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How To Be A Good Friend To A Special Needs Mom
This is the second guest post from Andi Sligh, who blogs at Bringing the Sunshine. She recently published There’s Sunshine Behind the Clouds: Surviving the Early Years as a Special Needs Mom, a free...
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The Word That Ruined A Whole Book For Me
The selections my book club chooses are often hit and miss. So I was happy to dig into what seemed like some good chick lit, This One Is Mine, about a cast of characters in LA. On my train ride home...
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Make The First 5 Years Of Life Count For Your Child
This is a post in the weekly Autism Hopes series by Lisa Quinones-Fontanez, a mom who blogs over at AutismWonderland. My son, Norrin, was about 16-months old when I first suspected that something may...
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Is The Church Failing Kids With Special Needs?
One third of parents and other caregivers of kids with special needs polled say their church does not have a Sunday school program for their children. While it is heartening that 60 percent of the...
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Autism Research: One Fail, One Exciting Finding
A year ago, an Australian study was published in the journal Molecular Psychology claiming that a test could spot patterns of genetic variation that differed between people with autism and ones...
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The Trade-offs You Make When Your Kid Has Special Needs
This is a post in the weekly Autism Hopes series by Lisa Quinones-Fontanez, a mom who blogs over at AutismWonderland. It was just a typical Friday at the office. I was emailing my co-worker making...
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Learning Not To Obsess Over My Kid’s Costume
The first time Max wanted to be Lightning McQueen (the lead character in the movie Cars) for Halloween, I thought it was super-cute. I bought the costume, he wore it. Easy. And did I mention cute? The...
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Roll Model: A Woman On Wheels Aces Marathons
I recently exchanged tweets with disability advocate Nic Steenhout, who mentioned that he couldn’t stand the term “wheelchair bound.” As he once wrote on his blog, “The expression evokes images of...
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Finally! An Autism Study I Can Agree With
This is a post in the weekly Autism Hopes series by Lisa Quinones-Fontanez, a mom who blogs over at AutismWonderland. Over the years, I’ve read about many autism studies. Just a few weeks ago, a study...
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Better Plane Travel For Kids With Special Needs
Soon after US Airways got a $1.2 million fine for failing to provide proper wheelchair assistance to fliers, news came out that the U.S. Department of Transportation will make flying more accessible....
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Should Taiwan Be Eliminating Babies With Down Syndrome?
A report in the Taipei Times last week revealed that prenatal testing has significantly reduced the number of babies born alive with Down syndrome in Taiwan. While 70 percent of pregnancies positive...
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Autism Is Not A Crisis. But Families Do Need a Plan.
This is a post in the weekly Autism Hopes series by Lisa Quinones-Fontanez, a mom who blogs over at AutismWonderland. Five years ago, when my son Norrin was first diagnosed with autism, Autism Speaks...
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When Strangers Stick Up For People With Special Needs
The story of the man with Asperger’s who got berated by a customer at the supermarket for checking her out too slowly went viral after his big sis posted about it on Facebook. Jamie Virkler, 43, asked...
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How Moms Of Kids With Autism Can Reduce Stress
Moms of kids recently diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder can get seriously stressed—but they have the power to control it, finds a new study published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics. Researchers...
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This Is My Son. This Is Autism.
This is a post in the weekly Autism Hopes series by Lisa Quinones-Fontanez, a mom who blogs over at AutismWonderland. With my husband, Joseph, and son, Norrin. Celebrating Joseph’s birthday at one of...
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More Cases of ADHD—But Kids Are Missing Out On Treatment
There’s been a 42 percent rise in reported cases of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, per new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). About 6.4 million children 4 to 17...
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How The Brains Of Kids With Autism And Other Special Needs Work
If you’re the parent of a child with autism or other special needs, you may often wonder just how their brains work. Obviously, any kid’s brain is somewhat of a mystery, as you may well know when your...
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Blatant Disability Discrimination vs. Cowardly Discrimination: Which Is Worse?
Obviously, any kind of discrimination against kids and adults with disabilities is troubling. But two recent headline-making incidents have me mulling over blatant discrimination vs. the cowardly...
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Would You Cure Your Child’s Special Needs?
Lately, there’s been lots of news about “curing” special needs—scientists pinpointing the gene for autism or discovering it’s possible to switch off the genetic material responsible for Down syndrome....
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When Laws Are Made To Be Broken For Kids With Special Needs
J.J. Hart, a three-year-old boy with autism, used to sit around staring into space a lot. He barely spoke, and had temper tantrums. Then his dad started looking into animal therapy for kids with...
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