special needs
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Tips to Manage Your Kids’ Behavior—Without Getting Kicked Out of the Mom Group
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In the adult world there’s a saying–“kids will be kids.” Unfortunately, you can’t always shrug off unruly behavior just because they’re kids. And you can’t always blame it on other people when your kid gets into trouble. Yet, it happens…
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Here’s How to Help Your Child Earn Independence
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Lately, there seems to be plenty of news articles about how schools are cutting back and making changes to help students and teachers. That’s great. Most every school that I know of needs some type of support anyway, so at…
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Getting Your Kid Help
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People who “walk the walk and talk the talk” understand the how difficult, and also, how wonderful it is to raise a child who has special needs. Over the years, these parents will interact with people, who are not raising…
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The Impact of Labeling Students With Special Needs
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The idea behind the word “stigma” leaves a painful scar–labels stick and eventually become a blurry mess. As kids get older all that “nice-nice treat others with respect” goes right out the window once those same students transition to middle…
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Winning Strategies for a Successful IEP Meeting
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Parents whose children have an IEP understand the dilemma of taking sides. Many parents are adamant about what they want for their child, yet fail to discuss the needs and wants of their opponent, albeit, the teachers. Of course not…it wouldn’t be a…