This Week’s recap of the latest special needs news and blog posts features another case of teacher abuse, an adult with special needs who saves his mother’s life, great blog posts from Ellen Seidman and Brenda Kosky Deskin and more news, blogs and special needs resources. Check it out below and let us know if [...]
Fidget toys are great self-regulation tools to help with focus, attention, calming, and active listening. We asked some of our contributing bloggers what widgets they would recommend. The results are some pretty neat fidget toys that will help your child with special needs. Check out all 21 below. Karen Wang 1. Rainbow twist and lock blocks [...]
Every Week we recap the previous week’s special needs news stories, blog posts and videos. Being Super Bowl Sunday, we cover Joe Flacco’s use of the R-Word, A moving letter from a Raven fan with his own challenges in life, NFL Players talking about ALS and more news stories and blog posts from the past [...]
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In the world of sports there are many inspiring stories and athletes. In the disability community there are many inspiring individuals who have stood up and spoken about inclusion and focusing an abilities. When you combine these communities you come up with some amazing individuals with special needs who have pushed the limits and show [...]
With hundreds of apps now available to help individuals with special needs it has become increasingly difficult to find and choose the right special needs app. After hearing from so many people how difficult it was to find a good special needs app, we took it upon ourselves to create a directory of apps for [...]
Every week we recap the latest special needs news stories, blog posts and videos from the past week. This week’s roundup includes stories about sports inclusion, what is a disability, meeting Owen Groesser and more great stories and posts! View the story “Special Needs News, Videos,Bogs and more 1/20/13-1/26/13″ on Storify
Children with autism and sensory challenges have many enemies when it comes to clothing. Clothing tags, exposed elastic bands and itchy socks are just some of the challenges facing children with special needs. As more parents start requesting sensory friendly clothing more stores will start to carry these products. To get you started in the [...]
Every week we recap the latest special needs news stories, blog posts and videos from the past week. This week’s roundup includes new studies about ADHD and Growing out of Autism, An inspiring video about a brother who takes his brother with Cerebral Palsy along with him on triathlons, and more great stories and blog posts. [...]
Over the years we have heard many inspirational stories about individuals with special needs who have focused on their abilities and have accomplished some pretty amazing things in their lives. Some of these individuals have gone on to help motivate others to look past their challenges and focus on the talents and abilities that they [...]
If you watch the news, listen to the radio, surf the web, or read any number of blogs you are guaranteed to come across an awareness day or two. Every day of the year has some type of awareness day or week, some as banal as Potato Awareness week and other dates which are much more [...]
