Looking for somewhere good to surf? Stop by this Site of the Day listing for a daily destination of interest to parents of children with special needs. Listed here are the sites or pages featured each day in February 2010. For more sites, visit the index.
1. February 2010 Calendar
Image and text by Terri Mauro
What It Is: A February calendar page with one of my Love Notes for Special Parents, ready to print and post on a wall near you.
2. NLD on the Web
If you've been having trouble finding this great resource on Nonverbal Learning Disabilities lately, it's been offline for an update. It's back up now, though, and ready to help.
3. Knowledge Safari
What It Is: "Knowledge Safari unites individuals and families living with special needs by providing a place where people throughout the world gain knowledge and share experiences with others in similar circumstances. Together we can connect, discover, share and inspire so that the journey is easier for us all to navigate."
4. Give Kids a Smile!
"Each year on the first Friday in February, thousands of the nation's dentists and their dental team members provide free oral health care services to children from low-income families across the country." From the site, you can find a dental organization in your area to contact for more information.
5. Autism Speaks Baker Summer Camp Program
"Autism Speaks Baker Summer Camp Program will select eligible Camps to identify qualified campers in the United States and will offer up to $5000 in scholarship funds for financially disadvantaged campers with Autism Spectrum Disorders to attend summer camp." From the site, camps can download a form to submit -- if there's a camp you'd like your child to attend, urge them to participate.
6. Fun Things to Do
What It Is: Your super-sized listing of Five Fun Things to Do Today -- including a family activity, a site for the kids, a shopping site, a site offering humor or inspiration about parenting children with special needs, and a site that's just silly or fun.
7. Weekly Round-Up
What It Is: 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.
8. Sensory Processing for Parents and Professionals
An occupational therapist started this site "to add a positive contribution to daily life for children with sensory processing disorder by giving advice, and describing games and activities. I hope that the advice, activities and games will contribute to parents having more fun together with their child and that they enjoy life more together."
9. Navigating the Storm
There is a new video in the series on the Living With LGS site, this one dealing with sleep and seizures. "Proper sleep hygiene includes the entire experience of getting ready, going and staying asleep. Sleep disruption can impact quality of life and seizure control in children with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. In this video, Dr. Glauser identifies common types of sleep disorders and helps parents address the causes."
10. New Fun Things to Do Indexes
If you like the Saturday Fun Things to Do Round-Ups, check out these indexes of all the fun things I've featured. The link above takes you to the listing of family activities, and you can follow links from there to indexes of kid sites, shopping sites, humor sites, inspirational sites, and just for fun sites.
