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Book Review: Toby, the Pet Therapy Dog, and His Hospital Friends
Have you been searching for a children’s picture book to help your child or students learn how to be kind to others? Charmaine Hammond and illustrator, Rose Anne Prevec, have teamed up to write a wonderful chil… -
Book Review: You Are a Social Detective: Explaining Social Thinking to Kids
You Are a Social Detective: Explaining Social Thinking to Kids written by Michelle Garcia Winner and Pamela Crooke, and illustrated by Kelly Knopp is to be enjoyed by all the young Social Detectives who might have Schoo… -
Book Review: Active Imagination Activity Book
Review by Lorna d'Entremont Looking for the perfect gift for special needs parents? Know that overwhelmed parents cannot deal with more preparation, equipment, or time consuming reading of how-to books? Active Imaginat… -
Special Needs Parents: Isolation, Grief, Guilt, and Fear
All special needs parents suffer from grief. Whatever “Normal” is, it is no small thing to lose. The grief is not a linear process. Some days and some years it will be better, some will be worse. Expect to… -
Book Review: Special Diets for Special Kids
What on earth can help my autistic child? We are at our wits end and think we have exhausted all avenues to help our child with autism. Surely with so many children diagnosed with ASD someone should have found a way to… -
Sense of Well-being
Parents of children with Sensory Processing Disorder ( SPD) know very well that besides sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell there are other senses many forget. There are 8 different senses when these last three are a… -
Special Needs Kids and Successful Road Trips
Parents of special needs children must always work harder than most parents even for the simplest things. A road trip, which is fun for most families, is a nightmare to special needs families. How can a special needs fa… -
Water Safety Skills: A Parent’s Responsibility
A summer family activity often means swimming at a pool, lake, river or beach. Regardless of the location, the same water safety rules apply. Many things that happen to our children are beyond our control but being… -
Transition to School in the Spring
Are your summer months marred by a child’s anxious questions about his next school term? Is the first day of school marked by tears and tantrums? Is the Fall term at school a failure due to stomach aches and heada… -
Book Review: The Child with Autism at Home & in the Community by Kathy Labosh and LaNita Miller
Kathy Labosh tells us in her preface of The Child with Autism at Home & in the Community that she wrote this go-to guide for families because a particular child may have the symptoms of Autism, but the entire family…
About LornadEnt
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- Name: Lorna
- About Me: Hi, my name is Lorna d'Entremont and I am a retired teacher with 30 years experience in elementary schools. I have a Special Needs blog, http://www.kidcompanions.com/blog for parents and anyone who works with Special needs children. My daughter and I are co-owners of the sensory tool line "Kid Companions Chewelry ~ www.kidcompanions.com Our product gives parents peace of mind and as a mother and grand-mother of special needs children, I blog about issues that will also bring them peace of mind, point them to resources and inform them of new research, studies and books. We have a Special Needs Book Review site: http://www.specialneedsbookreview.com/
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