Bookshelf Essentials: Life Skills Books
Life Skills Books Moms Move Mountains by Susan Magers and Donna Spencer: With over 20 years experience in Special Education, the authors have compiled strategies for addressing issues from the...
Sept/Oct 2016
2016 Cover Winner: Madison & Dane
Madison & Dane This month’s cover features Madison Elliot, 9, and her younger brother, Dane Becker who is seven. They also have a “newest addition” to their family with Nathan,...
Handy School Tools Parents Will Love
Handy School Tools Parents Will Love Back-to-school shopping can be simultaneously exhilarating, sticker shock-producing, and full of hopeful possibilities for a new beginning. We know that getting organized, dusting off...
Mommy’s Timeout: Out in the Woods Fall Leaves
Take a time out and use visualization meditation to relax. Imagine yourself standing amongst the warm colors of the fall leaves. Enjoy nature’s shapes, light, and beauty. Take a...
Your Aura and Its Connection to Alternative Medicine
In 2006, I resigned my faculty position at the medical school where I had worked for twelve years. I felt strongly that there had to be a better way, a...
Language and Literacy Learning: Success With Technology
Language and Literacy Learning: Success With Technology The playing field for emergent language and literacy learning may be more level than ever for children with complex communication needs. Technologies designed...
Supporting Teen Behavior and Loving Relationships
Supporting Teen Behavior and Loving Relationships What happened to my loving, cooperative child? Many parents of children with special needs find themselves frustrated when their tried-and true strategies stop working...
Real Moms Share: Why Lola Won’t Be Going to School This Year
Today is the first day of school for kids going to school at the Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (ISBVI). Normally, Lola would be waking up at...
Strategies for Great IEP Meetings
I have attended countless IEP meetings and worn various hats: mother, friend, advocate, and professional. The most difficult were, without a doubt, those IEP meetings for my (now 20-year-old) daughter....
