Special Needs Children and Mealtime
Mealtime can be a source of togetherness or stressedness for families of children with special needs. Here are some tips for making cooking and eating with your child a more pleasant experience for all.
Tips for Dining Out With a Child With Special Needs
Do you dare take a behavior-challenged child to a restaurant? Yes! With the right attitude and a few simple tricks, you can survive and even enjoy a mealtime outing.
Do you dare take a behavior-challenged child to a restaurant? Yes! With the right attitude and a few simple tricks, you can survive and even enjoy a mealtime outing.
Ways to Help Your Child Eat Neat
Whether due to low muscle tone, poor motor control, or impulsiveness, some children with special needs may have trouble getting the food into their mouths and not all over everything else. Here are 10 ways to help your child be a neater eater.
Whether due to low muscle tone, poor motor control, or impulsiveness, some children with special needs may have trouble getting the food into their mouths and not all over everything else. Here are 10 ways to help your child be a neater eater.
Breastfeeding a Child with Special Needs
Although breastfeeding a child with special needs may present extra challenges, babies with disabilities may be particularly in need of its benefits.
Although breastfeeding a child with special needs may present extra challenges, babies with disabilities may be particularly in need of its benefits.
Help for Kids Who Struggle with Face-Washing
Some children with sensory integration problems can't feel when there's food stuck to their face, and come back from clean-up with the same sticky cheeks, nose and chin. Here's a quick tip for helping them know just where to wash.
Some children with sensory integration problems can't feel when there's food stuck to their face, and come back from clean-up with the same sticky cheeks, nose and chin. Here's a quick tip for helping them know just where to wash.
Teach Your Child to Cook
Kids love to cook, but some children's cookbooks can be too wordy and complex for young chefs with special needs. Use "A Man, A Can, A Plan," with its simple instructions, photographic ingredient lists, and kid-friendly dishes, to teach your child to love putting meals together.
Kids love to cook, but some children's cookbooks can be too wordy and complex for young chefs with special needs. Use "A Man, A Can, A Plan," with its simple instructions, photographic ingredient lists, and kid-friendly dishes, to teach your child to love putting meals together.
Nourishing Connections
Twenty tips for making mealtime more special for people with special needs, excerpted from "Breaking Bread, Nourishing Connections."
Twenty tips for making mealtime more special for people with special needs, excerpted from "Breaking Bread, Nourishing Connections."
Cookies for the Food Allergic
Make Oatmeal Raisin Cookies from a recipe in "The Gak’s Snacks Allergy Cookbook: Baked Treats for All Occasions."
Make Oatmeal Raisin Cookies from a recipe in "The Gak’s Snacks Allergy Cookbook: Baked Treats for All Occasions."
Special-Needs Children and Special Occasions
Advice on how to make it through family get-togethers and other big events with children with special needs.
Advice on how to make it through family get-togethers and other big events with children with special needs.
Book Review: Breaking Bread, Nourishing Connections
With recipes, cooking tips, and lots of photos of people dining happily together, this book describes how to make mealtime more pleasant and inclusive for people with disabilities.
With recipes, cooking tips, and lots of photos of people dining happily together, this book describes how to make mealtime more pleasant and inclusive for people with disabilities.
Book Review: A Man, A Can, A Plan
Putting together a meal that your child can help with, or that your child will agree to eat, can be tricky for the families of children with special needs. This cookbook, while written for bachelors and single dads, is a great addition to the special-needs family kitchen, with easy, clever recipes that turn kid favorites into nutritious meals.
Putting together a meal that your child can help with, or that your child will agree to eat, can be tricky for the families of children with special needs. This cookbook, while written for bachelors and single dads, is a great addition to the special-needs family kitchen, with easy, clever recipes that turn kid favorites into nutritious meals.
Book Review: Steps to Independence
Teach your child self-care, home-care and information skills with this book's patient, step-by-step instructions and helpful techniques.
Teach your child self-care, home-care and information skills with this book's patient, step-by-step instructions and helpful techniques.