Resources (Children – Disabilities) « Children – Disabilities

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About Children with Special Needs

“A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.”   ≈ William Arthur Ward

• 5 Minutes for Special Needs (blog)
  Support, Insight, Inspiration
• Bloom (Parenting Kids with Disabilities)
  Determined to change what she believes is systemic discrimination against treating children with certain genetic conditions, Barb shares her daughter Annie’s story at health-care conferences and ethics talks, with medical and law students, in medical journals and through her work with Patients for Patient Safety Canada.
• Center on Technology and Disability – CTD Family Portal
  Start exploring the information you need to discover the assistive technology that’s right for your child. Here are a few highlighed resoruces, but you can also participate in our free webinars or browse our digital library for informational handouts, videos and more.
• Dance of Partnership
  Janice Fialka is a national trainer and advocate on issues related to disability.
• Exceptional Parent Magazine
  The family and professional site for the special needs community.
• Family Voices Indiana (blog)
  Family Voices of Indiana shares advocacy opportunities and updated information on issues that impact Indiana families of children with disabilities or special needs.
• How a group of moms created opportunities for their special kids (Chicago Parent – 9/16/15)  
• Interactive Planner for Caregivers
  Parents and caregivers can plan a child's daily routines, including meals, activities, and medications.  
• Mom on a Mission (Michele Westmaas blog)
  Thoughts and insights from a mom, wife, and disability advocate.
• Play Activities for Children with Disabilities (Your Therapy Source – 2/4/11)
  The Alliance for Technology Access has a wonderful, free publication that you can download entitled "We Can Play". This is a 20 page document loaded with fun, adaptable ideas for children with disabilities.
• Prenatal Partners for Life
  Support information & encouragement for carrying to term with an adverse prenatal diagnosis and support for raising your child with special needs after birth.
• Sensory Processing Disorder Resource Center
  A thorough explanation and a name for the behaviors and developmental concerns that exist – which seemed almost impossible to understand or cope with.
• Siblings With Disabilities
  How parents explain to their children the challenges a disabled sibling faces varies greatly but is most complex when a child's condition goes beyond a relatively obvious physical impairment.
• Special Needs Children Site (Bella Online)
  Valuable articles and info.
• Uniquely Gifted
  A collection of resources for families with gifted/special needs children and professionals who work with them.