April is autism awareness month. Special Needs Neighborhood.com will share videos, news, activities and more during April to help raise awareness about autism and to celebrate the families and children that autism affects.
Do you know what life is living with autism? Eric does and here’s a brief look at his life.
How can you support a family member [...]
Courtesy of Brie of Austin – 10 years old
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Has anyone ever said to you that you’re smothering your child?
I was reading a special education thread today where a mom related an incident with her son’s therapist involving how the therapist told her that she needed to give her son some space. The mom really was upset about the therapist’s remarks. Here she’s spent years handling [...]
This week is number 4 at Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes. I think that the program is worth the financial sacrifice we made. My daughter’s language is changing. Her expressions are more sophisticated and she’s experimenting with new vocabulary words. She pays attention to details about her surroundings. For example, she stops to read informational signs and applies what [...]
Sound Bites
I have only good news to report. We are through Day 4 at Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes (Lulabell as my daughter calls it) and my daughter is working hard and having a good time doing it. She easily gets out of bed and through her morning routine so that she is the first child to [...]
More thoughts around Autism Awareness….>>
We met a little boy today who made my heart smile. His name was Alan and he was nine. He was a tall, lean boy with messy brown, medium-length hair, warm brown eyes and a ready smile.
My daughter noticed him immediately as he rode his red bike into the playground and plunked it down as [...]
I spent my weekend filling out my 2009 daily planner. It’s my New Year ritual.
I love shopping for my new planners. I feel like I’m ushering out the old year and welcoming the new one when I exchange them.
My 2009 planner is red. So, I’m feeling pretty hot! It’s got pockets for business cards, pens [...]
We have much to be thankful for at Special Needs Neighborhood.com this year…
We are thankful for parents , caregivers and providers that have shared their resources, we are thankful for the readers that comment on the blog and the community Q&A section, we are thankful that people add events that all of us can attend and we [...]
One of the reasons that Kim and I chose the name Special Needs Neighborhood.com as the website’s name is because we wanted other parents and caregivers like us, who have children with special needs or care for people with unique needs, to have a place that felt like “home” to them. So often parents like [...]
