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How to Tend to Special Needs Child on Thanksgiving

Raise your hand if you cannot believe we are one day away from Thanksgiving, the official unofficial beginning of the holiday season. I feel like I just shut my door at the end of Halloween and then … BAM, we are talking turkey, stuffing, days off and then … gulp … Christmas. I try to […]

May 11, 2018 administrator Elizabeth's Journey Comments (0) Details
Tags: CHILD WITH SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER, CHILD WITH SPD, CHILD WITH SPECIAL NEEDS, ELIZABETH'S MONTHLY UPDATES, FAMILY REUNIONHOLIDAY SEASON, HOLIDAY TIPS, MICHELE GIAN, PARENTING, PARENTING TIPS, SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER, SOCIAL SETTINGSOCIAL SKILLS, SPD, SPD TIPS, SPECIAL NEEDS, SPECIAL NEEDS ADVICE, SPECIAL NEEDS CHILD, SPECIAL NEEDS KIDSPECIAL NEEDS MELTDOWN, SPECIAL NEEDS MOM, SPECIAL NEEDS PARENT, SPECIAL NEEDS TEEN, TEEN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS, THANKSGIVING FOR CHILDREN, THANKSGIVING MEAL, THANKSGIVING TIPS, THANKSGIVINGTHANKSGIVING DINNER

Halloween Guide for Kids with Sensory Needs

This year for Halloween, Elizabeth is simply going to pass out the candy with me or perhaps with a friend by her side. She is not dressing up for the event, at least not at the time of this writing. This is not to say she won’t change her mind and end up dressed and passing out […]

October 26, 2017 administrator Elizabeth's Journey Comments (0) Details
Tags: HALLOWEEN, SENSORY NEEDS, SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER, SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER ADULTSENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER CHECKLIST, SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER GUIDE, SPD, SPD TIPS, SPECIAL NEEDS, TRICK OR TREAT

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 […]

February 20, 2017 administrator Elizabeth's Journey Comments (0) Details
Tags: AMTA, ARTICULATION, DYSPRAXIA, ELIZABETH, MICHELE GIANETTI, MUSIC AS THERAPY, MUSIC THERAPIST, MUSIC THERAPY, PLAYING MUSICSENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER, SINGING, SPD, SPD TIPS, SPECIAL NEEDS, SPECIAL NEEDS MOM, SPECIAL NEEDS PARENT, SPEECH THERAPYTEEN WITH SPD, TEEN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

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 […]

January 13, 2017 administrator Elizabeth's Journey Comments (0) Details
Tags: CHILD WITH SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER, CHILD WITH SPD, CHILD WITH SPECIAL NEEDS, IEP, IEP MEETING, MICHELE GIANETTI, PARENTINGPARENTING TIPS, SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER, SPD, SPD TIPS, SPECIAL NEEDS, SPECIAL NEEDS ADVICE, SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDSPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN, SPECIAL NEEDS KID, SPECIAL NEEDS MOM, SPECIAL NEEDS PARENT, SPECIAL NEEDS TEEN, TEEN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

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 […]

December 12, 2016 administrator Elizabeth's Journey Comments (0) Details
Tags: CHILD WITH SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER, CHILD WITH SPD, CHILD WITH SPECIAL NEEDS, CHRISTMAS, CHRISTMAS FOR SPECIAL NEEDSCHRISTMAS PRESENT, CHRISTMAS TIPS, FAMILY REUNION, HOLIDAY SEASON, HOLIDAY TIPS, HOLIDAYS, HOLIDAYS FOR SPECIAL NEEDSHOLIDAYS SEASON, MICHELE GIANETTI, PARENTING, PARENTING TIPS, SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER, SPD, SPD TIPS, SPECIAL NEEDS CHILD, SPECIAL NEEDS KID, SPECIAL NEEDS MOM, SPECIAL NEEDS PARENT, SPECIAL NEEDS TEENTEEN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS, SPECIAL NEEDSSPECIAL NEEDS ADVICE