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Trending Topics: A Hero with Cerebral Palsy, The Latest in Wheelchair Design, and STRESS

This edition of Trending Topics includes the top stories and Blog posts from the past 2 weeks. From new research to the latest in wheelchair technology. (Spoiler: did you ever think you could use your tongue to control a wheelchair?) What were your favorite special needs stories?

Top News Stories

1. HERO: Man With Cerebral Palsy Saves Woman's Life In Metro-North Derailment
2. Oxytocin Found to Stimulate Social Brain Regions in Children With Autism
3. Tongue-controlled wheelchair could offer a faster way for quadriplegics to get around
4. Michigan superintendents joining chorus opposing changes to federal special education funding requirements
5. UCLA team first to map autism-risk genes by function

Top Blog Posts

1. International Day of Persons with Disabilities: 9 Reasons to Celebrate
2. Disability is Not Inability
3. Is Poverty Contributing to the Rise in Childhood ADHD?
4. Accessible Cruises Grow As the Way to Go
5. WATCH: 'Disabled' Mannequins Will Change The Way You See Beauty
6. Why Don't We Design a Better Wheelchair?

Video of the Week

Across Indonesia in a Wheelchair

Highlights From the Friendship Circle Resource Blog

1. STRESS: The 20 Things I Need to Remember Every Single Second for my Child With Special Needs
2. 6 Steps to Visionary Planning for your Child with Special Needs
3. 19 Toys & Apps that can help develop Language and Social Skills in Children with Autism
4. The 10 Qualities of a Great Paraprofessional
5. 15 Holiday Eating Tips that can Help your Child with Special Needs
6. Five Lessons Parents of a Child with Special Needs can Learn From Chanukah
7. Five Tips for Getting Insurance to Pay for Therapy

From the Friendship Circle App Review

1. Making Sequences
2. Art Maker
3. Question Sleuth

The Weplay® Forever Up-Down and Tricky Fish enhance one's reflexes as well as improving hand-eye coordination. The Forever Up-Down has a slow and a fast ball, simply turn the toy over as the ball flows through the track. The Weplay Tricky Fish can be manipulated with one or two hands. The contained side offers a basic maze, turn the item over for a more difficult track.

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