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Social Engagement > Community Living
How to Find Social Groups and Community Programs for People with Disabilities
...parent organizations, or programs designed for children. The groups that do exist for adults with disabilities...invisible unless you know exactly where to look. Here's where to start, what to ask before you attend,...events for adults with developmental disabilities. Programming varies by chapter, but most run regular social...
Lifestyle > Art
How Art Therapy Helps Children and Adults with Special Needs: Benefits, Methods, and Getting Started
Your child's therapist mentions...don't know if it's legitimate clinical...expensive recreational programming, or something parents...feelings attached. It's a regulated clinical...functional tasks. Here's what art therapy is,...Therapy Is and What It's Not. Art therapy is...understands what's emerging on the page....ATR-BC, has a master's degree in art therapy,...
News > Education
PBS KIDS is Still Going Strong
...Rotenberg, General Manager of Children's Programming at PBS, recently...General Manager of Children's Programming at PBS, recently...General Manager of Children's Programming at PBS, recently spoke about...the screen is turned off." It's hard to believe, but in September...we introduced Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood." That show was...
Special Needs > Speech and Communication Impairments
Communicating with Your Special Needs Child
...special needs fall within our expectations, and that’s the reason why we don’t really consider them "special."...to the one that some parents of special needs children have to endure for years, but I have no doubt that...years, but I have no doubt that Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) can help. NLP is a relatively new field that...
Parenting > School Years
NLP for Parents of Kids with Special Needs
...have the tools do deal with it. Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) studies the structure of personal experience...nothing more than that: things that happen. It’s how we choose (unconsciously for the most part)...the situation, and that is because (as one of NLP’s Presuppositions states), people have all the resources...
Lifestyle > Independence
June Cleaver I am Not
...a happy marriage, and 2.5 "normal" children who will at times be faced with the...current family life. Throughout the 70's and '80's, people with differences...life. Throughout the 70's and '80's, people with differences were almost...never portrayed in regular television programming. All the main characters were deliciously...
Therapies > Speech
Speech-Based Activities for Kids with Apraxia
...speech (CAS), is a neurologically-based motor speech disorder in which children know what they want to say, yet they have a difficult time coordinating...repeat, repeat, repeat! Movement repetitions build strong motor planning/programming/gestures. Can you say that again? Provide lots of opportunities throughout...
Special Needs > Speech and Communication Impairments
Augmentative and Alternative Communication: The Voice of Success for Your Child
...and alternative communication (AAC) leads many children to success in school and life. It is generally...text-based messages. Ready-to-use vocabulary reduces programming demands. Device content may be organized by age...accommodating a range of physical abilities. Children may touch the device screen directly. Those with...
Education > Tutoring
The Voice of Success For Your Child
...and alternative communication (AAC) leads many children to success in school and life. It is generally...text-based messages. Ready-to-use vocabulary reduces programming demands. Device content may be organized by age...accommodating a range of physical abilities. Children may touch the device screen directly. Those with...
Special Needs > Cerebral Palsy
Hip Surveillance for Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Parent's Guide to the Monitoring Schedule
...cerebral palsy, there's a monitoring schedule...heard about yet. It's called hip surveillance,...surveillance, and it's designed to catch...exists for a reason: children with CP are at...outcomes. Here's what hip surveillance...based on your child's GMFCS level. What...child grows. It's not treatment....not treatment. It's early detection....release surgery. Why Children with CP Are at...
Special Needs > Cerebral Palsy
Navigating Spasticity Treatments in Cerebral Palsy: Botox, SDR, and Orthotics Explained
...is giving you the full picture. Here's the framework you needed three appointments...spasticity at different points in the body's system. Botox injections temporarily...signals causing spasticity in the legs. It's one-time, irreversible, and affects...treatments address the underlying tone. Most children with moderate to severe spasticity use...
Special Needs > Autism Spectrum
Sleep and Autism: Evidence-Based Help for Children Who Can't Fall Asleep or Stay Asleep
...Two-thirds of autistic children have chronic...sleep patterns in children on the spectrum....many autistic children, and the sensory...enough. Here's what the research...Why Autistic Children Struggle With...Many autistic children produce melatonin...neurotypical children, which delays...and the child's awareness of...transition, and for children who find transitions...