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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
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
Meet Becky Barnfather……and her son.
I want you to meet Becky Barnfather. I want you to meet her because she has so much in common with both me and you. Becky loves to organize. She is addicted to the art of organizing all areas of her life. And in this she is so much like me.
Becky also has a child with Autism. And in this...
September 6th, 2011 | Organization, Parents | Read More
Here are a few of our favorite things….
SO many of our Readers email and ask to recommend some items to organize the home and classroom of children with autism and other types of disabilities. Well we pondered the questions and thought about how to make it easier on us and our readers. This is what we came up with . It will be included...
September 4th, 2011 | Organization, Parents | Read More
Just Cool Stuff for School
This is not a post about Autism or other types of disabilities. It’s just Cool stuff for the beginning of school. Our students with special needs are still kids. Sometimes we need to stop thinking about IEP’s and BIPs and FBAs and all of the differences in their needs and just start...
August 28th, 2011 | Autism Awareness, Free Printables, Parents | Read More
Quick Screening for Early Diagnosis of Autism- CSBS-DP
We all know that early detection of autism is one of the keys to children becoming more appropriately skilled in the area of communication, social skills and independent living skills. We wanted to provide you with some information about the detection of those early signs in babies and very young children.
Here...
April 30th, 2011 | Autism, Parents | Read More
March of Dimes Walk for Babies
March of Dimes is a wonderful organization that provides resources for millions of Babies. Autism, Down Syndrome, and other developmental disabilities affect our Babies and very young children. We, as a community, want to find a cure so our children can grow up without restraints being placed on them...
April 24th, 2011 | Miscellaneous, Parents | Read More
Autism Awareness – View from a Parent
In honor of Autism Awareness Month we have asked a wonderful mother of teenage twin boys with Asperger’s Syndrome to write an article and share a little about her experience with Autism.
By: Jo Ellen Hancock
I was asked by a good friend to write an article about raising teenagers with Asperger’s...
April 2nd, 2011 | Autism Awareness, Parents | Read More
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