Handling Your Child's Developmental Issues
You know the feeling: Your child is playing in a roomful of kids his or her own age, and you notice how much the others are talking, or playing together, or performing feats of physical dexterity, while your child sits silent, playing alone, relying on repetitive movements. Every child marches to his or her own developmental drummer, but if yours is marching far off the track, you may need to bring in special help.
Before You Worry About Your Child
Think something's not right with your little one? Here's a guide to developmental milestones, charts and checkers to help you decide whether it's really time to worry.
Think something's not right with your little one? Here's a guide to developmental milestones, charts and checkers to help you decide whether it's really time to worry.
The Dreaded "Wait and See"
So you're worried about your child, and you've brought your concerns to your pediatrician, and your pediatrician has uttered the three least satisfying words in the English language: "Wait and See." Welcome to Worry Limbo!
So you're worried about your child, and you've brought your concerns to your pediatrician, and your pediatrician has uttered the three least satisfying words in the English language: "Wait and See." Welcome to Worry Limbo!
Teach Your Child Self-Care Skills
You want your child to learn things like shoe-tying, tooth-brushing, bed-making, food-cutting, but how on earth do you teach it to kids for whom those things don't come naturally or easily? "Steps to Independence" has the tips and techniques you need.
You want your child to learn things like shoe-tying, tooth-brushing, bed-making, food-cutting, but how on earth do you teach it to kids for whom those things don't come naturally or easily? "Steps to Independence" has the tips and techniques you need.
What Is Backward Chaining?
A definition of backward chaining, a technique for teaching life skills to children with special needs.
A definition of backward chaining, a technique for teaching life skills to children with special needs.
Help Your Child Recognize Emotions
Identifying emotions -- in other people, and in themselves -- can be hard for children with special needs. Here are five fun ways to help your child learn what facial expressions mean, how to recognize emotions in others, and what those same emotions feel like to them.
Identifying emotions -- in other people, and in themselves -- can be hard for children with special needs. Here are five fun ways to help your child learn what facial expressions mean, how to recognize emotions in others, and what those same emotions feel like to them.
Special-Needs Business Profile - HandHold Adaptive
Profile of an online store selling materials to help with communication, started by the family of a child with autism.
Profile of an online store selling materials to help with communication, started by the family of a child with autism.
Sites of the Day: Developmental Disabilities
Listing of sites on developmental disabilities that have been featured as a About Parenting Special Needs Site of the Day.
Listing of sites on developmental disabilities that have been featured as a About Parenting Special Needs Site of the Day.
Use of the R-Word in "Tropic Thunder" Sparks Controversy
Ben Stiller's big R-rated summer comedy, "Tropic Thunder," drew angry responses from disability-rights advocates who felt that the frequent use of the R-word to describe a character with intellectual disabilities crossed the line into hate speech.
Ben Stiller's big R-rated summer comedy, "Tropic Thunder," drew angry responses from disability-rights advocates who felt that the frequent use of the R-word to describe a character with intellectual disabilities crossed the line into hate speech.
First Signs
A site dedicated to the early identification of developmental delays, offering information on milestones, red flags, screening tools, and early intervention.
A site dedicated to the early identification of developmental delays, offering information on milestones, red flags, screening tools, and early intervention.
Child Development
From the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, an overview of child development and developmental delays, including developmental milestones and warning signs at different ages.
From the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, an overview of child development and developmental delays, including developmental milestones and warning signs at different ages.
Developmental Milestones
From the University of Michigan Health System, links to milestones of normal child development from birth through adolescence, along with warning signs of developmental delays.
From the University of Michigan Health System, links to milestones of normal child development from birth through adolescence, along with warning signs of developmental delays.