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How a Transition Coordinator Can Prepare Your Child for Life After School
The transition from high school to whatever comes next can be stressful for students with special needs and their parents. Guiding them through this passage is a school transition coordinator or...
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5 Books for Those Supporting Individuals with Autism and Sensory Issues
Are you raising, teaching, or working with a child with special needs? This post introduces you to five wonderful books written by experts who work with individuals of all ages and abilities with...
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3 Benefits of a Sensory Gym for Your Child with Special Needs
The joys of parenting hold true no matter what your child’s abilities are. But when your child has a sensory processing disorder (SPD), you face a set of challenges most parents do not. Everyday...
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12 Items on Every Special Needs Parent’s Wish List
People are always asking you what your wish list is this time of year. And sure, you could get clothes or jewelry or gadgets just like any other adult human. But how do you let people know that what...
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How Homeschooling Can Work for Your Child with Learning Disabilities
When it comes to educating children with special needs, one size never fits all. Even when the diagnoses are the same, each child handles the struggle differently, responds differently, and learns...
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5 Organizations That Put Kids with Special Needs in the Pilot’s Seat
In a recent post, we shared a list of “11 Amazing Organizations Offering Private Flights for those with Medical Needs.” In researching that list, we came upon five organizations that, rather than fly...
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4 Ways to Maintain Therapeutic Progress During Winter Break
We all need a break sometimes, and our children are no exception. For parents of kids with special needs, winter break from school can bring concerns as well as wonderful opportunities. How do you...
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The Top 20 Special Needs Resource Posts of 2016
It’s the time of year where we all like to look back at the 12 months we just survived and remember what informed us, moved us, and amused us. The following top posts of 2016 are the most-viewed of the...
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8 Ways NOT to Find a Winter Coat for Your Child with Sensory Issues
Ah, winter coat season. That time of year when parents of kids with sensory processing disorder, unable to wrap their children in appropriately warming clothing, steel themselves for the icy blasts of...
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What You Should Know About Thumb-Sucking, Pacifiers, and Other Non-Nutritive...
Babies have the innate need to suck. It’s a reflex they are born with. Non-nutritive sucking (NNS) refers to a sucking behavior that does not provide any nutritional benefit. So nursing and...
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15 Special Needs Videos from 2016 That Will Amaze and Inspire
Facebook videos became a popular way to share experiences in 2016, and frequently in our newsfeeds we found inspirational looks into the lives of people with disabilities. Here are some of our favorite...
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Five Ways to Keep Learning Going Over School Break
“Keep your child learning over school break!” sounds like a great idea. Yet the thought of spending quality time together with flashcards and assigned reading and endless worksheets may have you...
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10 Special Needs Stories That Made Us Happy and Proud in 2016
Okay, if what you’re really looking for here at the end of a long year is a look back at the special needs stories that made your blood boil, there was this. And also this. And remember this, this, and...
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25 Lofty New Year’s Resolutions for Parents of Kids with Special Needs
A new year is upon us, and so we’re once again called upon to think about what we’d like to change about ourselves. As if we didn’t have enough on our plate, right? Adding the burden of new year’s...
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The Special Needs Calendar 2017: A Year Of Awareness Events [Infographic]
Every month of the year has awareness events designed to bring attention to diseases and disabilities. Some you may hear about on social media or the blogs you read regularly. Others are less...
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How Much Money Do You Need to Fund a Special Needs Trust?
What amount is needed to fund a special needs trust? There is no right or wrong answer to that question. It really depends on the needs of the child and the financial ability of the family. As parents...
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10 Ways for Special Needs Families to Get Organized in 2017
Organization for families of children with special needs comes in all sorts of forms, and the Friendship Circle blog has addressed many of them with posts full of tips and ideas. Here are 10 ways to...
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Does Dad Need to Show Up for Every Doctor’s Appointment?
Who takes the children to doctor’s appointments? This is a conversation all parents have, whether or not they have a kid with special needs. It really is a universal issue, but often with a child with...
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15 Companies Providing Clothing and Accessories for Children with Feeding Tubes
When your child needs a feeding tube, you have plenty of medical and logistical challenges to worry about. You shouldn’t have to worry about what your child can wear on top of it. Yet typical clothes...
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Five Children’s Book Series on Special Needs and Disabilities
Parents and teachers, are you looking for resources to make inclusion work in your school or community activities? The five books I want to tell you about come from book series on special needs and...
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