Win a hardcover copy of “The Boy in the Moon” by Ian Brown
We’re having a giveaway of one Hardcover Copy of “The Boy in the Moon” Last week I reviewed this really incredible book by Ian Brown, “The Boy in the Moon”. I enjoyed it so much I thought I’d share it with one lucky reader! There are several ways to enter: 1. “Like” this giveaway …
Disability and Special Needs News for June 12, 2011
Disability and Special Needs News for June 11, 2011 …grab a cup of coffee Every Sunday I hope to offer you my mini version of the “Sunday paper” with articles from the past week or two, relevant or uplifting (or both), on various issues within the disability and special needs community. The Special Parent …
#Follow Friday – Apps 4 Children with Special Needs (A4CWSN)
A4CWSN shows you the best apps for our kids and how they work Apps 4 Children with Special Needs (A4CWSN) is a site that has recently caught my attention in an effort to work on some things with Katherine and Donovan during summer vacation. I wanted to get some apps to put on my iPad …
Electronic Record Keeping and Dropbox
Dropbox is what they call “cloud” storage. Before Medefile started with educational records, I had boxes full of records. Medical records, legal records, school records, tax records. I mourned the poor trees. But even worse than mourning the trees, I mourned any storage space I had in my home. If there was an open nook or …
Disability and Special Needs News June 5, 2011
Disability and Special Needs News for June 5, 2011 …grab a cup of coffee Every Sunday I hope to offer you my mini version of the “Sunday paper” with articles from the past week or two, relevant or uplifting (or both), on various issues within the disability and special needs community. The Special Parent …
The Boy in the Moon by Ian Brown: The Special Parent Book Review
The Boy in the Moon by Ian Brown I started The Boy in the Moon at what I believed was a disadvantage. I read the NY Times review before I did. I’m glad I didn’t let it disuade me. It’s certainly not that the review was “bad”. Quite the contrary, the overall was very positive. …
Unique Child Study by Columbia University wants YOU
Researchers at Columbia University’s Paul F. Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences studying how children who are unique in some way are identified and developed. They are currently collecting stories from parents with children who have been identified as gifted, children who have unique artistic, scientific, or physical abilities, children on the autism spectrum, and …
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