This time last year, my son was just starting to use verbal language. However, when I asked him what he wanted to be for Halloween last year, he answered right away, “A Pumpkin…Big Pumpkin.”
Flummoxed as to where to buy a pumpkin costume for a school-age child, our son’s babysitter tried her hand at making one. [...]
When I took my son to physical therapy on Tuesday, all of the therapists including my son’s, were dressed up in Halloween costumes. He was very confused. Luckily not scared, just couldn’t tell who was who because some people were wearing wigs that were not the same color as their hair. Apparently, hair color is [...]
Ready, set, GO! Are you ready?? The holidays are here!
With Halloween just a few days away, it’s time to prepare yourself and your family for the upcoming holiday season. Halloween can be a challenging time for children with special needs. There are lots of things to contend with…sugar, spooky costumes, crazy [...]
Actress, Singer, and Author Holly Robinson Peete gave the Keynote Address at the USAAA 2008 Autism & Asperger International Conference held in Austin last month. The conference focused on biomedical, behavioral and developmental presentations related to the treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Ms. Peete’s keynote address focused on her own personal journey with autism through retelling [...]
The 9th annual Down Syndrome Association of Central Texas “Buddy Walk” will be held this Sunday, October 19th, at Reunion Park in Georgetown, Texas. Click here to get more details. The event is FREE and everyone is invited to attend and enjoy the entertainment, that includes local kid-pleaser, Joe McDermott, along with games and the [...]
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 [...]
Austin will host the 44th annual Learning Disabilities Association of Texas conference today and tomorrow at the Sheraton Austin Hotel in downtown Austin. Parents are welcome to attend, as well as people with learning disabilities, regular and special educators, counselors, psychologists, speech/language pathologists, physicians, social workers, and other professionals who work with persons with learning [...]
You may have noticed that the homepage of special needs neighborhood.com has added some additional features in the past few weeks. The site now has a new headline at the top of the landing page that says, “What’s New This Week,” and it links you to a page where we have a listing of the [...]
DJ Svoboda is a 26-year-old artist from North Carolina who also has autism spectrum disorder. DJ contacted our website, www.specialneedsneighborhood.com to help him reach out to people with autism and other disabilities to tell them about his website, www.myimagiville.com and to communicate a message of hope about growing up and living with autism (or any [...]
