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...
Real Moms Share: Why Lola Won’t Be Going to School This Year
Today is the first day of school for kids going to school at the Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (ISBVI). Normally, Lola would be waking up at...
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....
Tips from a Tutor About Reading
Reading When we think about educating our children, special needs children included, there is no more important skill than being able to read. Reading helps us understand the world around...
Wellness: Breakfast for Champions
Breakfast for Champions How many times have you heard, “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day?” The word “breakfast” means breaking the fasting period of the previous night....
Did You Know? Special Ed Classrooms Get Cameras, College or Technical Scholarship Available, & Healthy Vision Checklist
Special Ed Classrooms Get Cameras A new mandate in Texas says that Special Ed Classrooms will get cameras. The cameras are intended to ensure the safety of students with disabilities...
Mommy’s Timeout: Erg Chebbi Morocco
Take a time out and use visualization meditation to relax. Imagine yourself walking at the top of Erg Chebbi, one of Morocco’s two Saharan ergs – large dunes formed...
Meet Isaiah, Samuel and Elijah
Isaiah, Samuel and Elijah This issue’s cover photo was sent to us by proud Mom, Jami De La Cerda. It features her son, Isaiah, 13, and twins, Samuel and Elijah,...
Cooking with Kids: No-Bake Watermelon Cake
Encourage Learning and Speech while Creating Yum! No-Bake Watermelon Cake Watermelon Cake is a summer tradition in our house. I just love that this recipe is so simple to make...