Question of the Day: Bedtime, for real
Friday March 31, 2006
Yesterday's Question of the Day asked for your child's official bedtime. But fess up now: How often do those little heads hit the pillow at the appointed hour? Click on ... Read More
Respite questions on the forum
Friday March 31, 2006
Do you receive respite services for your child? How did you arrange for that? Did you call the agency, or did the agency call you? Those are some questions being ... Read More
Exercise may repair brain damage in kids with FASD
Friday March 31, 2006
Hopeful news for parents raising children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: New research conducted at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute indicates that physical exercise can repair brain damage caused ... Read More
Site of the Day: Friday, March 31, 2006 Kid Brain Games
Friday March 31, 2006
It's a world of educational computer games for kids, including word games, math games, search games, focus games, logic games and memory games. Your child will be challenged by puzzles ... Read More
Question of the Day: Bedtime
Thursday March 30, 2006
My kids are convinced that they have the earliest, most unjust bedtimes in the universe, even though my daughter usually falls asleep before hers, and my son often stays awake ... Read More
Getting your child to sleep
Thursday March 30, 2006
We're coming to the end of National Sleep Awareness Week 2006, March 27-April 2, although sleep is something most parents of children with special needs are aware of every day ... Read More
TLC series looks at little people
Thursday March 30, 2006
Those interested in the depiction of disabilities on television, as well as the lives of special-needs families, should catch up with "Little People, Big World" on TLC, if you haven't ... Read More
Site of the Day: Thursday, March 30, 2006 Ian's Natural Foods
Thursday March 30, 2006
If you're looking for foods that are free of allergens, preservatives, excess sugar, or trans fats to feed your sensitive child, it may be worth seeing if Ian's Natural Foods ... Read More
Question of the Day: Bad school behavior
Wednesday March 29, 2006
My son had a bad day yesterday. A bad, bad day. Bad enough that the classroom aide had to stop and tell me all about it when I picked him ... Read More
Spring into bad behavior
Wednesday March 29, 2006
The weather's warmer, the trees are budding, and my son is starting to get bad behavior reports at school. Must be spring! If you're starting to see the inevitable disciplinary ... Read More
Morgan Spurlock insults special-needs students
Wednesday March 29, 2006
Documentarian Morgan Spurlock, best-known for eating nothing but McDonald's food for 30 days for his film Super Size Me, has his foot in his mouth instead after a speech he ... Read More
Site of the Day: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 Bartleby.com
Wednesday March 29, 2006
When I was a kid, there was a room in our house, my father's office, filled with reference books. We had a set of Encyclopedia Britannica, a set of World ... Read More
Question of the Day: Blogging
Tuesday March 28, 2006
An earlier item today asked if you write your own blog. So, do you? Click on an answer below, and use your browser's back button if you want to choose ... Read More
After the autism diagnosis
Tuesday March 28, 2006
You may have read the First Five Things to Do After Your Child Is Diagnosed with Autism on this Parenting Special Needs site. Now Lisa Jo Rudy, the About.com guide ... Read More
What's your favorite blog?
Tuesday March 28, 2006
Do you have a blog? A new folder in the Respite category is devoted to Web logs of interest to parents of children with special needs, and there's room for ... Read More
Site of the Day: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 Super Diabetic Dude
Tuesday March 28, 2006
Kids with diabetes have to do some pretty superhuman stuff, like dealing with needles and avoiding candy. Celebrate your child's powers with Super Diabetic Dude, a comic book in which ... Read More
Question of the Day: Teachers at birthday parties
Monday March 27, 2006
For years, it never occurred to me to invite my son's special education teachers to his birthday parties. I mean, these people work all week with my child (no small ... Read More
Another child gets the Miracle Workers treatment
Monday March 27, 2006
The ABC reality show Miracle Workers, which recently devoted an episode to a boy with scoliosis and a girl with Tourette syndrome, is going pediatric again tonight with the story ... Read More
Where do you find support?
