Where Advocacy, Special Needs Parenting, & Life Collide
Free or Low-cost Autism Resource – NAA’s Big Red Safety Box
We received one of these Big Red Safety boxes last year from the National Autism Association and it was a blessing to have the additional resources to help make our house safer. While we have three boys with autism, Logan has been known to wander and escape (thankfully not as often now), so it’s a real worry of ours.
I encourage any special needs family to consider ordering one of these boxes if they have wandering or other safety concerns in their autistic child. If you don’t have a child with autism, would you consider tweeting out a promotional message for the NAA’s Big Red Safety Box program? Here, I’ll make it easy for you:
Special Needs Kids Win the World! 29 Great Bike Giveaway Winners!
Support and Encourage these Kids with Awesomeness!
Just wanted to pass along this great announcement from the Friendship Circle’s Great Bike Giveaway – we can congratulate 29 amazing, awesome, phenomenal special needs kids! They win the world by winning their very own adaptive bike as part of The Great Bike Giveaway!
It is so important to keep these kinds of events in focus, because participating in them is such an easy way to support the entire special needs community, and specifically these kids with awesomeness and their families.
Our Birth Story and the Story of Hope
Our Birth Story is not for the Weak of Heart, but its full of Hope
And yet, in a world where over 1 million babies die on the very day they enter this world, I know we’re lucky in ways others might find hard to understand.
After all, most people don’t consider it lucky to find out every one of your children is born with a rare disorder, that one is completely blind, that another had a brain bleed … it most assuredly doesn’t seem like luck – but we were blessed. Because our children made it. They lived
Awesome Adaptive Bike Giveaway for Children with Special Needs
Adaptive Bikes for a Child with Special Needs – How Awesome is That?
There are few things more amazing than the freedom of riding your own bike for the first time, but for many children with special needs, that won’t easily happen without an adaptive bike. The Great Bike Giveaway will help children with special needs by helping provide special adaptive bikes made JUST for these kids and their awesomely special needs.
Not only is Friendship Circle an amazing resource for special needs families, they lead the pack when it comes to caring about children and adults with special needs. I encourage you to not only participate in this uniquely awesome giveaway, nomination and voting process, but check out their site as well!
Supplements for Your Child with Special Needs
Supplements: When Every Little Bit Counts & You Want a Little Bit More
Every little bit counts. That’s a lesson that having children taught me—having a child with special needs, however, made me realize how much of a difference those “little bits” can make. There is nothing that will keep my son, who has cerebral palsy, from having more health issues that my other kids, or keep me from worrying about if he’s getting the proper nutrition. But making sure I give him the right supplements can really work wonders.
I started giving my son supplements after hearing from a blogger friend who had given her CP child certain vitamin and minerals and had seen improvement in both his spasticity and muscle control. At first, I didn’t believe it—an inexpensive, easily attainable way to improve my child’s muscle and skeletal strength? It couldn’t be true.… Continue Reading