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10 Winter Break Activities for Emotional Bonding with your Special Child
Winter break can be a tense and confusing time for many children with special needs, but there is one thing can can improve the situation: love. Here are 10 relationship-building activities for your...
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13 Special Needs Organizations in Israel You Should Know About
Israel offers a number of non-profits offering programs, services, and support to individuals with special needs. Here are a sampling of 13 amazing organizations in Israel.
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Friendship Circle’s 12 Favorite Facebook Moments of 2015
As you may know, Friendship Circle has a vibrant Facebook page with almost 70,000 followers. We post a mix of content that show highlights from our programs, resources from special needs blog posts,...
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LeBron James, Larry Fitzgerald, Luke Kuechly and More Special Needs News from...
As December comes to an end, we bring you some inspiring and interesting special needs news stories. A common theme this month was a number of sports stars taking some time out to recognize and spend...
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A Special Needs Guide to Wandering and Elopement
For most people, the word “elopement” conjures up the image of lovers running away to get married. For the rest of us, it means something terrifying: a cherished family member with limited...
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The Top 10 Special Needs Blog Posts of 2015
As 2015 comes to a close, we took at our blog posts written this year to see what interested our readers. Six authors contributed to these popular posts which generated over 190,000 collective views....
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13 New Year’s Resolutions Every Special Needs Parent Should Make
Go to the gym, eat healthier, turn off the smartphone at dinner, spend more time with family…It’s that time of year when we take the opportunity to wipe our slate clean by making (and hopefully...
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13 Special Needs Videos that went Viral in 2015
2015 had many heartwarming moments that were shared via social media, and we decided to put them all in one place for our readers to enjoy. In case you missed any of these fantastic moments in the...
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The Special Needs Calendar 2016: A Year Of Awareness [Infographic]
In the special needs community, there are some very important awareness days and months on the calendar. Here is a graphic that will help raise awareness of many syndromes and conditions.
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55 Easy Items to Include in a Sensory Table at Home or School
Looking to create a sensory table for a child with special needs at home or in school? This list of 55 items will make it easy to create the perfect sensory table!
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What Mountain Climbers and Individuals with Special Needs Have in Common
A valuable lesson we can learn from individuals with special needs on effort vs. performance.
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SwiftKey Symbols Aims to Reduce Communication Barriers with New App
Special needs app SwiftKey Symbols aims to reduce communication barriers using predictive technology and symbols instead of text.
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6 Simple Tips for Decluttering Your Home and Your Life
With all the special needs-related items that us special needs parents spend so much of our time on, it would make sense that we get a free pass when it comes to keeping the house clean! Sadly, this...
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5 Ways to Incorporate Heavy Work into a Special Education Classroom
Back to school! Parents are delighted and kids, well, maybe not so excited. And teachers? I’m guessing most of you are ready to get back to your curriculum. As you tread back into the New Year, don’t...
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5 Ways to Incorporate Visual Supports in Everyday Routines
Visual Supports can be excellent tools for helping reduce negative behaviors and improve predictability within a child’s routine. What is a visual support? A visual support refers to using a picture or...
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10 Special Needs Organizations You Should Know About
In case you aren’t already aware, there’s a plethora of organizations offering programs and services to the special needs community of families. What we’ve done here is narrow the group down to 10...
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GPS SmartSole Gives Peace of Mind to Parents of Wanderers
Over the past four years, we have covered a number of articles about individuals with special needs that have a tendency to wander/elope and the numerous tracking devices on the market that are...
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5 Ways a Father Can Maximize Time With Their Child with Special Needs
Whether we like it our not, it is a given that most dads spend less time with their children due to work (obviously, there are situations where the dad stays home while the mom works full-time or the...
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5 Things You Should Know About Cyberbullying and Your Child with Special Needs
The explosion of the digital age has opened up a window to be virtually connected to anyone in the world; and while online connection has created opportunity beyond the imaginable, our society is now...
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4 Ways to Help Your Child With Special Needs Find Meaningful Employment
My son Matt is living with a disability, and as he transitions from high school, he’s exploring what it means to be an adult. Matt, like so many people with disabilities, wants to contribute to...
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