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Education > Other
Supporting Children with Special Needs through Early Intervention
...identify and meet children's needs in five key areas: physical skills, thinking skills, communication skills, social/emotional skills, and self-help skills....child's brain develops rapidly in the first three years of life. This is a critical time for learning and development. If a young child has a developmental...
Assistive Tech > Virtual Assistants
Assistive Tech: Revolutionizing the Education Landscape
...effectively. The essence of mind mapping lies in its ability to foster critical thinking skills. By visually organizing their thoughts, students learn...effectively. The essence of mind mapping lies in its ability to foster critical thinking skills. By visually organizing their thoughts, students learn to categorize...
Education > Tutoring
Unblock the Momentum of Learning
...learning. Belief that learning has little or no momentum of its own is so critical to teaching that I am convinced if parents and teachers reversed their...to teaching that I am convinced if parents and teachers reversed their thinking on this one concept, then cognitive blocks to learning would be freed-up,...
Assistive Tech > Apps
Special Needs App of the Day: Piece Me Birds
...challenging, and puzzles help with mental acuity, visual-spatial skills, critical thinking, and patience....challenging, and puzzles help with mental acuity, visual-spatial skills, critical thinking, and patience....
Special Needs > Attention Deficit Disorders
ADD/HD: Can’t Fix, Not Broken
...dialogue based classrooms, filled with interactive activities Engage them in critical thinking based...classrooms, filled with interactive activities Engage them in critical thinking based...
Health > Mental Health
Q&A with Dr. Kevin Ross Emery
...Western philosophy, I advocate for action-consequence based parenting, critical thinking based education models, and combining learning and education styles....philosophy, I advocate for action-consequence based parenting, critical thinking based education models, and combining learning and education styles....
Special Needs > General Special Needs
Understanding Reactive Attachment Disorder
...common among children who were subject to severe abuse and neglect during critical stages of brain development in infancy. I argued then that the misdiagnosing...fear of attaching to anyone, an inability to understand cause and effect thinking and a compulsive need to control everyone and every situation. Extreme...
Assistive Tech > Mobility
Scooter Boards and Prone Carts for Early Mobility
...Benefits Most. Prone scooter boards and prone carts work best for children with conditions that affect their ability to move independently during the critical early years, including: Cerebral palsy, particularly children...
Assistive Tech > Mobility
Tilt-in-Space Wheelchairs: When and Why Your Child Needs Pressure Relief
...their position within the chair, which sidesteps that skin damage risk entirely. For children who can reposition themselves, this difference is less critical. For children who can't, it changes everything. Who Needs Tilt-in-Space. Three groups of children consistently have genuine clinical need for this...
Education > K-12
Transition Planning Through K-12: Preparing Your Child for School Changes
When to start planning K-12 transitions, what belongs in transition IEPs, and how to preserve critical supports.
Assistive Tech > Hardware
Wearable Technology for Autism: Evidence-Based Monitoring vs Marketing Hype
...benefits, that gap matters. This article separates evidence-based tools from marketing hype. We'll examine what the research demonstrates, explore four critical concerns every parent should understand, identify the limited areas where wearables do have legitimate evidence, and discuss practical alternatives...
Research > Funding
Private Foundations Funding Disability Research: A Guide for Advocates and Families
...Foundation Autism Research Initiative) has funded more than 2,100 publications across 360+ investigators. That's not supplemental support. That's critical infrastructure. For families navigating cerebral palsy, fragile X syndrome, or rare genetic conditions, the funding picture looks different. NIH cerebral...