Holiday Crafts and Ideas
Scary Skeleton Halloween Wheelchair Costume
Looking for a fun and SPOOKY Halloween costume idea for your child's wheelchair? This year Ivan will be a skeleton in a graveyard!
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Strengthening Your Parenting Partnership During Pediatric Illness
Raising a child with significant special or medical needs is challenging. Have you stopped to think about how that challenge is effecting your relationship with your spouse or partner?
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Am I Failing My Child? Managing Guilt as a Special Needs Parent
All parents feel guilt, but for parents of special needs kids, those feelings of guilt can be multiplied by a thousand.
Potty Training, Visual Impairment
8 Tips for Surviving Toilet Training in Public Bathrooms with Your Blind Child
Toilet training a child with special needs is difficult enough... have you tackled public bathrooms yet?
Math and Science
7 Accessible Science Rock Activities
Even though rocks are everywhere, if you're blind and never stop to pick up a rock, you might miss them! And you could be missing out on so much that...
Feeding and Eating, Fine and Gross Motor, Product Reviews
EazyHold: Grip Assist Strap
EazyHold is a simple grip assist strap that easily attaches to objects enabling kids with limited grip strength to accomplish daily living skills.
Play
What’s Inside? Make Your Own Hidden Shape Puzzle
I love games that that don't require any vision to play. This is an easy DIY puzzle that anyone can play by identifying a hidden shape by feel and sound!
Special Needs
Why You Should Hire a Special Needs Parent
Are you good at juggling multiple projects? Do you adapt well to change? You may be a special needs parent!
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Is this as Good as it Gets?
Maybe things are good now, but you know they will just get harder as your child grows up. Disability doesn't get easier as kids get older! Are these days your...
Visual Impairment
What Does it Mean to be Blind?
How can you explain blindness to your child when you are sighted? And how can you explain sight to a child who has never seen?
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What would you buy for your special needs child if money wasn’t an issue?
Sometimes it's fun to live in fantasy land and imagine what we would give our kids if money were no object. What if you had a million dollars? What would...
Giveaways
Audio Described Comic Books Giveaway!
Enter to win a free download of an audio described comic book from Comics Empower. You'll receive issue #1 of Aurora, a comic book with a blind hero! Giveaway ends...
Play, Visual Impairment
Summer Activities for Kids who are Blind
Looking for summer tips and advice to help you keep your blind child active during the break? Join our summer blog party to get advice from parents just like you!
Visual Impairment
The Day I Redefined Perfection as the Mother of a Blind Child
How can your baby be perfect if he can't see? Obviously there is something really wrong with his eyes, and isn't perfect the absence of wrong?
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Why a supportive community is so important for special needs kids!
Ivan wanted to join in the inflated obstacle course, but can a child with low muscle tone make it to the end of the course?