Behavior Challenges in Special Situations

Advice on how to make it through family get-togethers and other big events with children with special needs.

Making it through a church service with a child with special needs can be a spiritually trying experience, but setting appropriate expecations and incentives can give you a prayer of success.

Probably the best advice would be to never take your child to the mall at all. Can't avoid it? These five tips will make your trip shorter, smoother, and less stressful.

Most kids don't like going to the dentist, but children with special needs may react with particular terror and misbehavior. Tooth care is important, so try these tactics for making a dentist visit less tortuous for your child -- and for you, too.

Traveling with kids is hard. Traveling with kids with special needs, for whom disruptions of routine and transitions and large blocks of unstructured time can be a considerable trial, can be so very much harder. Here are five steps to take to make your flight at least a little bit smoother.

Come fall, children with special needs may react to changes in time, light, and weather with out-of-control behavior. Here are some reasons why, and what parents can do to bring a little order to the chaos.