With photos of the devastation in New Orleans on the cover of every paper and TV coverage showing constant footage of survivors huddled on rooftops and looters running wild, it ... Read More

Looking for worksheets to print out for your child? Forum member Donna1977 has generously posted a long list of worksheet sites, with the promise of more to come. My personal ... Read More

Two more entries have been added to our list of materials for Preparing the School for Your Child with Special Needs: one for Asperger Syndrome and one for Congenital Heart ... Read More

Much energy has been expended in pondering the causes of autism, pursuing a cure, developing treatments, devising therapies, deciphering behaviors, mostly with the aim of making people with autism more ... Read More

Sweet! The Napoleon Dynamite pens that earned a spot in last Saturday's Hall of Shame are on their way off Target shelves, according to an item posted today by Jay ... Read More

A 5-year-old boy with autism has died while undergoing chelation treatments at a Pennsylvania doctor's office. It's unknown at this time whether the treatment, which seeks to remove toxic metals ... Read More

School can be a minefield for kids with auditory processing problems, full of missed cues, confusing messages, and torrents of words that can't possibly be processed promptly. Is all that ... Read More

Our sheets on "Preparing the School for Your Child with Special Needs" continue today with one for parents of children with cancer. Also of interest to those families will be ... Read More

"I love someone with autism." "Autism is part of our world." "Autism is amazing!" Those are the upbeat sentiments -- complete with artwork by an 11-year-old with autism and an ... Read More

When you send your child with ADHD off to school, what's the most important thing for the teacher to know? That he really can't stop wiggling? That she's gotta have ... Read More

With the start of school and the inevitable cluing in of teachers dead ahead, it's time to get with the gathering of materials to explain our children to the people ... Read More

A new "Weekly Quiz" was posted this morning, testing your knowledge of items that have appeared in this blog over the past week. Joining it on today's list of Five ... Read More

If you take your child to see "March of the Penguins," the heartwarming nature documentary that's been a surprise hit of the summer, make sure he or she doesn't laugh ... Read More

Advance word is starting to circulate about movies that will be released in the fall and winter, and at least three upcoming films have special-needs-related themes. In "Killer Diller," due ... Read More

Some of my kids' favorite books on important issues have been by Mister Rogers. His photo-filled books on toilet training and adoption helped us tackle those subjects when we had ... Read More

Hoping to get organized for back-to-school? Informed? Inspired? Forewarned? The Parenting Special Needs site is full of good articles about handling everything from IEPs to LDs, homework to head lice. ... Read More

Does your child keep a collection? My son has a truly impressive array of small toy cars, which he has been fascinated with since he was old enough to line ... Read More

When it comes to doing homework, my kids represent both sides of the spectrum. One is willing to work hard but just doesn't get it, and the other gets it ... Read More

Our kids are special, their needs are special, their educations are special, but what about us, the parents? Aren't we special, too? Moms, at least, can get a T-shirt to ... Read More

Maybe one of the nice things about having children with developmental delays is that you get to watch kiddie TV for so many more years. My kids, at age 12 ... Read More

Whether you've got a child who's interested in science but needs safe hands-on projects; a child who's into art but has trouble with traditional materials; or a child who's a ... Read More

It's back-to-school shopping time, with new clothes and new notebooks and new backpacks filling up the back of the minivan. But what about those other school tools your child's gotta ... Read More

If you're the kind of parent who likes to torture kids over the summer with math games and flashcards and worksheets, you'll love A+ Math. It's not the most high-tech ... Read More

Any movie that my extra-wiggly son can sit through so quietly that I almost forgot he's there is a movie I can recommend. But "Sky High," the new Disney film ... Read More

Obituary pages over the weekend carried the sad end to the life of Hunter Kelly, the eight-year-old son of Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly and his wife, Jill. Or ... Read More

Have you tried the Parenting Special Needs Weekly Quiz yet? Success is simple: Just read over the past week's worth of blog entries on this page, starting with the one ... Read More

Winston Churchill. Hans Christian Anderson. Tom Cruise. What do they have in common? You may be surprised to find out. Take the "Celebrity Quiz" on the LDOnline site and find ... Read More

A Grammy jacket, signed scripts, and tickets to Saturday Night Live are among the goodies you can pick up while donating to autism research at the Autism Speaks eBay Auction ... Read More

You've seen websites like this one before, all full of seriousness and gobbledygook about some neurological disorder or other, answering questions like "How Common Is It?" and "Are There Any ... Read More

Like a special-needs episode of "Kids Say the Darnedest Things," the "Humorous Tidbits" section of the Children with Diabetes site gives parents a chance to post the funny remarks their ... Read More

It's not hard to find information about the "bad" side of ADHD. There's an endless supply of news reports and Web sites and books full of warnings about behavior problems ... Read More

Remember Mad Libs? You're asked to provide random words for different parts of speech -- a noun, a verb, a preposition, an adverb, an adjective or two -- and then ... Read More