Getting Ready for Summer Fun: Being GFCF & Other Healthy Ideas
Being GFCF & Other Healthy Ideas It’s warming up all across the nation. The feel of summer is in the air. Summer equates with warm weather, cool foods, and traveling....
Health & Fitness
Fitness Challenge: Follow-up and Follow-through
Fitness Challenge Since the first part of this article was published in the March/April issue of PSN, a study conducted out of the University of California, Davis, suggests a relationship...
Changing Lives,One Goal at a Time
Team sports are one of the defining experiences of childhood. Weekday practices, Saturdays on the field, victory, defeat and a sense of
Doug’s out of the Classroom “Sweet Tooth” Rules to Follow This Summer
Vacation wouldn’t be complete without those summer treats for the kids. Research shows that restricting
CAMP LIFE Changes Lives
CAMP LIFE At the age of 14, a seed of inspiration was planted in Sterling Leija. She began volunteering at a camp for children with special needs called Camp CAMP...
Don’t Fear the Easter Bunny! How to Avoid Harmful Easter Candy
Harmful Easter Candy A bunny with temper tantrums? An irritable, over-active rabbit who could not concentrate long enough to sort Easter baskets? “That’s what the Easter Bunny would be like...
Fitness Challenge
Fitness Challenge Having written dozens of articles about fitness for the autism and special needs population over the past 8 years I’ve learned, omitted, added, and altogether changed much of...
A New Year & a New Autism Model Is Emerging
A New Year & a New Autism Model Is Emerging Autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by malfunctions in social interaction, communication, behavioral stereotypes,...
Maintaining Healthy Changes
Maintaining Healthy Changes Most people who try to lose weight fail to keep it off. Why? They fail to make changes that will last them a lifetime. Instead, they opt...
Starting off the New Year with New Food Choices
New Food Choices By now you have thought about your New Year’s Resolution and perhaps you tried it and failed. Maybe you are still thinking about it? Why not consider...
