Mar/Apr 2017

How to Sneak in Physical Therapy on Vacation 0

How to Sneak in Physical Therapy on Vacation

How to Sneak in Physical Therapy on Vacation Spring break approaches. Summer approaches. Trips are planned. What you can’t always plan, however, is getting the physical activity your child might...

Analyzing Patterns 0

Analyzing Patterns

After identifying broad goals and routines you would like to address for your child… and beginning to track specific behaviors that you want to increase and/or decrease, the next step...

2017 Cover Winner: Amelia Grace Vitacco 0

2017 Cover Winner: Amelia Grace Vitacco

Amelia Grace Vitacco This issue’s cover features 6-year-old Amelia Grace Vitacco. Amelia has been diagnosed with Down’s syndrome and she loves to dance, play with her dolls and have tea...

Mommys Timeout Daffodil Field 0

Mommy’s Timeout: Daffodil Field

  Take a time out and use visualization meditation to relax. Imagine yourself standing in this field of Daffodil’s. Take a couple of deep breaths and begin to let go...

Sharing “I CAN!” attitudes: Kelsey 0

Sharing “I CAN!” attitudes: Kelsey

Kelsey Shares a Proud Moment My hero is my daughter, Kelsey Norris, age 13. Kelsey is on the autism spectrum – Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) and has Rubenstein-Taybi Syndrome. She is...

Fun Food Apps to Encourage Healthy Eating 0

Fun Food Apps to Encourage Healthy Eating

Fun Food Apps How many of us remember our parents telling us “Don’t play with your food!” as we were growing up? Well, the apps listed below encourage talking about...

The Folly of Fitness Focus a User’s Guide 0

The Folly of Fitness Focus a User’s Guide

Fitness Focus Alright, so this being the health issue should make my contribution easy, right? Then there’s the specificity of why fitness is important for health, or what health actually...

Staying Healthy with a Proper Diet 0

Staying Healthy with a Proper Diet

Proper Diet What if the big pharmaceutical companies went out of business because their star drug was proven to cause serious and irreversible damage to the human body? What if...