How do you choose which foods you want to eat and which you prefer to not even try? For me, appearance is key. I would be much less likely to eat blue-tinted mashed potatoes than creamy white ones with a square of melting butter in the center. Ashley, like many children with sensory impairments, uses…
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Gearing Up For Next (School) Year
As someone who works in education, these next few weeks are the time that is very bittersweet. We’re glad to see the year come to a close, but we are sad because we will miss the children that we have spent quite a bit of time with. While we will see many of them return…
Special Exposure Wednesday.
Malachy’s favourite pastime at the moment is riding his scooter on our weekend walks. Share your special moments with us at Special Exposure Wednesday. We’d love to see your photos! Please remember your comment love at each link you visit. Also blogging at Three Ring Circus
Photographing Children [with Special Needs] ~ Preface
Our column, Photographing Children [with special needs], is suppose to begin May 26. Let’s call this post the preface. Do you remember that as a child playing was your life? In the mind of a child nothing is more important than play and having fun. Remember that. It will serve you well when photographing children…
Try This Tuesday #44: Student Orientation
Welcome to this week’s Try This Tuesday. For details on how to participate, please check out the welcome post. I know it’s almost summer, but if you’re in the middle of preparing an IEP like I am, you are already thinking about back to school time and how your child will adjust to a new…
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…
Blog Review
Hi de ho there! “Maddy” here, an interloper. I’ve popped over from “home” to attempt another review at 5 Minutes for Special Needs Moms. I feel it’s only fair to warn you that I am feeling particularly vicious this weekend, must be something to do with the 94 degree heat that we are currently experiencing…
How to Create Great Social Stories
Cindy Golden www.omacconsulting.blogspot.com Don’t you just LOVE social stories? They are wonderful ways of teaching basic social skills to children with special needs. They are really easy to create using small photo albums and photos of the child but have you ever thought about creating one from the wonderful books you find…
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…
A Friend for Matthew
The day before Matthew’s first day of high school, I pushed open the door to Joe’s Barbershop, the intense August heat on my back. Matthew trailed behind me, a big expectant smile on his face. He went straight for the lollipops on the counter, the ones you are supposed to get after the haircut. Trips…