How to Find the Right Help as a Special Needs Parent

How to Find the Right Help as a Special Needs Parent

With about six million children requiring special education services, you may very well be the parent of a special needs child. Your journey may be difficult. How can you be sure you are getting the best care for your child? Are there programs to help your child that you don’t know about? What can you [...]

15 Reasons Why Its Hard To Get Along With Special Needs Parents

Why are special needs parents so difficult to get along with

Have you ever wondered why parents of kids with special needs always seem to be so cranky? Or why we tend to make really inappropriate remarks so often? Or why other parents of kids with special needs laugh at those inappropriate remarks like it’s an inside joke? The Life We Live Special needs parenting is [...]

14 Must Read Special Needs Blog Posts

Special Needs News and Blogs

Every Sunday, we select the week’s big special needs news stories and blog posts. This week, however, we bring you 14 great blog posts from the past two weeks. Ams Vans: Traveling with Special-Needs Children Is Worth the Effort Every child with autism reacts differently when their routine is disrupted by family traveling, but careful [...]

20 Special Needs News Stories and Blog Posts from this week

Every Sunday, we select the week’s big special needs stories and great blog posts from special needs bloggers. This week, we bring you nine news stories, five blog posts, and what you may have missed this week from the Friendship Circle blog. Forbes: Living Life With Autism II: Perspectives Alice Walton’s last article on living [...]

Volunteers at work

Zora gives a hug to her volunteer Zoe

Friendship Circle is an amazing place. From the purple sand in the tactile room to the cheese pit here, the first time I visited, I knew my kids would never tire of playing here…and they don’t.  What I didn’t know is that the people here would be even more alluring than the toys and the [...]