Bubble Blowing Game
Take out a bubble wand and a jar of bubbles and blow and every kid (and grown-up) gets captivated. In this game, they can make all the bubbles they want...
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Penny Flick Game
This is a quickly organized social and fine motor game with an easy to find material, pennies. Partner two children across from each other or have children sitting around a...
Dump and Fill Game
Enjoying filling and dumping out objects is a stage in every child’s development. In this game it’s the filling step that is the changing challenge. Setup If you use a...
Eight Key Design Issues for Special Needs Environmental Design
There are several design strategies that can be implemented into K-12 school settings that aid children and teens with autism and other special needs
Easter Candy and Hyper Kids: A Colorful Connection
Every Easter, millions of children fill up on the jelly beans, chocolate bunnies and hard candies in their Easter baskets and become hyper as they savor their candies all week. Most parents never suspect
A book review of: Healing and Preventing Autism: A Complete Guide
Jenny McCarthy: Playboy Centerfold. Comedienne. Mother Warrior. Brash. Blunt. Love her or hate her, one thing cannot be disputed
The Power of Play
One of the fascinating facts about brain development is that as far as the brain is concerned, we are all born premature
A Spectrum of Options to help Individuals with AUTISM
In the past 10 to 15 years, outstanding strides have been made in science to help better understand and combat one of the most complex biological disorders that strikes
Life’s Mystery- “Autism” The Missing Puzzle Piece!
Out there, yes out there! Somewhere far beyond our expectation lays the mystery of the missing puzzle piece. A puzzle piece we must
Patricia Plunkett “Everyday Heroes”
My friend, my confidante, my teacher, my son’s hero, my hero In the summer of 1998, I went to my orientation seminar at the University of Connecticut. I was sitting...
