This was our best special needs family vacation yet—proof that flexibility, preparation, and tiny wins can add up to big confidence. If your family is planning a special needs vacation, these ideas may help. Just before I sat down to write this blog, I was on the phone with two of the people who are […]
SPD: Know the Signs, Characteristics, & How to Get Help
TalkTools instructor Monica Purdy, MA, CCC-SLP & mom of three, nurse and author Michele Gianetti, RN have recently been published in Parenting Special Needs Magazine in the July/August 2017 edition. “SPD: Know The Signs, Characteristics & How To Get Help” is available for free through the online magazine. The article is valuable for parents of children with Sensory Processing Disorder, providing them with a downloadable […]
TALKTOOLS LIVE WEBINARS 2.0: SHORTER, INNOVATIVE, RELEVANT
We are excited to present TalkTools live webinar offering 2.0! We introduced speech & feeding live webinars in May 2017, starting with subjects like Oral Placement Therapy, Feeding, Autism and Apraxia, reflecting TalkTools most popular courses in other Continuing Education options (live workshops and self study). We now have new courses that are offered exclusively as live webinars, in a […]
How Music Therapy Became our Next Best Step
For those who have been following our story on this site, you know that Elizabeth has struggled with speech and language throughout her life due to her disorders of Dyspraxia and Sensory Processing Disorder. And because of this, we have had some form of speech therapy throughout most of her life. I say a form […]
Time For A Mid-Year Evaluation
It is officially the middle of the school year. Okay, not officially-officially but to me it is. I find myself looking at the middle of January and realizing that fact and think WOW, that time already. It is after this thought that I know it is time do my mid year check. By this, I mean, I take […]
Some of the Best Presents Cannot Be Put in a Box
“That will be five dollars to get into the game.” Weird how those ten words can make me think. Okay, perhaps you might need a bit of background information here. I heard those words as I entered my ten-year-old son’s basketball game this past Saturday. I had not heard those words since last year’s basketball […]
How to Plan After-School Activities for Your Special Needs Child (and their friends!)
You know the feeling of the first few weeks of a new school year. There is the shopping for backpacks and school supplies. Clothing and shoes and if you are like my son, a great number of very specific shirts. Even if your child is in a preschool setting, there are still so many things […]
Middle School Awaits
It is funny but just as soon as you get used to something, that something changes. I am sure everyone can sympathize with that, right? Well, this is how I was feeling about Elizabeth’s new school year, her last year in elementary school. I had managed to figure out a few things: How […]
2 YEARS OLD
As a parent, there is one side of your brain that knows the truth in a situation and there is the other half that can rationalize and adjust reality to fit the need or situation. We all know as parents that wonderful tug-of-war on the brain that we have all felt. Like when your child […]