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20 Alternative Date Night Ideas for Parents of Children with Special Needs
It’s not that likely you’ll be able to get a babysitter to watch your special kid, sure. Work conflicts and appointments and homework and routines are all going to stand in your way, absolutely. The...
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You Can Help a Child With Special Needs Get an Adaptive Bike through the...
The 6th Annual Great Bike Giveaway has been gathering registrations over the past two weeks of children with special needs who need adaptive bikes. February 15 marks the day when donors who want to...
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Five Books for Helping a Child with Special Needs Be Prepared for School and...
Have you been struggling to teach a child with learning challenges? Do you feel like you are failing as a homeschooling teacher or as a parent of a child with special needs? If you have been searching...
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Improving Communication Between Parents to Enforce Rules and Routines
For parents of children with special needs, creating a happy home for everyone depends on maintaining a tailored routine. This structure will help the child thrive and prevent disharmony in the family....
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7 Special Needs Parenting Podcasts Worth Listening To
When I first found out that my child had a learning disability, I sat down in front of the computer and didn’t move for days. I was on a mission to find any and every piece of information there was to...
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11 Questions to Ask About Your Child’s Resource Room Placement
It sounds good on paper: your child with special learning needs in a mainstream classroom will get specialized help a few days a week from a special education teacher to reinforce concepts learned and...
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The Easiest Home Modifications You Can Make for Your Child With a Disability
If your child is living with a disability, you may be thinking about all the ways you’ll need to modify your home in order to make it more accessible and safe. Along with that comes considerations...
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51 Websites, Videos, and Other Resources on Noonan Syndrome
Noonan syndrome has been called “one of the most common rare syndromes you’ve never heard of.” It is a genetic disorder that causes abnormal development of multiple parts of the body. Part of a group...
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What’s Going On in the Great Bike Giveaway
For the 6th consecutive year, Friendship Circle is holding the Great Bike Giveaway, an annual campaign that strives to provide as many adaptive bikes as possible to children and teens with special...
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19 Special Needs News Stories from February 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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10 Things You Can Do to Help “Spread the Word to End the Word”
Every year since 2009, March 1 has been a special day to “Spread the Word to End the Word” — that is, participate in the Special Olympics campaign to abolish the R-word from everyday speech. Of course,...
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Five Critical Areas To Strengthen Your Child’s Skills for Adulthood
Do you worry about your child after graduation from the school system? Most of us parents do. So, because early intervention starts today, begin preparing your child now in these five critical areas:...
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4 Steps to Fostering Independence in Children with Special Needs
I once heard a woman talk about the hand she had craved all her life: the hand that would hold her through challenges, direct her out of misery, walk her over to her pile of success, and bang open the...
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How to Keep Students with Disabilities Safe in Lockdowns, Evacuations, and...
With lockdowns and evacuation drills becoming a regular occurrence in schools, students with disabilities are often faced with disruptions of routine, unrealistic behavior expectations, accessibility...
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Purim, Passover, and Autism Spectrum Disorder: Recognizing and Dealing with...
The Jewish holiday of Purim starts next week; a month later, Passover will arrive. These holidays can be very stressful for children and adolescents who have autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and for...
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Why Kids Have Trouble Sitting Still—and What Parents and Teachers Can Do...
It’s the second most frequent request I get in my work with teachers and parents: “My student/child has trouble sitting still. Do you have a cushion that will help?” So what’s the number-one request?...
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What You Need to Know Before You Buy a Weighted Blanket
You may have heard about the benefits of weighted blankets from an occupational therapist or another parent or even a post on this blog. If you’ve never actually seen or owned one, though, you may have...
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12 More Sensory-Friendly-Style Events We’d Like to See in Our Communities
More and more, we hear about theaters and stores having sensory-friendly or autism-friendly events. They’re reaching out to families of kids with special needs and helping them get out of the house and...
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Respecting Parents’ Feelings in Special Education Planning: 8 Facts to Remember
I was sitting in one of those meetings where everyone wished they were someplace else. The fake smiles could not dissipate the thick fog of tension that impaired our vision. I, the parent of a child...
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7 Resources on Finding a Summer Camp for Your Child with Special Needs
Summer may be a long way off, but “thinking about summer camp” season is upon us. If you’re planning to send your child to a special-needs camp, it may already be just about time to get that...
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