Special Needs
Find support for parents of children with special needs. Learn how to advocate for your child, raise funds for needed equipment and find helpful organizations.
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Assistive Technology
Self-Driving Car from Google
Google is creating a self-driving car that can go 25 mph and carry two people. It's currently in prototype testing but they hope to have it on the road this...
Support
The Relationship Between Parents and Professionals
Watch this webcast about building relationships between parents and the professionals who work with their children who are blind or visually impaired, with or without additional disabilities.
Assistive Technology, Orientation and Mobility
Verizon Creates Navigational Tools to Promote Independence for Blind Users
Being blind means giving up a lot of independence; this new technology from Verizon gives blind people real-time information about their environment, including colors, textures, nav cues, and more, using...
Play, Visual Impairment
Brazil’s Blind Soccer Team
With the World Cup happening, soccer fever is spreading. And if you think there’s no place out on the soccer pitch for a person who is blind, think again, because...
Autism, Behavior, Sleep
3 Tips for Choosing Pajamas for Kids with Sensory Processing Disorders
Is night time a nightmare? Here are 3 tips for choosing the best pajamas for kids with autism or sensory processing disorders (SPD).
Support, Visual Impairment
5 Steps to Overcoming Your Child’s Vision Loss
I had thought about calling this post, “My 6 year old child became blind now what?” When my daughter first started losing her vision, that's the book I was looking...
Assistive Technology, Math and Science
3D Printed Pictures of Space
Astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore are working on a project creating 3D images of photos taken by the Hubble Telescope for people who are visually impaired.
Schools for the Blind
The Children’s Center for the Visually Impaired
The Children's Center for the Visually Impaired in Kansas City, Missouri serves any infant to school-age child who is blind or visually impaired by providing “innovative and stimulating programs customized...
Schools for the Blind
Idaho School for the Deaf and Blind
Idaho School for the Blind provides supplemental educational services, early intervention/education, consultation and transition support to families and local school districts throughout Idaho.
Schools for the Blind
Illinois School for the Visually Impaired
Illinois School for the Visually Impaired serves as a statewide educational resource offering students with visual impairments quality educational services which will enable them to become personally productive and self-sufficient...
Schools for the Blind
The Governor Morehead School for the Blind
The Governor Morehead School for the Blind is located in Raleigh, North Carolina, and serves all of North Carolina's visually impaired needs.
Schools for the Blind
The Hadley School for the Blind
The Hadley School for the blind is known for offering distance education to anyone who wants or needs blindness education, including parents of blind children.
Schools for the Blind
Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind
Located on the island of O'ahu, the Hawai'i School for the Deaf and Blind provides an ASL bilingual-bicultural program to the islands’ deaf, blind and deafblind students
Schools for the Blind
Iowa Educational Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Iowa Educational Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired is located in Vinton, Iowa, and provides educational opportunities, resources and support services for Iowa students who are blind or visually...
Parenting, Special Needs
16 things that have helped me as the parent of a child with special medical needs
My son Jaxon was born with bilateral corneal clouding. We have been through a lot with this little man and I wrote a blog post about some of the things...