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SUMMER FUN

Summer Planning for Autistic Children

Summer Planning for Autistic Children

Summer is here, bringing with it beach trips, bike rides, family vacations, and carefree days. While the break... Read More

Making Connections

Making Connections

Providing a safe space where individuals with disabilities can connect with peers who understand their unique... Read More

Community Inclusion Includes the Arts

Community Inclusion Includes the Arts

Inclusion of people with disabilities must include all facets of community life, including the arts. ... Read More

Cooper’s Story: The Vital Role of Summer Camps for Children with  Disabilities

Cooper’s Story: The Vital Role of Summer Camps for Children with Disabilities

As a mom of three, it can be quite challenging to find the right camps to fit each child’s specific need... Read More

International Travel Offers Great Opportunities for Youth with Disabilities to Develop Personally and Professionally

International Travel Offers Great Opportunities for Youth with Disabilities to Develop Personally and Professionally

In this increasingly globalized world, greater cultural awareness is valuable for anyone, with or without a di... Read More

Fun Ways to Prevent the Summer Reading Slide

Fun Ways to Prevent the Summer Reading Slide

Eight-year-old Alec was a very motivated student during his daily dyslexia intervention at school. He had been... Read More

Travel and Summer Fun with a Service Dog

Travel and Summer Fun with a Service Dog

It is amazing how traveling with a service dog can provide so much assistance for you. Before the passing of m... Read More

Helping People with Disabilities Live in Their Communities – Rather Than Institutions

Helping People with Disabilities Live in Their Communities – Rather Than Institutions

Sometimes individuals with disabilities end up in nursing homes or other institutional settings, even as young... Read More

Meet Gianna

Meet Gianna

I have had the pleasure of meeting and talking to Gianna Rojas many times. Gianna, the self-proclaimed “... Read More

The Great Outdoors:Warm Weather Tips and Precautions

The Great Outdoors:Warm Weather Tips and Precautions

As we move into the warmer months, we are all but assured to be spending more time outside. Taking measures to... Read More

How to Create Structure During the Summer

How to Create Structure During the Summer

For many children with special needs, particularly those with Autism, classroom schedules and routines provide... Read More

Summer Screens: How Much Screen Time is Too Much?

Summer Screens: How Much Screen Time is Too Much?

  In Europe, The Independent recently reported that obesity is at ‘epidemic proportions,”... Read More

A Positive and Funny Guy

A Positive and Funny Guy

Ryan Niemiller says “Stop focusing on what you can’t do and focus on what you can do better than a... Read More

Life-Ending Decisions

Life-Ending Decisions

In recent years, there have been a number of infants and children who have been denied organ transplantation b... Read More

Four Tips for Families from Occupational Therapists During the Summer of COVID-19

Four Tips for Families from Occupational Therapists During the Summer of COVID-19

The spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) has caused all of us to change routines in order to keep ourselves and lo... Read More

Plan Well for Your Exceptional Child… and Then Enjoy Every Moment of Your Time with Them

Plan Well for Your Exceptional Child… and Then Enjoy Every Moment of Your Time with Them

Sassy, friendly, confident. These are just several words people use to describe my daughter Sarah.... Read More