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...
View Article10 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...
View Article5 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...
View ArticleKids 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...
View ArticleSensory 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…...
View ArticleObserve 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...
View ArticleSensory 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...
View ArticleThanksgiving 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...
View ArticleCelebrate 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,...
View ArticleTips 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...
View ArticlePlastic 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleCalm 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...
View ArticleDye 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...
View ArticleFive 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...
View ArticleGenerate 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...
View ArticleSummer 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...
View ArticleDiscover 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...
View Article10 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...
View ArticleRaise 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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