2017 Cover Winner: Amelia Grace Vitacco
Amelia Grace Vitacco This issue’s cover features 6-year-old Amelia Grace Vitacco. Amelia has been diagnosed with Down’s syndrome and she loves to dance, play with her dolls and have tea...
Parenting
Mommy’s Timeout: Daffodil Field
Take a time out and use visualization meditation to relax. Imagine yourself standing in this field of Daffodil’s. Take a couple of deep breaths and begin to let go...
Taking Care of Your Child’s Special Food Needs
Taking Care of Your Child’s Special Food Needs In the age of technology, where everyday another computerized item seems to be popping up on the market, we have to look...
Spring into Good Health
Spring into Good Health Now that we are almost out of winter and headed for spring, we can concentrate on how we can get our bodies into shape. It may...
Cooking with Kids: Peanut & Apple Butter French Toast Bake
Make Cooking Fun And Educational! Peanut & Apple Butter French Toast Bake Brunch is Served! This French toast bake recipe is easy and will help teach our children to cook...
Fun Food Apps to Encourage Healthy Eating
Fun Food Apps How many of us remember our parents telling us “Don’t play with your food!” as we were growing up? Well, the apps listed below encourage talking about...
Staying Healthy with a Proper Diet
Proper Diet What if the big pharmaceutical companies went out of business because their star drug was proven to cause serious and irreversible damage to the human body? What if...
The Gut-Brain Connection and Children with Special Needs
Gut-Brain Connection The gut-brain connection may have a direct impact on children with special needs. Deep in the walls of the digestive system is the body’s “second brain”. This enteric...
Organizing Your Child’s Brain Through Crawling and Creeping
Crawling and Creeping When I first met Benjamin Thompson, he was struggling with echolalia (unsolicited repetition of vocalizations), extreme hyperactivity, self-biting, and poor eating and sleep habits. He had been...
What Are Those Procedural Safeguards
You receive your IEP meeting notice and included are 20 pages of Procedural Safeguards. At the meeting, you are also asked if you want another copy of the Procedural Safeguards....
