Super Dadvocate: Hogan Hilling Making a Difference!
Our Super Dadvocate Hogan Hilling! An Awakening Moment With My Disabled Child, Wesley When people discover that one of my three boys, Wesley, is a child with a disability, the...
Special Needs
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...
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...
Healthy Eating Options for Fueling Your Child
Healthy Eating Options “You’ve likely heard the old adage before: ‘You are what you eat!’ When I ask my students about their breakfast, I often hear responses like ‘A Pop...
Summer Internet Surfing Keeping Kids Safe Online
The internet makes it possible to travel anywhere in the world with a click of a mouse. One minute your child can be visiting an African Safari, the next a...
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...
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...
