Baby
What to Say & Do if Your Friend’s Baby Has Special Needs
What are the best ways to help a friend with a special needs child? Author and mom Jennifer Graf Groneberg shares her tips on what to say and do.
Parenting
Birthday Parties for the Sensory-Sensitive Child
Is it possible to throw a birthday party for a kid who hates birthday parties with every fiber of his vestibular system?
Baby
Food & the Sensory-Sensitive Child
One mom’s fight to take the garbage out…of her kids’ mouths.
Products & Services
Rethink Autism: revolutionary web resource
Finally an online tool that provides parents and professionals affordable and immediate access to the resources they need to begin working with child on the autism spectrum.
Toddler
Dealing with Developmental-Delay Deniers
“My daughter is speech delayed. So why is my family arguing with me about it?”
Toddler
What to Expect in Speech Therapy
How to get the most out of early intervention services.
Toddler
What to Expect at Occupational Therapy
When should you expect progress? When should you demand a change?
Big Kid
After the Diagnosis
My son was 7 when he was diagnosed with ADHD, ODD, OCD. As a parent who had been opposed to medication this was a humbling, eye-opening experience.
Toddler
Developmental Zig-Zags
Developmental delays in preschoolers rarely set you down a straight path. What to do when you’re handed more forks in the road than you can handle.
Toddler
When It’s Not Your Child
What do you do when you suspect development delays…in someone else’s kid?
Family Fun
Moms of Special Olympics Athletes are Rockstars
Over the course of the next several weeks I will be introducing you to Carol McMullen, she is the mom of Special Olympics athlete Christopher McMullen who is a member of Team USA and competing in the Athens World Games as a swimmer. Carol is such a superstar that I can’t wait to share hers and Christopher’s stories with you.
Big Kid
A Future of Unified Sports Teams: I’m Excited!
I had never heard about unified sports teams. I think they will help teach kids about others and themselves.
Big Kid
Inclusive Special Education Benefits Everyone
An interview with my son who was involved in a program in which general education students are brought into a special education setting to work as role models, and advocates for the students with disabilities.
Young Child
The Diagnosis Battlefield
My child has just been diagnosed with a condition my in-laws don’t even believe exists. Now what?
Family Fun
We Can All Learn from Special Olympics Athletes & their Families
I’ve just returned from the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens (as a guest of longtime sponsor P&G) and as expected it was a learning experience. We can all learn from Special Olympics athletes and their families.
Toddler
Special Needs, The Second Time Around
How to prepare yourself for another ride on the Early Intervention roller coaster.
Young Child
D is for Disorder
I know that many kids these days struggle from the alphabet soup of disorders. Why aren’t we talking about it more openly?
Young Child
Talking to Your Child About Their Special Needs
At what point — when special education and speech therapy and other services are the norm in your child’s life — do you explain to them that they’re different? And how?
Young Child
When the School Can’t (or Won’t) Help Your Child
I’m worried something isn’t quite “right” with my daughter, but her school keeps finding excuses for not evaluating our concerns. Where do I turn for help?
Baby
When You’re Waiting For the Test Results
My prenatal testing has revealed a very high likelihood that my baby has Down Syndrome, but I won’t find out for sure for a couple more weeks. How do I keep from driving myself crazy in the meantime?