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COVID-19 | The Great Equalizer for the Special Needs Community
In a recent Circle of Care Facebook Live session, special guest and disability...
New Online Calculator Helps Parents Gauge How Much to Leave for a Child with Special Needs
Among the challenges of raising a child with special needs is figuring out how...
Caring for the Caregiver | Special Needs Parents Feeling Burnt Out During COVID-19
While all active parents are caregivers in some sense of the word, parents of...
Music Therapy: A Continuum of Supports
Author: Meredith R. Pizzi, MPA, MT-BC Founder and Executive Director, Roman...
10 Tips for Using Music to Get Communication Moving!
Author: El Robertson | Pediatric Speech and Language Therapist BSc Before they...
Life After Lockdown | The Back-to-School Checklist for Children with Special Needs
Author: Annette Hines, Founder of Special Needs Companies When my daughter...
Homeschooling Versus Distance Learning for Children with Special Needs
Back when my children were little, homeschooling was still a bit more radical...
Advocate For Your Special Needs Student’s Rights to Education During COVID-19
In the Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District case of March 2017, the...
Celebrating Autistic Pride
The month of June is dedicated to showing love to people who have been...
$5,000 Matching Donation to Perkins School for the Blind
Special Needs Companies founder Annette Hines is matching every donation (up...
Happy Birthday, Elizabeth
On May 31, 1996, a beautiful baby girl named Elizabeth was born. Her mother,...
Remembering Your Child During the Holidays
Let’s just be honest my friends, this is not an easy time when you’ve lost a...
A Special Needs Teenager’s Transition to Adulthood: 4 Things to Consider
For youth with disabilities, there are many things to consider. An...
How to Provide Support to the Sibling of a Special Needs Child
An Excerpt from Annette Hines’ book, Butterflies and Second Chances: A Mom’s...
I Am a Mom Without a Country
After my daughter Elizabeth passed away from mitochondrial disease in November...
The Year of No Secrets
Last week as I sat in my Weight Watchers meeting listening to everybody talk...
And so it begins…
As I think about my book coming out into the world, and I start talking with people about it, the question most people ask me is: What am I hoping to accomplish with this book? SO that shouldn’t be hard right?! Arggh!But it is so hard.