Your Aura and Its Connection to Alternative Medicine
In 2006, I resigned my faculty position at the medical school where I had worked for twelve years. I felt strongly that there had to be a better way, a...
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Language and Literacy Learning: Success With Technology
Language and Literacy Learning: Success With Technology The playing field for emergent language and literacy learning may be more level than ever for children with complex communication needs. Technologies designed...
Supporting Teen Behavior and Loving Relationships
Supporting Teen Behavior and Loving Relationships What happened to my loving, cooperative child? Many parents of children with special needs find themselves frustrated when their tried-and true strategies stop working...
Strategies for Great IEP Meetings
I have attended countless IEP meetings and worn various hats: mother, friend, advocate, and professional. The most difficult were, without a doubt, those IEP meetings for my (now 20-year-old) daughter....
Relationship Rescue: Helping Your Child Learn Different Tasks
Dear Robin: Question: I get very frustrated sometimes when trying to help my child learn different tasks. It gets to the point that I just want to simply do it...
4 Stages of Exercise Mastery
4 Stages of Exercise Mastery For several months Karl and Jack, two of my young adult athletes, were working towards medicine ball push throws without my providing a visual prompt....
Journal Writing Can Help You to Reconnect with Yourself
Journal Writing Can Help You to Reconnect with Yourself If you are like me, after purchasing one of those pretty journals, you come home wondering what may be the best...
Help Your Child Develop Self-Discipline For Life Success
Help Your Child Develop Self-Discipline For Life Success Whether adults assume the role or not, they are fundamental guideposts that help pave the way for children to succeed in life....
Inclusion: Why It Matters?
Inclusion: Why It Matters? Many people, in recent years, have asked me about my daughter’s education. “Why inclusion?” they ask. “Don’t you believe that Emily will be better off with...
How Can My Child Be Independent?
How Can My Child Be Independent? Independent / independence …. Not influenced or controlled by others in matters of opinion, conduct, etc.; thinking or acting for oneself. We usually associate...