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Gold Medal Moments – Get Your Child Involved with Special Olympics

Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights July was an exciting month in Southern California since Los Angeles hosted the Special Olympics World Game welcoming 6500 athletes...

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10 Strategies to Safeguard Your Wandering Child for Back-To-School

Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Watching the news, I have noticed a very dangerous trend among the autism community – precarious situations or even death due to...

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5 Tips to Help an Anxious Child Play their Favorite Sport

Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Nine-year-old Billy stood watching his town’s hockey team from the side-lines. Excitedly, he cheered on his friend Callum who was...

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Kids Can’t Work Together? Separate Them

Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights All around the world, getting the kids ready for school is arguably the toughest daily chore for parents of school aged kids. The...

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Sensory Tips for a Happy Halloween

Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Itchy costumes, greasy face paint, strangers in masks, constant social interactions, scary music and black lights on porches…...

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Observe Veteran’s Day with 10 Sensory Ideas

Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Today is Veteran’s Day and we have ten sensory friendly activities to get you started in the celebration.  As I don my The post...

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Sensory Strategies for Holiday Dinners

Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights The word Holiday alone brings up a wide variety of emotions. For some, feelings of joy, cheer, peace, and relaxation fill their The...

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Thanksgiving and Isms? 5 Last Minute Tips

Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Happy Thanksgiving! Or is it? As usual, the holiday season is coming upon us very fast.  With the holiday rush comes extra The post...

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Celebrate Holidays with Isms When Only a Hippo Will Do

Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights In 1953, a 10-year-old named Gayla Peevy, sang the song “I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas“.  It became quite popular.  Many,...

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Tips for Successful Travel with Your Sensitive Child

Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights In Traveling with a Sensory Seeking Child we explored strategies to support your child on vacation if he or she is a The post Tips...

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Plastic Easter Eggs – Loads of Sensory Input

Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Spring is right around the corner and with it may come an extra dose of sensory challenges.   For some children, seasonal changes...

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A Weighted Blanket: A Dream Come True

Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights On Amanda’s porch sat a heavy brown box full of what she would soon discover was worth more than its weight in The post A Weighted...

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Calm Your Child’s Brain to Foster Healthy Sleep

Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Sleep, or lack there of, is a common complaint for many parents of children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD).  Since the day...

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Dye Your Easter Eggs the Natural Way

Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights A hit back in 2009, we are resurrecting this post to support parents seeking to dye their Easter eggs the natural way. The post Dye...

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Five Egg-citing Ideas for an Egg-ceptional Easter

Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Spring has sprung and soon the “egg”-citement of Easter activities will be all around us. However, sometimes families who have...

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Generate Acceptance on Autism Awareness Day

Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Going on eight years ago, Special-Ism began as a small personal blog entitled, Our Journey Thru Autism. About five years ago, the...

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Summer Camp: Match to Your Child’s Temperament

Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Every spring parents ask us to recommend a summer camp that would be appropriate for their son or daughter.  Most parents are The...

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Discover How to Become More Effective Parents

Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights As new parents, we mostly start out with a fairly positive parenting style. Everybody knows that babies cry a lot, so we’re The...

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10 Ways to Curb the Runner

Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights My son, who has been unofficially diagnosed with Sensory Processing Disorder and officially diagnosed with ADHD, is a runner.  At...

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Raise Safety Awareness in Your Community

Special-ism - Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights Years ago, at a board meeting of the California State Council for Developmental Disabilities, I was introduced to an organization...

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