Mom Approved Gifts: Perfect Season for Fun
Mom Approved Gifts Buying gifts for a child or teen with special needs can prove challenging. As a Mom to a son who has Cerebral Palsy, I have struggled over...
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Brain Games for the Season
Brain Games Everywhere you look these days it seems that there is information about building our brain’s capacity and skill. “Change your brain and you’ll change your life,” they say....
Sharing! Updates: Hypoallergenic Peanuts, Doodle Bugs, & Robots4Autism
Hypoallergenic Peanuts Hypoallergenic peanut products could someday be available to the millions of Americans allergic to regular peanuts. Researchers from North Carolina’s Agricultural and Technical State University have developed a...
Check it Out! Products You Can Use: Have a Ball
All ages and all abilities are ready to break out of the winter doldrums and get outside to release their pent-up energy. What better way than bouncing, dribbling, throwing, catching...
Check It Out! Products You Can Use: Put Time on Their Side
Put Time on Their Side Planning is a skill many people struggle with so it’s a wonderful skill to begin teaching at an early age. Kids tend to live in...
Special Resources: Online Specialty Stores for Children with Special Needs Holiday Shopping Just Got Easier
Specialty Stores for Children with Special Needs Different Roads to Learning Different Roads to Learning is founded to help teachers and parents give every young student on the autism spectrum...
To the Holidays and Beyond!
A movie that has become a childhood classic, and favorite for kids and parents alike, Toy Story, leads to a lesson in staying-power. The main character, Andy, etched his name...
The Upside of Making Your Own Educational Toys
I remember the first time I brought an educational toy. It was a shape sorter in which the square block fits in the square hole, the ball in the round...
Check It Out! Products You Can Use: Learning Not Limited to Classrooms
Learning Not Limited to Classrooms As summer winds down, and the buzz in the air shifts from cicadas to grumbles about school, there are a few things to help get...
Special Needs Toy Buying Guide: Answering Many of the Questions About Buying the Right Toy.
What toy will be best for my child? What are the safety considerations I should be aware of? What features should I look for in a toy?