Special Parents Confidential 41 Understanding Learning Disorders Part 1
Understanding Learning Disorders Part 1. ADD. ADHD. Dyslexia. Dysgraphia. Dyscalculia. Understanding learning disorders might be one of the most difficult challenges any parent can face. We’ve known...
View ArticleSpecial Parents Confidential 42 Understanding Learning Disorders Part 2
Understanding Learning Disorders Part 2. ADD. ADHD. Dyslexia. Dysgraphia. Dyscalculia. Understanding learning disorders might be one of the most difficult challenges any parent can face. We’ve known...
View ArticleSpecial Parents Confidential 43 Special Education Rights
Special Education Rights. For many parents of special needs kids, special education rights continue to be the main cause of concern and worry. Are our kids being given the right accommodations in...
View ArticleSpecial Parents Confidential 44 Alix Generous
Alix Generous. In 2015, a young woman named Alix Generous gave a Ted Talk speech that has subsequently had over 14 million views. The speech was entitled, “How I learned to communicate my inner life...
View ArticleSpecial Parents Confidential 45 Soledad O’Brien
Soledad O’Brien Interview. A few months ago, while in a doctor’s office for a checkup, reading the usual magazines, my wife happened to see an article about Soledad O’Brien. She talked about her son...
View ArticleSpecial Parents Confidential 46 Sensory Processing Disorder
Sensory Processing Disorder. Virtually everyone has heard of sensory overload, and sensory issues. People who have problems with loud noises, large crowded areas, tastes, textures, strong smells,...
View ArticleSpecial Parents Confidential 47 Nurtured Heart Approach
Nurtured Heart Approach. What is the Nurtured Heart Approach and how can it help? For many kids with special needs the ability to concentrate, even to sit still in class, is challenging. We’ve given...
View ArticleSpecial Parents Confidential 48 Colds And The Flu
Colds And The Flu. It seems like every year the season for colds and the flu gets longer. Whether you’re a parent of a special needs child or not, our kids are coming down with colds and the flu all...
View ArticleSpecial Parents Confidential 49 Parenting Concerns
Parenting Concerns. Having a special needs child always causes tremendous parenting concerns and a lot of work. Many moments can be incredible, exhilarating, and full of amazing wonder. But it can also...
View ArticleSpecial Parents Confidential 50 ADHD Nation Alan Schwarz
ADHD Nation Author Alan Schwarz. ADHD Nation, Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the making of an American Epidemic, is a new book by New York Times correspondent Alan Schwarz, that is putting a lot of...
View ArticleRevisiting Episode 21 Special Parents Confidential IEP And The Law
Revisiting Episode 21 Special Parents Confidential IEP And The Law. It’s IEP Season and we are Revisiting Episode 21 Special Parents Confidential IEPS And The Law. Individualized Education Plans. IEPs...
View ArticleRevisiting Special Parents Confidential Episode 17 When Schools Say ‘No’.
Revisiting Episode 17 When Schools Say ‘No’. It’s IEP Season and we’re revisiting past episodes on the Individualized Education Plan. Find out what you can do when schools say ‘no’. Special Parents...
View ArticleRevisiting Special Parents Confidential Episode 10 Special Education
Revisiting Special Parents Confidential Episode 10 Special Education. It’s IEP Season, and we’re revisiting some of our older episodes that have information that will help you with the process. In this...
View ArticleRevisiting Special Parents Confidential Episode 06 Special Education Advocacy
Revisiting Special Parents Confidential Episode 06 Special Education Advocacy. It’s IEP Season and we’re revisiting older episodes that offered information to help with the IEP process. Today we’re...
View ArticleEarly Intervention – Revisiting Special Parents Confidential Episode 25
Early Intervention – Revisiting Special Parents Confidential Episode 25. It’s IEP Season and we’re looking back on older episodes that deal with Individualized Education Plans. Early Intervention is...
View ArticleSpecial Parents Confidential 51 Michigan Alliance For Families
Michigan Alliance For Families. Find out how the Michigan Alliance For Families, and other similar organizations around the United States can help you negotiate special education services for free....
View ArticleSpecial Parents Confidential 52 Ponseti Method of Clubfoot Treatment
Ponseti Method of Clubfoot Treatment Clubfoot, or talipes equinovarus, is a treatable birth defect that affects approximately 150,000-200,000 children each year. When clubfoot occurs the foot is...
View ArticleSpecial Parents Confidential 53 be nice campaign.
be nice. A new program called the ‘be nice’ campaign has been started in West Michigan to help end bullying. One of the hardest issues to deal with for parents of special needs kids – as well as...
View ArticleSpecial Parents Confidential 54 Neurocore and the Education Secretary
Neurocore and the Education Secretary The new Eduction Secretary of the United States has caused some controversy in the past months since her appointment over her views on special education, and her...
View ArticleEducation Funding – Revisiting SPC Episode 27
Education Funding Every year it seems the news is full of stories with politicians calling either for cuts in education funding, or increases in education funding. This year, however, cuts were...
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