Monday March 27, 2006
A poster on the Parenting Special Needs Forum writes:
"I'm at my wit's end. My son has multiple symptoms of various diagnoses, but doesn't fit neatly into any category, so ... Read More
Site of the Day: Monday, March 27, 2006 Kneebouncers
Monday March 27, 2006
If your child likes to play simple online games but has trouble manipulating a mouse, the sweet and gentle fare at Kneebouncers may be just the thing. The only thing ... Read More
Question of the Day: Parents' night out
Sunday March 26, 2006
My husband and I enjoyed a rare evening out without kids last night, and I honestly can't remember the last time we did, so tied are we to staying home ... Read More
Your Sunday Quiz Break: Week ending March 25
Sunday March 26, 2006
The weekly quiz has been updated to feature questions from the last week of entries in this Parenting Special Needs blog. Can you remember the answer to this one?
Did the ... Read More
Chubby waist an indicator of diabetes risk in kids
Sunday March 26, 2006
If your child's getting big around the waist, but you haven't worried about obesity or diabetes because his or her Body Mass Index (BMI) is in the healthy range, the ... Read More
Site of the Day: Sunday, March 26, 2006 Developmental Milestones
Sunday March 26, 2006
A poster on the Parenting Special Needs Forum asked where she could find a timeline of child development, and this site is a favorite of mine for that purpose. Put ... Read More
Question of the Day: Behavior management
Saturday March 25, 2006
A post from earlier today suggested doing a little "spring cleaning" of your child's behavior plan. Are you happy with the way you're managing your child's behavior right now? Click ... Read More
Spruce up your child's behavior for spring
Saturday March 25, 2006
If the recent change of seasons has you thinking "spring cleaning," don't let all that tidying up stop with just your floors and your windows and your furniture. Ask yourself ... Read More
Some diabetic teens may overdose on insulin
Saturday March 25, 2006
Parents worry about teenagers overdosing on drugs or alcohol, or deliberately sniffing toxic substances to get high. But parents of children with diabetes have a new worry: children inducing a ... Read More
Site of the Day: Saturday, March 25, 2006 Special Kids Fund
Saturday March 25, 2006
There are plenty of charitable organizations that accept donations of used cars in return for a tax deduction, but Special Kids Fund puts a unique twist on it: in addition ... Read More
Question of the Day: Psychiatric medications
Friday March 24, 2006
With lots of talk about medications in the news these days, and much debate over the safety of drugs for ADHD and depression, it seems like a good time to ... Read More
Help with family issues
Friday March 24, 2006
If you're dealing with sibling rivalries, struggling with the effects of ADHD or autism on your family life, or just looking for a way to get through meals a little ... Read More
Petition promotes National Childhood Stroke Awareness Day
Friday March 24, 2006
If your child has had a stroke or you know of a child who has -- or you're an advocate for all children's health issues -- you may be interested ... Read More
Site of the Day: Friday, March 24, 2006 Storynory
Friday March 24, 2006
If your child likes listening to children's audiobooks, but you've balked at the price of downloads, tapes and CDs, take heart: Storynory offers iPod-ready tales that are free for the ... Read More
Question of the Day: No "black box" warning
Thursday March 23, 2006
Disregarding the recommendation of an advisory committee, the Food and Drug Administration has decided not to put a "black box" warning on Ritalin and other ADHD medications, opting instead to ... Read More
"Do's and Don'ts" for watching your child's weight
Thursday March 23, 2006
If Get a Healthy Weight for Your Child, a recent addition to the Harried Parent's Book Club, piqued your interest, you can now read an excerpt from this guide to ... Read More
Newsletter shares information on latest special-needs books
Thursday March 23, 2006
One of my favorite publishers of serious books on special needs, Brookes Publishing, has a number of newsletters available to keep you up to date on their latest titles (among ... Read More
Site of the Day: Thursday, March 23, 2006 Top 10 Creative Travel Activities
Thursday March 23, 2006
Sure, these crafts and games from About Family Crafts Guide Sherri Osborne are great for long road trips or plane rides. But there are also some excellent selections here to ... Read More
Question of the Day: Birthday parties
Wednesday March 22, 2006
My son's birthday party is this Sunday, a group of kids from his special education class descending on the local bowling alley. It's a virtue of self-contained classes that you ... Read More
Is your child delayed, or do you worry too much?
