Organizing Your Child’s Special Education File: Do It Right
The special education system generates mountains of paper. What do you do with it? How do you organize this information?
Family Life
In the Spotlight The Whole Spectrum of Social, Motor and Sensory Games
Using Every Child’s Natural Love of Play to Enhance Key Skills and Promote Inclusion
Treasured Tradition: Expressing Gratitude and Encouraging Speech Around the Table
In an effort to help encourage speech, language, communications and conversations with my daughter, we started a little tradition
Reluctantly Related: 5 Tips to Help You be Thankful, not Resentful, this Holiday.
Does the thought of spending Thanksgiving with your in-laws send you running for the hills? You’re not alone…
Real Moms Share: Carmen Noonan shares her thoughts about her “learning journey”
Carmen Noonan is a wife, mother, volunteer, community activist and the “CEO of her household”. She is contributing to this issue’s “Real Moms Share” section. We asked her to give...
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year… Or Is It?
Many say that “It’s the most wonderful time of the year”, however, with this ‘wonderful time’ comes irregular schedules, large family gatherings, travel, unfamiliar food, interrupted sleep patterns and other...
Relative Remarks!
Question: How to keep the peace at family gatherings? Advice: Over the years, I have had families of special needs children bring up the topic of “ridiculous and insensitive things...
Making the Holidays Enjoyable
Question: I hate to leave my child out of all the holiday festivities. What can I do to make the holidays enjoyable for everyone? Answer: The holidays can be a...
Saying “No offense”, can still be Offensive!
This incident really put a strain on our friendship (well, from my perspective anyway). It brings tears to my eyes now as I am writing this, because
Meet Sarah Cook from Cookwire Photography
Sarah has been a contributing photographer to Parenting Special Needs since 2010. We thought we’d have her share a little about herself
