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5 Reasons You Should Consider Banking Your Newborn's Cord Blood
...transplants which will help your body to grow new bone marrow and other vital tissues. Here are five good reasons why you should consider the option of banking your newborn's cord blood. Helping a family member Whilst it is thankfully unlikely that your baby will have a disease that could be treated with...
Health > Alternative Medicine
An Unusual Way to Ensure Your Babies' Health
...is a "chance-in-a-lifetime" for many parents to ensure their newborn's health or for future use to save the baby's life. The umbilical cord blood banking entails collecting blood left in the newborn's placenta and umbilical cord and keeping it for future medical purposes. The cord blood richly contains...
Health > Treatment
Getting Your Child to Take Medicine: Evidence-Based Strategies That Actually Work
...refusal, liquid medicine battles, and sensory-driven medication resistance. These aren't generic "be patient" tips. They're techniques with clinical backing that you can start using today. The Pill-Swallowing Progression That Works. Many children refuse to swallow pills, and forcing it doesn't help. What...
Medical > Psychiatry
When Behavior Becomes Self-Harm: A Parent's Guide to Managing Self-Injurious Behavior in Children with Intellectual Disabilities
...the intervention hierarchy from functional assessment to psychiatric evaluation to crisis care. What Self-Injurious Behavior Is. SIB includes head-banging, hand-biting, self-scratching, hair-pulling, eye-poking, and skin-picking. It's repetitive, causes tissue damage, and persists despite your attempts...
Health > Alternative Medicine
Alternative Medicine for Special Needs: A Parent's Guide to Evidence, Safety, and Decision-Making
...with both evidence-based options and unproven claims. The challenge isn't whether to consider alternatives. It's knowing which ones have research backing, which carry real risks, and how to make decisions when the information available ranges from rigorous clinical trials to parent testimonials on forums....
Special Needs > General Special Needs
A Parents Guide To Understanding Tourette Syndrome
...syndrome: involuntary movements or tics (including blinking, shrugging, head jerking, Grimacing); making sounds (including grunting, throat clearing, barking); and repetitive behaviors or compulsions (including touching objects, repeating words or phrases). If you're concerned that your child may have Tourette...
Therapies > Speech
Speech-Based Activities for Kids with Apraxia
Parents can aid kids with apraxia with home speech activities like games, reading, nature walks, exercise, art, baking, and music.
Education > Tutoring
12 Activities to Promote Holiday Learning and Fun
Explore 12 holiday activities like baking, crafts, and family games that combine fun and learning for kids.
Lifestyle > Recreation
Olympus Has Fallen – Movie Review
...everyone. During the attack, the President's former Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Butler), now pushing pencils at the Treasury Department, heads over to...way through the gun battle into the building. When the shooting is over, Banning is the only good guy left in the White House, except for the hostages in...
Special Needs > Hearing Impairments
Ann LeZotte and Julie Jack, a Deaf Heroine
As a young child, Ann LeZotte was diagnosed as autistic because she banged her head. Eventually it was discovered that her head-banging was merely a response to the fact that she could not hear. Born prematurely and deaf, Ann also has trouble with lung function. Starting off life like...
News > Technology
Ruby Dee Overcomes Brain Injury with Cookbook
...street, and the driver of a car didn't see me. I'm guessing–the more I try to piece it together, you know, years down the road–I think that they were backing out of their driveway and they didn't see me." Ruby swerved to avoid being hit by the car. Her scooter hit a pothole in the street, and it went wheels...
Special Needs > Attention Deficit Disorders
Natural Remedies for ADD
...Instead, switch to more natural cleaners that rely on simple and natural ingredients. You can also make your own ingredients with the use of vinegar, baking soda, and essential oils. Greener cleaning products are also available through companies like Melaleuca and Seventh Generation. Commercial cleaners...