Wednesday March 22, 2006
Knowing when you're right to worry and when you're just looking for trouble is a fine line for parents of children with special needs, who may hear from self-appointed experts ... Read More
Excluding diabetic girl costs camp $50K
Wednesday March 22, 2006
Wellesley Sports Camp in Wellesley, Mass., decided not to allow a 7-year-old girl with diabetes to attend the camp because they felt that helping her with her insulin pump was ... Read More
Site of the Day: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 25 Fun Ways to Encourage Reading
Wednesday March 22, 2006
Instilling a love of reading in children is serious business, but that doesn't mean you can't have a little fun doing it. This free downloadable booklet from SchwabLearning.org offers 25 ... Read More
Question of the Day: Stages and ages
Tuesday March 21, 2006
The terrible twos. The fearsome fours. The terrifying teens. When parents talk about their children's developmental stages, it's more often to share horror stories than to celebrate the ages that ... Read More
Sensory integration gifts for scoodgy kids
Tuesday March 21, 2006
My son turns 13 today. Eeek! He's a teenager. And a teenager with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, which makes the next ten years look like pretty scary times. But for ... Read More
T-ball coach to go to trial in May
Tuesday March 21, 2006
Wondering what ever happened to Mark Downs, the T-ball coach who allegedly offered a young player $25 to bean an autistic teammate so that he'd be unable to play? If ... Read More
Site of the Day: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 Conversation Cards
Tuesday March 21, 2006
Here's a terrific resource for getting conversations going with kids whose longest answer is, "I guess." The 42 colorful cards on the Reign of Ellen site can be downloaded as ... Read More
Question of the Day: Restaurant endurance
Monday March 20, 2006
An endless lunch with extended family yesterday, in a restaurant, with an assortment of children of various ages and boredom tolerance levels, caused me to ponder this question: How long ... Read More
Adult siblings of people with disabilities sought
Monday March 20, 2006
If your special-needs child has an adult sibling, send him or her to the Web site of Vanderbilt University to participate in this study. According to the description on the ... Read More
Forum poster protests offensive site
Monday March 20, 2006
Need a good shot of outrage to get your morning going? A poster on the Parenting Special Needs Forum is rallying the troops to protest against a Web site so ... Read More
Site of the Day: Monday, March 20, 2006 Kids-in-Mind
Monday March 20, 2006
It can be hard for parents to determine what movies will be safe and appropriate for their children. Some R-rated movies are unspeakably violent, and some just have racy language ... Read More
Question of the Day: Collecting
Sunday March 19, 2006
My son collects keys. You can read about his collection on the About.com Collectibles site. Some might call it less of a "collection" than "a big mess of keys all ... Read More
Your Sunday Quiz Break: Week ending March 18
Sunday March 19, 2006
The weekly quiz has been updated to feature questions from the last week of entries in this Parenting Special Needs blog. Can you remember the answer to this one?
