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A Bank Pays Off A Special Needs Mom’s Mortgage: Happy News Alert
OK, here’s your happy news of the week. Maybe your entire month. Lisa Anderson lives in Austell, Georgia with her 20-year-old twin daughters, Amber and Alicia Whatley, who both have cerebral palsy....
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Best Kept Secret: When Kids With Autism Grow Up And Age Out
This is a post in the weekly Autism Hopes series by Lisa Quinones-Fontanez, a mom who blogs over at Atypical Familia. My son, Norrin, is eight years old and I try my best to focus on where he is now...
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Inclusion Classrooms For Kids With Special Needs
Max goes to a wonderful school for kids with special needs. Yet at times, I have second thoughts about whether I’m doing him wrong by not sending him to an inclusive program in a public school. When...
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Getting Kids With Disabilities To Be Physically Active
Nearly half of all adults with disabilities get no aerobic physical activity, finds a new report from The Centers for Disease Control. It’s not hard to understand why, especially if you have a child...
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5 Tips for Traveling By Plane with Your Special Needs Child
This is a post in the weekly Autism Hopes series by Lisa Quinones-Fontanez, a mom who blogs over at Atypical Familia. In a few weeks, we’ll be on our way to the Most Magical Place on Earth. It will be...
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A Teen With Autism Speaks At Graduation: Extreme Inspiration
It’s an achievement and honor for any student to speak at their school graduation. But for Dillan Barmache, 14, it was an opportunity to let people to know he has a voice. Dillan has autism, and is...
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A New Bike Built For Kids With Special Needs
This is a post in the weekly Autism Hopes series by Lisa Quinones-Fontanez, a mom who blogs over at Atypical Familia. Jyrobike is the World’s First Auto Balance Bicycle that features a patented...
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Bike Camps For Kids Disabilities
I’ve been reading about bike programs that teach kids with disabilities to ride two-wheel bikes. Fun Coast Down Syndrome Association’s Balance Bike Camp recently took place in Palm Coast, Florida; a...
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This Is The Way Inclusion Should Be
Yesterday I was flipping through the September issue of Parents magazine, and landed on an article about finding a good preschool for toddlers. My kids are in grade school, but I was thrilled to come...
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Can We Change The Way Society Thinks About Disability?
Yesterday, I read an article about a PhD candidate in New Zealand who will be looking into changing the way society thinks about disability. Titled “Reimagining Disability,” the research will explore...
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Toilet Training A Child With Special Needs: Parents’ Top Tricks
I recently found out about Touchless Toilet Technology from Kohler—a way to flush just by holding a hand over the tank lid, where a sensor has been placed. It’s really cool, and it seems like it would...
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The Awful Prank On An Autistic Teen—And How We Can Prevent This
The web has been buzzing over a vile incident involving a 15-year-old with autism in Bay Village, Ohio. A group of teens asked him over to their house, purportedly to participate in the ALS Ice Bucket...
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Will Your Child With Autism Be In An Inclusive Class? Depends On Where You Live
Where you live can have a major impact on whether your child with autism will end up in an inclusive or segregated class, according to a study in the journal Focus on Autism and Other Developmental...
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Confessions Of A Special Needs Helicopter Parent
The following essay is by Gary Dietz, dad to Alex, 14, who has multiple disabilities. It’s from a wonderful new book of essays and poems Gary edited, Dads of Disability: Stores for, by, and about...
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A Dad And His Daughter With Disabilities Dance, You May Just Cry
I’ve just watched a video three times in a row, crying continuously. It’s the one of a daddy-daughter dance that’s gone viral. I mean, anytime I see fathers dancing with their girls I get a bit choked...
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What Kids Want To Be When They Grow Up: A Fascinating Poll
The number-one job kids would like to have they grow up: superhero. That’s per a new poll of 3910 adults who are parents to children under age 10. Other career aspirations that top kids’ lists (in...
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Let’s Convince Others How Capable People With Disabilities Are
If you have a child with special needs, you know what an uphill battle it can be getting people see the ability in disability. Now imagine that your child is an adult—and the challenges both of you...
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When Parents Wish They Never Had Their Child With Disability
“While I do love my son, and am fiercely protective of him, I know our lives would have been happier and far less complicated if he had never been born. I do wish I’d had an abortion. I wish it every...
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Helping Kids With Autism Feel Comfortable On Plane Trips
Wings for Autism, an airport “rehearsal” that helps kids with autism feel calmer about flying, held a program at Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina this weekend. Run by...
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13 Holiday Tips for Special Needs Parents
This is a post in the weekly Autism Hopes series by Lisa Quinones-Fontanez, a mom who blogs over at Atypical Familia. Another holiday season is upon us. And holidays mean family gatherings, parties and...
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