Learn Your Special Education Laws, Special Education Rights, and Share IEP Goal Ideas

Children with special needs experience more frustration and academic failure than other children, and most of them do not graduate from college.  Read the rest of this entry →

Fun Math Activities
Kids get lots of practice with calculation, worksheets and procedures at school, but unfortunately, they get almost no practice with real-life skills, activities that develop conceptual understanding or FUN! Read the rest of this entry →

Build Your Child’s Enthusiasm for School 

Children who’ve had more difficulty with the social or academic aspects of school can be reluctant to return to the demands of the educational environment.  The antidote to reluctance is to get a toehold on eager anticipation of FUN!  Read the rest of this entry →

When my son was around four years old he was seeing an occupational therapist and one of his problems was manipulating anything with his fingers.  It was difficult for him to hold a pencil, button his shirt, zip up his pants, etc.  The occupational therapist recommended buying a v-smile educational video game system for small children. Read the rest of this entry →

When you first start talking about having children you dream about your life as a parent.  A lot of the dreams incorporate sharing your passions with this child.  This could include playing sports, an instrument, learning to draw or paint and many other of life’s passions.  When learning your child has special needs the loss of this dream will trigger strong emotions.  These emotions are similar to learning about any of life’s losses and will require the person to go through the five stages of grief.  Read the rest of this entry →

Death.  It one of several subjects most of us are reluctant to discuss.  However, unlike other topics, a discussion of death brings up feelings about our own mortality.  It scares us to …well… death.  Cultural anthropologists have often found much can be learned about a culture by how it treats its dead. Read the rest of this entry →

“I’ll never use algebra, so what do I need it for?  No one really cares what happened during the War of 1812, so why learn it?  Tell me what job I’ll have that I have to recite poetry.”  Read the rest of this entry →

READ THIS NOW.  6-34-2-22-57-9-823-5-61  Now turn your head away from the page, and, without looking back, try to repeat those numbers.   Read the rest of this entry →

Fear! It seems to strike you often when your child is in your presence, particularly when you appear in public.  How can everyone else describe your child with words like “quiet, well-mannered, and polite?”  Are they talking about the same child that becomes a terrorist in your presence?  What’s wrong?  Read the rest of this entry →

Small for Gestational Age (SGA) is what my son was classified with when he was born.  When I was pregnant, my doctor kept a close eye on my son’s size.  She even sent me to a specialist to track his growth the last trimester.  He was always on the lower end of the growth chart during pregnancy. Read the rest of this entry →