Which ill-considered ... Read More
10 great things about special-needs adoption
Sunday March 19, 2006
Interested in special needs adoption? You may have heard lots of scary stories, and agonized over whether you're up to such a monumental challenge. But what hardly anybody tells you ... Read More
Site of the Day: Sunday, March 19, 2006: Atmatch.com
Sunday March 19, 2006
It's like eBay for assistive technology: Atmatch.com lets you place items like walkers, wheelchairs, personal care devices, communication aides, and other necessary pieces of equipment that your child has outgrown ... Read More
Question of the Day: Holidays
Saturday March 18, 2006
Easter has stiff dresses and egg hunts. Fourth of July has scary noisy fireworks. Thanksgiving has weird food and relatives. Holidays that most families think of as joyous times of ... Read More
You are now entering ... The Party Zone
Saturday March 18, 2006
This time of year marks the beginning of party season for my family, with the birthdays of my two kids, their two cousins, and assorted aunts and uncles falling within ... Read More
Parents of terminally ill children at risk for suicide
Saturday March 18, 2006
The death of a child is the worst thing that most parents can imagine, except maybe watching that child die in pain over a long period of time in your ... Read More
Site of the Day: Saturday, March 18, 2006 The Electric Company
Saturday March 18, 2006
Do you remember watching The Electric Company when you were a kid? If so, you're a little younger than me, but not so very young anymore, bucko. The 1971-1977 PBS ... Read More
Question of the Day: Rated R
Friday March 17, 2006
Does anybody care about R ratings anymore? More and more, I'm hearing my kids' friends, boys and girls who are 11 or 12, talking about this movie and that movie ... Read More
Authors offering expertise to questioning parents
Friday March 17, 2006
Reading parenting books is a great way to get advice and perspective on your child's and your family's issues, but sometimes you close that book and think, "Hey, author, I ... Read More
Finding the information you need
Friday March 17, 2006
The list of Alphabet Soup acronyms for children's disabilities is a great place to look up those letters you've been wondering about and find out what it all means. But ... Read More
Site of the Day: Friday, March 17, 2006 Saint Patrick's Day Family Fun
Friday March 17, 2006
If your child's in elementary school, you probably have tons of St. Patrick's Day artwork cluttering your house already, all green construction paper and glue and glitter. No reason to ... Read More
Question of the Day: Reading the news
Thursday March 16, 2006
My daughter's teacher has given her an assignment to find a news story about the war in Iraq, summarize it, and present it to the class. Great, fine, current events, ... Read More
Parents vs. doctors in another end-of-life fight
Thursday March 16, 2006
What constitutes an "intolerable life"? That's the crux of yet another case pitting parents who want their baby to live against doctors who feel that the time has come to ... Read More
Cookies for the food-allergic
Thursday March 16, 2006
Gak's Snacks -- an online store offering food-allergy-safe chocolate chip cookies, brownie chip cookies, and coffee cake -- was featured last month as a Site of the Day. Now you ... Read More
Site of the Day: Thursday, March 16, 2006 Weekly Echo
Thursday March 16, 2006
If you have a teen who's interested in the news but overwhelmed by the mass of words that fills the morning paper, visit this site with your visual thinker and ... Read More
Question of the Day: Meet the president
Wednesday March 15, 2006
A post from earlier today mentioned that autistic basketball player Jason McElwain got a visit from the president in recognition of his 20-point feat. If your child did something special, ... Read More
Feel like playing book critic?
Wednesday March 15, 2006
There are now 60 titles reviewed in the Harried Parent's Book Club, and each one of them has its own topic in the book club section of the Parenting Special ... Read More
Autistic basketball player meets the president
Wednesday March 15, 2006
Jason McElwain, the autistic high school senior who made the news by scoring 20 points for his high school basketball team, has already been approached by TV and movie producers ... Read More
Site of the Day: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 Tourette Syndrome - Now What?
Wednesday March 15, 2006
This text-heavy site is an excellent resource for parents of children newly diagnosed with Tourette's, with lots of straightforward and non-alarmist information about the neurological disorder and message boards for ... Read More
Question of the Day: Bike riding
Tuesday March 14, 2006
Today's Site of the Day offers a program to help children with special needs learn to ride a two-wheel bike. It's something my son could sure use, because the "just ... Read More
Evaluate or else
Tuesday March 14, 2006
If you've ever fought hard to get a school district to do an evaluation on your child, here's a news story to make you shake your head in bewilderment: According ... Read More
How to help an overweight child
Tuesday March 14, 2006
Weight loss is the bane of many an adult's existence, and it doesn't get any easier when the person who needs to lose the weight is your child. Knowing your ... Read More
Site of the Day: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 Lose the Training Wheels
Tuesday March 14, 2006
Maybe you read the article in People magazine last August about an innovate way to teach children with special needs how to ride a bike, or maybe you've just reached ... Read More
Question of the Day: More ideals for doctors
Monday March 13, 2006
The questions of the day for Saturday and Sunday offered seven traits of an ideal doctor from a Mayo Clinic survey and asked which you think is most important, and ... Read More
Lindsay Lohan no role model for kids with asthma
Monday March 13, 2006
If you regularly look for entertainment figures with the same special needs as your child to provide a little interest and inspiration, you might have picked up on stories of ... Read More
Miracle Workers on duty tonight
Monday March 13, 2006
Miracle Workers, the new ABC reality show that involves surgeons doing life-altering work on patients with heart-tugging stories, has an episode tonight that's of particular interest to parents of children ... Read More
Site of the Day: Monday, March 13, 2006 Conjoined Rowell Twins Journal
Monday March 13, 2006
Plenty of parents keep online journals about their children's health challenges, but most start at some point after those kids have been born. For the Rowell family, the blog starts ... Read More
Question of the Day: Is your doctor ideal?
