Tag Archives: sensory processing disorder

Featured Parent – Brandi

We have a new Featured Parent to introduce you to! Fun and Function: Who are you and your kids? Brandi Fought: I’m Brandi Fought, and my kids are Joshua Mattew, 26 months, and Lillian Autumn, 21 months. FF: What is the nature of their special needs? BF: Matthew was born missing two parts of his

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How to Look Like a Rockstar Kid

Protecting our kids’ precious hearing is serious stuff. Providing our kids with noise reduction at high volume activities is important. Providing our kids that need sensory reduction is priceless. Check out this article in the New York Times… Health Want a Better Listener? Protect Those Ears By JOYCE COHEN Published: March 2, 2010 Noise that

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10 Tips To Ease Summer Travels With Children Who Have Special Needs

The chaos of packing, airport crowds and security, lengthy car rides and yes, even overexposure to family and friends is enough to erode any summer traveler’s free spirit. Add traveling with children into the equation, especially when special needs are involved, and some parents might wish they could just stay home. But a few preparations

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By Kids Only Needs You!Exciting Giveaway Opportunity!

Our new website By Kids Only lets kids have a say about what their clothing should look like. With parental supervision, kids can share their design ideas with friends and family and solicit votes. We are super excited to create the first seamless, tagless therapeutic clothing line designed by kids but need as many entries

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About Evil Coats and Itchy Socks

The evil coat is very bad. It holds on to 7 year old David all the time and makes him so hot. Now this is the bad part. You have to wait until you are at least eighteen to be on your own to go to Antarctica. Even when it is boiling outside. So this is the story of the evil coat:

Help Me Calm Down!

Kids with sensory processing disorder often experience anxiety. They are overwhelmed by all the transitions and unpredictable events taking place in their daily lives, but often cannot pinpoint the source of their discomfort. They might become irritable and appear to be irrational. Tantrums often become a modus operandi to attract human attention to their needs.

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