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7 May 2012

Review:The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students

By Jessica Minahan and Nancy Rappaport, MD for teachers, counselors, and parents to help anxiety-related, oppositional, withdrawn, and sexualized behaviors.

1 May 2012

Music as a Soother: Can Your Child and Family Benefit

How soothing music can defuse meltdowns, help with bedtime and homework routines, make car rides and family time more pleasant. Choose the right electronics

24 Apr 2012

Review of Educational Resource Book and Music CD: The Whole Shabang! Vol1

Kim Reuter & Russ Ellas’s have 17 original songs about the Sea and Garden- inspiring multi-sensory ideas for primary kids with or without different needs.

18 Apr 2012

Beth Burt, Author, Advocate and Mom of Two Kids with Special Needs

Co-author talks about Books on Behavior Solutions, shares parenting advice and info about inclusive classrooms, tells us these kids–different is not less!

Category: Autism, Interviews, Learning disabilities, Special needs book reviews, Special needs children | Comments: none | Tags: advice for parents of kids with special needs, ASD, author interview, behavior solutions, Beth Burt, Book on Behavior Solutions for Inclusive Classroom, inclusive classrooms, learning diability, parenting special needs kids, special needs book review

13 Apr 2012

Review of Toby, the Pet Therapy Dog, and His Hospital Friends

Great children’s picture book based on the true story from the book and movie, On Toby’s Terms to help your child or students learn how to be kind to others.

Category: Parenting all kids, Special needs book reviews, Special needs children | Comments: 2 | Tags: book for kids in hospital, book for special needs kids, book on being friends, book on kids with different needs, book to teach compassion to kids, importance of caring for others, On Toby`s Terms, pet therapy dog, picture book about therapy dog, picture book on being kind, special needs book review, therapy dogs

3 Apr 2012

Meet Dr. Duncan McKinlay Author of Nic Your Tics!

Canadian psychologist with Tourette himself has become the perfect mentor for all families coping with Tourette syndrome – about his book, site, and life.

Category: Interviews, Special needs book reviews, Special needs children, Tourette Syndrome | Comments: none | Tags: Dr. Duncan McKinlay, Dr.Dunc, Leaky Brakes Club, Nic Your Tics!, special needs book review, tics, Tourette and discrimination, Tourette and school, Tourette Syndrome, tourettes, TS, TS and associated disorders

27 Mar 2012

How to be Smart about Evaluating Autism Information and Approaches by Editors of TPGA

About the book and editors of Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism. Tips, warnings, and links for parents raising a child with autism or other special needs.

24 Mar 2012

Tips for Parents of Special Needs Kids from Beth Aune, OTR/L

One of the authors of Behavior Solutions books shares her work as an OT in schools- info, strategies, support– there is an explanation for that behavior!

Category: Asperger's, Autism, IEP Accommodations School, Interviews, Special needs children | Comments: none | Tags: ASD, Autism/Aspergers, behavior solutions, Beth Aune, inclusive classroom, inclusive school, interview, OT's work in schools, practical behavior solutions for schools, special needs books, tips for parents of special needs kids, tips for teachers of Special needs

16 Mar 2012

Book Review of You Are a Social Detective: Explaining Social Thinking to Kids

Book by Michelle G Winner & Pamela Crooke helps train your brain to help you figure out people around and know how to react towards others and how they feel

Category: Asperger's, Autism, Parenting all kids, Special needs book reviews, Special needs children | Comments: 1 | Tags: ASD and social problems, autism and social skills, communication problems in kids, explain social thinking to kids, how to become Social Thinkers, learn to do what is expected, Michelle Garcia Winner, ng, Pamela Crooke, Social Detective, social learning challenges, social smarts for kids, social thinking, work well with others

10 Mar 2012

Two Books on Behavior Solutions IN and BEYOND the Inclusive Classroom

Simple, on-the-spot, effective solutions to better the life of a child, his classmates, his parents, and his teachers. Read about the books and its authors.

28 Feb 2012

Finding Quality Time: Difficult for Both Parents and Siblings of Children with Special Needs

Dividing time between children is difficult. Make sure to plan special time to talk and connect with each child, see that each gets his turn and your time

Category: Interviews, Special needs book reviews, Special needs children, special needs moms | Comments: none | Tags: accepting a sibling who is sick, Julie Wolfe, My Holly, parenting and special needs, sibling with disabilities, siblings of children with special needs, understand about differences, understanding a sibling with special needs, understanding different abilities

27 Feb 2012

Meet Ellen Notbamn: Award Winning Author

Author, columnist, mother of sons with autism and ADHD, Ellen’s great advice to parents of special needs children on having productive working relationship

Category: Asperger's, Autism, Interviews, Special needs children | Comments: 4 | Tags: asperger's, author interview series, Autism, different-learner student, Ellen Notbohm, Parent-school partnerships, raising kids with ASD, resource book on teaching children with autism, tips for raising special needs children, tips for teaching kids with ASD

22 Feb 2012

Category: ADHD, Asperger's, Autism, IEP Accommodations School, Sensory Processing Disorder, Special needs children, special needs moms | Comments: 9 | Tags: ASD, Asperger's in Pink, Aspie teens and high school, Girls with Aspergers, Julie Clark, road to the diagnosis, school team, self-advocate, special needs and high school, teen aspie on school team, utism Spectrum Disorder