Sunday March 12, 2006
Yesterday's Question of the Day offered seven traits of an ideal doctor from a Mayo Clinic survey and asked which you think is most important. Today's question makes it a ... Read More
Your Sunday Quiz Break: Week ending March 11
Sunday March 12, 2006
The weekly quiz has been updated to feature questions from the last week of entries in this Parenting Special Needs blog. Can you remember the answer to this one?
What is ... Read More
Raise awareness for your child's special needs
Sunday March 12, 2006
Four new selections have been added to the listing of Awareness Ribbon Car Magnets that let your car show you care. You can now stick a message to the metal ... Read More
Site of the Day: Sunday, March 12, 2006 Vegan Lunch Box
Sunday March 12, 2006
My kids buy lunch at school, and it's a good thing, too, because if they had to count on me to be organized enough to pack them a lunch, there's ... Read More
Question of the Day: Ideal doctor
Saturday March 11, 2006
What makes an ideal doctor? Compassion? Empathy? Sense of humor? Low waiting-room time? The Mayo Clinic surveyed 192 patients and came up with seven key traits that consumers are looking ... Read More
Welcome the new About.com Autism guide
Saturday March 11, 2006
There's a new guide at About.com's Autism Spectrum Disorders site, and I'm loving the first line of her bio: "Lisa Jo Rudy is the mother of Tommy, age 9, diagnosed ... Read More
Blog amusement for the special-needs minded
Saturday March 11, 2006
It's Saturday morning, and I have children to get breakfast for and laundry to put away and homework to supervise and clutter to clear, and so of course I'm sitting ... Read More
Site of the Day: Saturday, March 11, 2006 Monty Python's Silly Walks Generator
Saturday March 11, 2006
When's the last time you sat down with your child and had a good giggle? This goofy site, on which the classic Monty Python "Ministry of Silly Walks" sketch becomes ... Read More
Question of the Day: Clinical trials
Friday March 10, 2006
An earlier item today told of a clinical trial for a fatal brain disorder that involves drilling a hole in a child's skull and injecting stem cells right into the ... Read More
Stem cells to be used to combat Batten disease
Friday March 10, 2006
Children with Batten disease, a fatal brain disorder that begins with seizures and loss of vision and continues with loss of motor and mental functioning, will serve as guinea pigs ... Read More
Looking back at "Million Dollar Baby"
Friday March 10, 2006
This year, the big controversy surrounding the Oscar Best Picture winner is how "Crash" managed to pull off an upset victory over "Brokeback Mountain." If you're tiring of the endless ... Read More
Site of the Day: Friday, March 10, 2006 Young Film Critic 2006
Friday March 10, 2006
There are a couple of nice twists to this contest sponsored by Film Education, a charity supported by the British film industry. One is that it lets children as young ... Read More
Question of the Day: Sleep tight
Thursday March 9, 2006
An article on the About.com Pediatrics site offers tips to instill healthy sleep habits in children with special needs. It comes at a time in which healthy sleep habits are ... Read More
Publishing company giving away autism libraries
Thursday March 9, 2006
Believe in My Child with Special Needs. The Autism Encyclopedia. Steps to Independence. Pivotal Response Treatments for Autism. If reading about these books on this Parenting Special Needs site has ... Read More
New additions to Book Club Gallery
Thursday March 9, 2006
Two new book covers have been added to the Harried Parent's Book Club Gallery for your cyber-shelf-browsing pleasure. Stop by and get a closer look at the colorful fronts of ... Read More
Site of the Day: Thursday, March 9, 2006 Girls Go Tech
