Plays, Virtual Field Trips, and More Fun Things to Do
Saturday January 31, 2009
A Saturday "Site of the Day" special: Most days, a single Site of the Day is plenty to keep you occupied. But on Saturday morning, with kids underfoot and a ... Read More
Friday Free-for-All: Sound Off on Wrecked Lives, Lice, and More
Friday January 30, 2009
The opportunities for spouting off on this site have grown over the years from the forum to blog comments to article add-ons. I'm going to take Fridays to highlight a ... Read More
Inclusion Can't Be Just About Cost-Cutting
Thursday January 29, 2009
Why People Stare at Your Child
Thursday January 29, 2009
What's your first thought when you see somebody staring at your kid?
They're being rude about your child's disabilities?
They think you're a crummy parent?
They need your fist to teach their eyes ... Read More
Sickness Standards Seem to Be Slipping
Wednesday January 28, 2009
There's a snow day in our schools today, and for once I'm glad of it. My son got sent home yesterday morning -- I won't say sent home sick, because ... Read More
Not the Kind of Speech You'd Want to Teach
Wednesday January 28, 2009
My son has a habit of picking up phrases from TV shows and repeating them, often in seemingly appropriate contexts. The way I know that it's more echolalia than expression ... Read More
Special-Needs Family Puts Everything It Owns on eBay
Tuesday January 27, 2009
As I mentioned in yesterday's Site of the Day, a Georgia family of five, including a boy with autism and a girl with Still's Disease, has put everything it owns ... Read More
Amazing Race Gets Its First-Ever Deaf Contestant ... and His Mom
Tuesday January 27, 2009
The latest cast for CBS's The Amazing Race was just announced, and among the contestants is one of our own -- the parent of a child with special needs. According ... Read More
Would Your Friend Say Your Child Is Better Off Dead?
Monday January 26, 2009
If you had a choice, would you prefer that your child with special needs had never been born? How about if you asked a friend, somebody peering in on your ... Read More
My Son, the Shopper
Monday January 26, 2009
A couple of weeks ago, my son went into a supermarket by himself to pick up a can of soup his dad needed for a recipe. Last week, his list ... Read More
Weekly Round-Up: Week of January 19
Sunday January 25, 2009
Here's your weekend round-up of all the articles, blog posts, and site updates you may have missed from the past week in About Parenting Special Needs.
New Articles
Picking a Dentist ... Read More
Time Capsules, Smart Videos, and More Fun Things to Do
Saturday January 24, 2009
A Saturday "Site of the Day" special: Most days, a single Site of the Day is plenty to keep you occupied. But on Saturday morning, with kids underfoot and a ... Read More
Friday Free-for-All: Sound Off on IEPs, Homeschooling, ADHD
Friday January 23, 2009
The opportunities for spouting off on this site have grown over the years from the forum to blog comments to article add-ons. I'm going to take Fridays to highlight a ... Read More
Contest Lets Kids Create a Special-Needs Friend for Arthur
Thursday January 22, 2009
The PBS TV show Arthur has always been a favorite in our house, one of the rare kiddie shows I can bear to watch myself. I've particularly appreciated the way ... Read More
Should Girl Scouts Stop Selling Cookies?
Wednesday January 21, 2009
It's that time of year again, when the world's in a whirl over Thin Mints, Shortbreads, Peanut-Butter Sandwiches. Girl Scout Cookies are back on sale, and at an office or ... Read More
Five Changes You Can Make Right Now
Tuesday January 20, 2009
Change is in the air today, as the United States inaugurates a new president who many hope will make a meaningful change in their lives. How much Barack Obama will ... Read More
Some Days You're a Hero, Some Days a Monster Eats You for Lunch
Monday January 19, 2009
I live in the general vicinity of New York City, and the papers and newscasts hereabouts have been full of images of the US Airways flight that made an unexpected ... Read More
Weekly Round-Up: Week of January 12
Sunday January 18, 2009
Here's your weekend round-up of all the articles, blog posts, and site updates you may have missed from the past week in About Parenting Special Needs.
