Sensory Celebrations – It’s Dr. Seuss’ Birthday
March is nationally recognized as Reading Month and for the past fifteen years, the National Education Association (NEA) has sponsored the Read Across America Day. It takes place yearly on March 2nd,...
View ArticleMikey: A Day at School through the Eyes of a Child with Autism
If you ever wondered what school was like through the eyes of a child with autism, Mikey takes you there! Mikey is sure to be a wonderful book to share with students as celebrations begin for Autism...
View ArticleFrom The Best Behavior Series: Words Are Not for Hurting
The older children get, the more words they know and can use – including hurtful words. teaches children that their words belong to them – they have the power to think before they speak and the power...
View ArticleThe Aspie Teen’s Survival Guide
A survival kit is typically full of many items to help a person withstand adverse or unusual conditions. Many teenagers with Asperger’s are continually trying to figure out how to exist in a...
View ArticleEncourage Proprioceptive Play with The Find Me Tunnel
Tunnels are a wonderful sensory tool to use in a home made obstacle course or use as a stand alone activity. A tunnel in the play room encourages wonderful sensory input for children in need of heavy...
View ArticleAsk and Answer “WH” Questions
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Do you have a child who struggles with answering “WH” questions such as who, what, when, where and why? WH questions tend The post...
View ArticleTurnaround: Turning Fear into Freedom
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights “1 in 8 children are diagnosed with an Anxiety Disorder. Separation Anxiety Disorder, Specific Phobia, and Obsessive Compulsive...
View ArticleDevelop Language with PECS & Sign Language
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights At 15 months, Christie Ann’s youngest son was not speaking and early intervention services were initiated. Christie Ann had begun...
View ArticleHave an Eloper? Solution to Keep Your Child Safe
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Meg had locked the front door as she always had done to prevent her eloper – “escape artist” – 3 year old The post Have an Eloper?...
View ArticleKeep Your Wanderer Safe with Project Lifesaver
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Special-Ism writer, Haley Moss, is an Ambassador to Project Lifesaver (PL). As a former child wanderer, Haley’s goal is to spread...
View ArticleSunscreen Battles with Your Tactile Defensive Child?
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights No one wants their little ones to suffer the harsh experience of a sun burn – and we want to protect our The post Sunscreen Battles...
View ArticleAuTeachism Therapist App
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Communication is the key to every human interaction, and when a child faces challenges with language it can be devastating to...
View ArticleHow to Survive the Workplace
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Rudy Simone found that the biggest challenge in the workplace was spending day after day with the same people. Frustrations...
View ArticleGet Your Child Singing – It’s Therapeutic
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Music is therapeutic – so much so that many have chosen professions in music therapy and many receive music therapy as a The post...
View ArticleHottest Reads in 2015
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights 10) Stuck Stubborn and Always Right? Changing Patterns of Rigid Thinking by Kimberly S. Williams, Psy.D. Bobby screams if daddy...
View ArticleSolutions for Struggling Writers
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Tomorrow is National Handwriting Day. It’s an unofficial day that was established by the Writing Instrument Manufacturers...
View ArticleBullying – Resources to Create Change
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Bullying – an unfortunate and all too real topic for many children with and without various isms. Consider the statistics – “as The...
View ArticleTooth Brushing for the Orally Defensive
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Each February, we celebrate National Children’s Dental Health Month at Special-Ism with a focus on isms such as tooth brushing for...
View ArticleThe Recorder: Chock Full of Therapeutic Benefits
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Are you looking to try something fun and different with your child? Something that offers a hidden therapeutic benefit? Consider...
View ArticleEnhance Speech Therapy with a Recorder
Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights In The Recorder: Chock Full of Therapeutic Benefits, Developmental Musician, Orly Zalel provided professional insight on the...
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