Category Archives: Reviews

Try This Tuesday #46: G-Tube Meal Containers

This week, Lynn from Pedaling Backwards is sharing one of her many great tips on G-tubes. G-TUBE MEAL CONTAINERSby Lynn After years of trying many containers, I have found these work best: Daily Meal Storage Pyrex 11 cup rectangle (www.pyrex.com). VERY hard to break (haven’t broken one yet unlike every other container type I’ve tried),…

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Book Giveaway Winner!

The winner of the International Vascular Birthmark Awareness Day Book Giveaway is: Heidi from God’s Grace In Practice! Congratulations! We hope you enjoy this beautiful book, Buddy Booby’s Birthmark, by Evan Ducker, a little boy who followed his dream to write a children’s story to help others understand what it feels like to be different….

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Week Two: Around the Blogosphere Special Needs Style

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday…in my house this week, it meant endless auto racing viewing opportunities, if you were so inclined. Yea….I? Was not. So, instead I popped open the laptop for week 2 of Around the Blogosphere Special Needs Style. And lookie here…ask and ye shall receive, that fancy schmancy button we asked for last week,…

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Around the Blogosphere: Special Needs Edition

We are rolling out a brand new feature here at 5 Minutes For Special Needs! Welcome to Around the Blogosphere: Special Needs Edition (This space reserved for really cool ATB:SNE button. As soon as we get one made. ahem. Anybody want to make us one? ) This is the place to link up all the…

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We’re Not So Very Different…

I sat backstage tugging off her ballet slippers, coaxing her to help put crayons away amidst a giggling knot of pint-sized ballerinas. With the recital just days away, it was a relief to finally be done with the dress rehearsal and my thoughts wandered toward dinner and bedtime plans as I scrabbled after one last…

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Got Something To Say?

So. How ya been? Hmmm… La-dee-da-dee-dum… Well, this is kinda awkward, huh? What with you expecting to come here and find a brilliant, witty post and me still having one horrendous case of writer’s block and all. Seen any good movies lately? No? Me neither. Well, huh. This isn’t gettin’ any better as I type…

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And The Winners Are…..

I LOVE announcing winners! It totally makes my day! The One Step Ahead winner is: #5 Maddy! The FuzziBunz winner is: #35 Carey, from Dream Big! I want to thank everyone for entering. And I especially want to thank the Random Generator for choosing the winners. Cause if it were up to me I’d simply…

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Able Play Toys at One Step Ahead!

Psssst: Got Grandparents and friends who want to purchase just the right toy for your child? You are going to want them to read this review. Just a friendly heads up! Lake Bluff, IL – All kids love new, cool, fun toys, and that includes kids with disabilities. But it’s not always easy to find,…

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That Dapper Tuber

One of the tools Ashley uses during her speech therapy sessions is a Mr. Potato Head toy. With all his different, colorful body parts, the opportunities for both receptive and expressive language are many. However, Ashley had her own agenda in last week’s therapy session with Mr. Potato Head. Instead of putting Mr. P. together…

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A FuzziBunz Cloth Diaper Giveaway!

This contest is now closed! For the last few years Parker has been rocking it in cloth. Cloth diapers that is. With all of our medical expenses I went looking for ways to economize and started researching cloth diapers. Parker goes through a lot of diaper changes. It isn’t unusual for us to go through…

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