Thursday March 9, 2006
Have a daughter who's into codes, patterns, Web site design -- or one you'd like to push in that direction? The Girl Scouts' Girls Go Tech site has games, tutorials, ... Read More
Question of the Day: RAD worries
Wednesday March 8, 2006
A poster on the Parenting Special Needs forum wonders if her child has Reactive Attachment Disorder due to medical treatments in infancy. Many adoptive parents wonder if RAD due to ... Read More
RAD expertise sought in forums
Wednesday March 8, 2006
Reactive Attachment Disorder is a hot topic right now on the Parenting Special Needs message boards. One poster, struggling with professional and medical issues in addition to the manipulations of ... Read More
Where to find footage of autistic basketball player
Wednesday March 8, 2006
If you followed a link from a blog entry from February 26 about footage of autistic basketball player Jason McElwain scoring 20 points for his team, you may have noticed ... Read More
Site of the Day: Wednesday, March 8, 2006 Cyberchase: Tangrams
Wednesday March 8, 2006
Tangrams are big deal in math classes these days -- the game of recreating designs with miscellaneous smaller shapes is apparently intended to lure kids unsuspectingly into an understanding of ... Read More
Question of the Day: Special sports teams
Tuesday March 7, 2006
I was happy to see another inspirational article about a young person with severe challenges succeeding in sports, this time a wrestler who had his legs amputated at age 4 ... Read More
Journal focuses on pediatric end-of-life care
Tuesday March 7, 2006
The journal Pediatrics takes on the hard-to-take topic of end-of-life care for children in its March issue, with a study indicating that palliative care is sorely lacking. Researchers sent questionnaires ... Read More
Sites of the Day indexed every which way
Tuesday March 7, 2006
If you clicked on the "More Sites of the Day" link on today's selection below, you may have noticed that the Site of the Day index has had a little ... Read More
Site of the Day: Tuesday, March 7, 2006 Hank Zipzer
Tuesday March 7, 2006
Before he was The Fonz and the arbiter of all things cool on the '70s TV series Happy Days, Henry Winkler was an underachieving, learning challenged kid very much like ... Read More
Question of the Day: Child obesity
Monday March 6, 2006
Doctors and authors have been sounding the alarm on child obesity for quite a while now, but the rhetoric just went up a few decibels with a report in the ... Read More
Study draws new conclusions on TV watching
Monday March 6, 2006
Does too much TV watching cause ADHD, or does ADHD cause too much TV watching? If you've been feeling guilty about causing your child's hyperactivity by dumping him in front ... Read More
Excerpt from Asperger's book looks at eye contact
Monday March 6, 2006
Refusal to make eye contact is always a big red flag that something's going wrong in a child's development, and parents, doctors, teachers, and therapists tend to attack it with ... Read More
Site of the Day: Monday, March 6, 2006 Children's Growth Chart Percentiles Calculator
Monday March 6, 2006
One of the highlights (or lowlights) of annual pediatrician's visits is the plotting out of your child's height and weight on those swooping Growth Charts, finding out if the percentile ... Read More
Question of the Day: Ear infection vaccine
Sunday March 5, 2006
According to a study in the British medical journal Lancet, a vaccine called Streptorix is being developed to banish that scourge of early childhood, the ear infection. It's been tested ... Read More
Your Sunday Quiz Break: Week ending March 4
Sunday March 5, 2006
The weekly quiz has been updated to feature questions from the last week of entries in this Parenting Special Needs blog. Can you remember the answer to this one?
