Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights
This post was previously titled “S-O-S Best of the Best, Edition 5: $1,100 Giveaway Bonanza!” The giveaway has ended, but there are still many wonderful book (and product) reviews below. Please take a look! ~Danette In honor of Autism Awareness Month and in honor of ALL invisible special needs, such as ADHD, SPD, and mental [...]
Don’t turn away from this review just because of the word “dyspraxia.” First, what is dyspraxia? Geoff Platt, author of Beating Dyspraxia With a Hop, Skip and a Jump: A Simple Exercise Program for Home and School lists some of the primary problems of dyspraxia to include low muscle tone; easily fatigued muscles; poor coordination, [...]
“Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.” This is how David Laing Dawson, M.D., opens up his new book, . Is this a quote from a parent, a teacher, a child expert? No, it is Socrates and demonstrates that parents have had troubles with their teens for [...]
[fbshare]Back in August, Vicki Hill wrote a guest blog where she revealed how her son with Asperger’s Syndrome, schizoaffective disorder, Tourette Syndrome and epilepsy led her on an unplanned journey. Her story inspired me to start a new series called “When One Door Closes, Another Door Opens,” where people reveal how their paths have changed [...]
[fbshare]Earlier in the week I looked at play skills in children less than a year old. Play is critical for a child as it helps the development of many skills, such as fine and gross motor skills, cognitive and language skills, and social and emotional skills. Play helps a child to learn and generalize these [...]
[fbshare]This guest post was written by Vicki Hill, a co-founder of the Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation and chief financial officer of nonPareil Institute. She is also the mother of two children, one with Asperger Syndrome, schizoaffective disorder, Tourette Syndrome and epilepsy. She can be reached at Vicki@npitx.org.
[fbshare]I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Yvonne N Pierre on her show on BlogTalkRadio. I shared my early experiences with adopting my daughter with special needs and what inspired me to found S-O-S Research. Through this interview and previous conversations and emails, I have been fortunate to get a glimpse into Yvonne Pierre. [...]