New Articles
Special-Education Transitions - ... Read More
Sound Game, KaleidoDrawing, and More Fun Things to Do
Saturday January 17, 2009
A Saturday "Site of the Day" special: Most days, a single Site of the Day is plenty to keep you occupied. But on Saturday morning, with kids underfoot and a ... Read More
Friday Free-for-All: Sound Off on ERs, Equipment, Everything on Your Mind
Friday January 16, 2009
The opportunities for spouting off on this site have grown over the years from the forum to blog comments to article add-ons. I'm going to take Fridays to highlight a ... Read More
Abracadabra! No More Special Needs!
Thursday January 15, 2009
There have been times, in my children's schooling, where I've felt educators were operating under the "Magic Wand Theory" -- that is, a given placement or plan will work because ... Read More
Another Chance to Vote for a Special-Needs Cause
Wednesday January 14, 2009
Remember that whole to-do last year about the American Express Member's Project, in which many parents of children with special needs fervently voted to fund their causes, only to find ... Read More
Some "Wife Swaps" I'd Like to See
Tuesday January 13, 2009
Speaking of television shows, anybody out there watching the ABC show Wife Swap? Anybody who'll admit to it? My daughter, for some reason, finds it fascinating -- maybe because it ... Read More
Special-Needs Shows I Missed -- Did You?
Monday January 12, 2009
Several special-needs TV offerings came to my attention over the weekend, two reality, one recycled. Given that my TV viewing lately is mostly limited to overhearing the Disney Channel movies ... Read More
Weekly Round-Up: Week of January 5
Sunday January 11, 2009
Here's your weekend round-up of all the articles, blog posts, and site updates you may have missed from the past week in About Parenting Special Needs.
New Articles
What Is Kawasaki ... Read More
Memory Game, Sand Sculptures, and More Fun Things to Do
Saturday January 10, 2009
A Saturday "Site of the Day" special: Most days, a single Site of the Day is plenty to keep you occupied. But on Saturday morning, with kids underfoot and a ... Read More
Friday Free-for-All: Sound Off on Resolutions, MRIs, Diagnosis Advice
Friday January 9, 2009
The opportunities for spouting off on this site have grown over the years from the forum to blog comments to article add-ons. I'm going to take Fridays to highlight a ... Read More
By "Emergency," They Mean, "Requiring Attention Within, Like, Four or Five Hours"
Thursday January 8, 2009
Reading a news article this morning about kids having to leave the ER before being seen made me think of one of several ER visits from my son's younger years. ... Read More
What People Think They Know About Jett Travolta
Wednesday January 7, 2009
I've been reading comments lately on other blogs about the death of John Travolta's son, Jett (pictured with his dad at right), and Jett's alleged autism. The speculation that Jett ... Read More
High School Is Always High School
Tuesday January 6, 2009
A couple of weeks ago, my high-school-freshman son came home from school with some surprising news: A girl in his class was pregnant. Not so surprising, I guess, in this ... Read More
Bright Ideas for 2009
Monday January 5, 2009
Hey, welcome back to all of you who wandered off from this blog over the holidays, whether because you were away from your work computer or you had actual life ... Read More
Weekly Round-Up: Week of December 29
Sunday January 4, 2009
Here's your weekend round-up of all the articles, blog posts, and site updates you may have missed from the past week in About Parenting Special Needs.
New Articles
2008 in Special-Needs ... Read More
Sneeze Games, Clothes Guards, and More Fun Things to Do
Saturday January 3, 2009
A Saturday "Site of the Day" special: Most days, a single Site of the Day is plenty to keep you occupied. But on Saturday morning, with kids underfoot and a ... Read More
Friday Free-for-All: Sound Off on TV, Vaccinations, Vicious Relatives
Friday January 2, 2009
The opportunities for spouting off on this site have grown over the years from the forum to blog comments to article add-ons. I'm going to take Fridays to highlight a ... Read More
I Resolve to Make Resolutions for Those Who Especially Need Them
Thursday January 1, 2009
It's 2009. Whopee. The old year's behind, the new year's ahead, and we've got our work cut out for us. Chances are, you already know what you need to do. ... Read More