Which actor ... Read More
Peanut-butter kiss wasn't fatal after all
Sunday March 5, 2006
It sure made a good story. But according to a coroner, a kiss from a boyfriend who had eaten peanut butter did not in fact kill 15-year-old Christina Desforges. The ... Read More
Site of the Day: Sunday, March 5, 2006 Memorable Oscar Dresses
Sunday March 5, 2006
Just one more silly Oscar site, then we'll get back to the serious and the useful. Oscar Night used to be a big deal for me back in the days ... Read More
Question of the Day: Spring fever
Saturday March 4, 2006
Yesterday we obsessed about summer, but before we can really worry about how our kids will fare at camp, we have to worry about how we're going to get them ... Read More
Springtime and tax time and Easter, oh my
Saturday March 4, 2006
March sure came in like a lion in my part of the country, with a snowstorm that gave my kids an early dismissal from school. But the going out like ... Read More
More matching fun
Saturday March 4, 2006
The Love Notes Memory Game is a great way to while away a Saturday because it matches the fun of Concentration-style play with inspirational sayings from our Love Notes for ... Read More
Site of the Day: Saturday, March 4, 2006 Oscar Party Bingo
Saturday March 4, 2006
Whether you're watching the big ceremony tomorrow night with friends or all alone in front of the TV, funny Bingo cards from M&M's will make things more entertaining. Whenever an ... Read More
Question of the Day: Summer plans
Friday March 3, 2006
Summer is just half a school-year away: Do you know what your kids will be up to? I'm one for two: I know my daughter will be participating in a ... Read More
Are you ready for the summer?
Friday March 3, 2006
It's March, the weather's blustery, and so of course now is the time to be thinking about ... summer camp? Some programs are already sending out their brochures and applications, ... Read More
Test your memory of Oscars and disabilities
Friday March 3, 2006
The Oscars are coming up on Sunday night, and although the documentary Murderball is representing for people with disabilities, the lists of acting nominees is notable for a lack of ... Read More
Site of the Day: Friday, March 3, 2006 Honest Baby T-Shirts
Friday March 3, 2006
As parents of children with special needs, we worry about missed milestones, about slow growth, about our children's refusal to show even those skills they have mastered to skeptical specialists. ... Read More
Question of the Day: Should this movie be made?
Thursday March 2, 2006
An earlier item today discussed the likelihood that the story of Jason McElwain, an autistic 17-year-old who manages his school's basketball team and played on it for an outstanding four ... Read More
If your child doesn't want to Read Across America
Thursday March 2, 2006
It's Read Across America Day today, and that means kids will be doing Cat in the Hat crafts, hearing local politicians and the occasional celebrity read stories, and having the ... Read More
Autistic basketball player coming to a theater near you
Thursday March 2, 2006
This sure didn't take long: The family of Jason McElwain, the autistic 17-year-old who scored a whopping 20 points in four minutes on the court for his high school's basketball ... Read More
Site of the Day: Thursday, March 2, 2006 How to Comprehend a Difficult Book or Chapter
Thursday March 2, 2006
This how-to from Grace Fleming, the About.com guide to Homework/Study Tips, is designed to help students deal with really hard reading material -- but for students with special needs, "hard" ... Read More
Question of the Day: College
Wednesday March 1, 2006
About.com Parenting of Adolescents Guide Denise Witmer has a poll on her site that got me thinking. She's asking parents whether they expect to pick up the expenses of sending ... Read More
Patrick Dempsey to discuss dyslexia tonight
Wednesday March 1, 2006
Dr. McDreamy's dyslexic? That's the revelation being advertised for tonight's Barbara Walters interview with Patrick Dempsey, the actor who portrays surgeon Derek Shepherd on ABC's Grey's Anatomy. According to news ... Read More
Send a Love Note to a parent you're proud of
Wednesday March 1, 2006
Want to give a friend, family member, Email-list buddy, or support group acquaintance a nice little pick-me-up? Send them a Love Note. Each item in our Love Notes for Special ... Read More
Site of the Day: Wednesday, March 1, 2006 Bridges4Kids State Resources
Wednesday March 1, 2006
The Bridges4Kids site has too much good stuff to be just one Site of the Day, so I'm featuring this extremely useful section that allows you to click on your ... Read More