitive children seem more “touchy” from birth: they’re more sensitive to sound and change, tear up easily, and...
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Let Us Help You Find That Special Needs Parenting Book You’re Looking For
Even in this age when so much information is right at our googling fingertips, books on parenting special needs and on the experience of people with disabilities are still an important tool for parents...
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Special Needs Planning: Considerations for Extended Family
It’s wonderful when families of children with special needs have a support system that’s strong and reliable. Your extended family members likely want to do what they can to provide help and love. That...
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Say This, Not That: 7 Talking Tips for Parents of Teens with Special Needs
Raising young children is hard work. Then your kids reach the teen years, and it becomes a different kind of hard. Teenagers can be difficult to read and even harder to communicate with. Raising teens...
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