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Upcoming Training: Financial Planning for Families of those with Special Needs
Providing proper care for loved ones with special needs isn’t easy. More than 12% of the US population is identified as living with a disability. Their needs are varied and their care depends on a variety of services to meet those unique needs. To help with financial planning to support these...
May 10th, 2012 | Parents | Read More
Top Five Special Needs Planning Mistakes
We welcome Attorney Brad Wiewel as our Guest author. Brad Wiewel is Board Certified in Estate Planning & Probate Law
There are many misconceptions in this area that result in costly mistakes in planning for these special needs beneficiaries. It is therefore incumbent upon parents of children...
May 2nd, 2012 | Parents | Read More
Autism & Asperger Toolkits for Families
After an initial diagnosis of Autism or Asperger’s Syndrome, the parents and grandparents of that child are in shock. The shock is the first stage of the grief process and working through each step will be difficult. Most of the time parents do not know where to turn, who to trust or what to...
April 25th, 2012 | Parents | Read More
A Piece of the Puzzle
On December 19th of 2011, my husband and I launched a website titled: www.apieceofthepuzzle.net. A Piece of the Puzzle.net is a social community website that is completely dedicated to people with special needs and disabilities. Inside the website, we have a social wall, a chat area and a game...
April 11th, 2012 | Parents | Read More
Guest Post: Revisiting a Child’s Lifestyle
Revisiting a child’s lifestyle
A child’s lifestyle affects his alertness, behaviour and his ability to learn. Things such as what he eats, his daily activities and his time schedule are all areas which influence the development of any child. In this respect, it’s important to learn how to achieve...
March 18th, 2012 | Parents | Read More
Guest Post: How To Help Your Child With Homework
How To Help Your Child With Homework
By Melissa Katz, M.S.
Does your child struggle with homework? Does she procrastinate and take a long time to complete assignments?
Many students, especially those with learning disabilities, have difficulty planning for, benefiting from, and completing homework...
March 10th, 2012 | Academics, Parents | Read More
Special Educator’s Toolkit
We’ve been so busy that we forgot to show where the new book is available. Here are two sites to try for great prices in the US on The Special Educator’s Toolkit. It’s also available in several other countries.
Amazon
Books A Million
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February 12th, 2012 | Parents | Read More
Guest Post: Birthday Party Planning for Kids with Disabilities
By: Stephanie St. Martin
Johanna C. knows all too well the chaos and anxiety that come with back-to-school season. The mother of three active boys spends much of her time catering to their various needs: carting them to practices and after-school activities and helping them with their homework. But...
October 22nd, 2011 | Activities, Parents | Read More
Organizers for the Classroom and Home
In browsing the internet world – we came across several interesting organizational ideas. Here are a few of the organizing ideas we found that could be used for the classroom and home. Enjoy!
Clothespins for labeling — I don’t know why we haven’t thought of this before –...
September 25th, 2011 | Organization | Read More
Child Trauma
Child Trauma can affect all of our students — those who are neurotypical and functioning in the average to high average range of ability and those functioning much lower with special needs.
What is trauma? Here is a list of events that may be classified as trauma events in the lives of our children...
September 10th, 2011 | Parents | Read More
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