7 Apps for Students with Special Needs Back to School Success!
7 Apps for Back to School Success! Work smarter, not harder this school year. For students with special needs, transitioning back into a school routine can be challenging. Whether it...
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Calm Your Nerves – Know What To Expect At An IEP Meeting
Know What To Expect At An IEP Meeting IEP MEETING … Just those two words can send a parent into a state of fear, anxiousness and worry, including the most...
Why Chores Are Good for Your Kids and How to Get Them to Do Them to Do It
One question most parents ask themselves is whether or not they should require their kids to do chores and, if yes, what is the best way to go about it?...
Digital Safety: An Ongoing Conversation
Digital Safety We are parents just like you, who are concerned with the content that our children consume digitally. We, too, struggle with how best to allow our kids to...
Facing the Challenges of Balancing Work and a Special Needs Child
Balancing Work and a Special Needs Child: Speaking to Your Employer about Your Child’s Needs Finding a job is not always easy, and it can be that much harder for...
Healthy Eating Options for Fueling Your Child
Healthy Eating Options You’ve heard the old adage before: “You are what you eat!” Well, when I’ve asked my students what they had for breakfast, I often hear a short...
Eligibility How Is It Determined?
Eligibility As you sit at the IEP Table, the Team is discussing your child and the school says that your child needs to be evaluated and then the Team will...
A Review…What Is Special Education
From Early Intervention to Special Education Services As I sat at our first IEP meeting transitioning from Early Intervention to Part B for our daughter who is legally blind,...
Hot New and Updated Apps for 2018!
New and Updated Apps for the New Year We get excited around here by innovative and creative technologies that help children with disabilities develop, become more independent and succeed in...
Where Do I Go for Evaluations
Evaluations Your child has just been given a medical diagnosis of a disability…OR… you suspect your child has a disability but are not sure. Now what? Many of us parents...