By:  Cindy Golden, www.omacconsulting.blogspot.com The most important thing in the world that you can do for your child with special needs is to teach them how to be independent. Regardless of how much disability affects their daily lives we, teachers and parents, should all find ways to teach them how to become as independent as is possible. We should…

Cindy Golden, OMAC Consulting www.omacconsulting.blogspot.com   This is the 3rd part in a series on Structuring the Home for Children with special needs.  The last post we focused on organizing a kitchen for an older child or one with fewer needs and this post will focus on children with more significant needs.    Our students…

By: Cindy Golden, www.omacconsulting.blogspot.com Research has shown us that children with special needs thrive in settings that are not only organized and predictable but also brimming with visual supports and visual schedules.   Children with special needs are typically accommodated with a great deal of structure in their school environments but what about the home?  We…