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...
Special Needs
Ready, Set, Paint! Art Therapy at Home
Art therapy is one of those things that applies to all people at all ages and stages. It’s why we all tuned in to watch Bob Ross paint “happy little...
Seven Ways to Celebrate Being a Special Needs Parent
Seven Ways to Celebrate Being a Special Needs Parent As I browse the Mother’s and Father’s Day cards at my favorite gift store, I find myself laughing, smiling and feeling...
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...
2016 Cover Winner: Kole Thomas Garrett
Kole Thomas Garrett Our handsome young man on the cover comes to us from Ft. Worth, Tx. Kole Thomas Garrett, 5, loves to play with his sisters, Karis Charles and...
2018 Cover Winner: Allison & Cassidy
Allison & Cassidy Our cover photo is of siblings, Allison and Cassidy Weber (19/17 respectively). Cassidy has a brain migration defect, Microcephaly, Epilepsy, Scoliosis, Cerebral Palsy, is non-verbal, in a...
Let’s Help More Families: GoTo Cart
GoTo Cart Shop Our goal: 1 in #EverySupermarket Transforming shopping trips for special needs families The Firefly GoTo Shop is an adapted shopping cart suitable for kids with special needs...
Vision Problems Parents Should Be on the Lookout For…
Vision Problems There are behaviors parents often attribute to other causes, such as being lazy or having ADD or Autism, but some of these behaviors may actually be signs of...
Health and Wellness
Health and Wellness A Red Panda. A Twenty foot tall ball of yarn. Both are specific, if uncommon visuals. Okay now… “Healthy living.” Whatcha got? A cornucopia filled with fruits...
Improving Behavior in Special Needs Children with Visual Strategies
Using Visual Strategies To Improve Behavior Children with special needs sometimes have difficulty remembering what is expected of them or deciphering cues from their social and physical environment. Frustration and...
