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| 10 Accessible and Sensory-Friendly Halloween Ideas for Kids who are Blind or Visually Impaired | Although originally designed for children with visual impairments, this resource offers activities that all children would find enjoyable! | Website |
| 10 Alternatives to Restraining a Child with Special Needs | The purpose of restraining is to keep something from continuing to take place, and is often a last resort. Here are 10 different strategies that parents and caregivers can try to minimize and avoid physical restraining their children, that may help prevent the need for it at all | Website |
| 10 Halloween Safety Tips for Children with Special Needs | Check out these safety tips from the National Lekotek Center for all children to ensure a safe and enjoyable Halloween! | Document |
| 12 Easy Ways to Help Burn Energy and Calm Children of All Abilities | “Many parents are now working from home and trying to juggle distance learning for their children.” Fraser has come up with some ideas to help. | Website |
| 22 Respectful Ways to Respond when Someone Uses the "R" Word | How many of us have been in a conversation with someone--a friend or coworker, or perhaps a new acquaintance--and he or she casually uses the R-word in a derogatory way? It can be a difficult situation to navigate, especially with someone you're not totally comfortable with. What's the best way to express how problematic and hurtful that word can be? We teamed up with Spread the Word to End the Word to ask our Facebook communities how they respond (respectfully) when it happens. These are just some of the great suggestions we received. | Document |
| 8 Multicultural Children's Books Featuring Blind Children | Inspired by the UK initiative called Make a Noise in Libraries, which aims to make libraries more accessible and inclusive for visually impaired readers, this blog's author began putting together this list of multicultural children's books featuring blind children. | Website |
| 8 Ways you can Dress your Child for Sensory Friendly Success | Whether your school has a dress code or you get to select your own clothes, dressing in a sensory smart way can be the difference between comfort and misery or attention and distraction. Let's see how your kids can dress for school success! | Document |
| A Child Who Flies “Under the Radar”--When a Diagnosis Isn’t Made: Part Three | In this podcast, we will continue the last conversation by looking at 4-5 year olds. It is easy at times to see a child’s behavior outside of the context of their age and stage. When we look again at what we are hoping to teach children in a larger sense, we can begin to appreciate some of those challenging behaviors as their way at reaching important milestones! | Podcast |
| A Guide to Developmental Milestones, Red Flags, Early Intervention and Inclusion | This video, produced for the Somali community, addresses developmental milestones for children and red flags for developmental delays as well as covering the topics of early identification and early intervention. This video also contains interviews with Somali parents of children who have special needs and an interview with a Somali physician. | Website |
| A to Z Teacher Stuff | A to Z Teacher Stuff is a teacher-created site designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. Find lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials, and eBooks, printable worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more. This website also includes strategies to help support children with ADHD in the classroom environment. | Website |
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