Hunter Syndrome: A Focus on Rare and Unique Disease
Hunter Syndrome From personality to appearance, every child is unique. Most characteristics are passed down to children from their parents’ DNA. If there is an error in this DNA, genetic...
Health & Development
Surgery Survival Guide: A Practical Guide to Coping with Surgery
Download: Surgery Survival: A Practical Guide for Coping with Surgery The Walker Family has endured 50+ surgeries as they have coped with multi-congenital defects syndrome with their four children. Surgery...
How to Help Your Child Cope With Incontinence At School
Returning to school can be an exciting time as kids are ready to learn new things and see their friends again. However, it can also be a source of stress...
Art Therapy: How It Works, the Benefits, How to Start
Art Therapy: What it is and isn’t [Click to Listen to Podcast] Today we’re talking with Raquel Farrell-Kirk, MS, ATR-BC about art therapy: What it is and isn’t. Raquel has been...
The Benefits of Delegating Your to-do List to Your Kids
How to delegate your to-do list to your kids. [Click to Listen to Podcast] In today’s conversation, we’re going to talk about delegating your to-do list to your kids. If we want to raise...
Natural Remedies for the Gut-Brain Connection
After reading our report The Gut-Brain Connection and Children with Special Needs, you are probably wondering what you can do to help balance crucial gut flora. Food will not heal...
What is Williams Syndrome?
In an effort to raise awareness on the various disorders, Parenting Special Needs magazine will be spotlighting one disorder per issue.
In this issue we are spotlighting Williams Syndrome (WS)
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...
The Gut-Brain Connection and Children with Special Needs
Gut-Brain Connection The gut-brain connection may have a direct impact on children with special needs. Deep in the walls of the digestive system is the body’s “second brain”. This enteric...
Organizing Your Child’s Brain Through Crawling and Creeping
Crawling and Creeping When I first met Benjamin Thompson, he was struggling with echolalia (unsolicited repetition of vocalizations), extreme hyperactivity, self-biting, and poor eating and sleep habits. He had been...
