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Bean Bag Chairs Help Kids with ADD, ADHD and Autism

As the owner of AHH! Products (as in ahh…that bean bag is comfy), I have the constant pleasure of speaking to parents about how our bean bag chairs are adored by their kids worldwide. It’s all fun and game…
Autism: Year 10 in Review

2011 was a good year. Connor, now ten and a half years old, is becoming quite the accomplished young gentleman. He attended fifth grade in a general ed classroom without a para or teacher’s assistant. He completed…
Ten Things I Wish I had Known When My Son Was First Diagnosed with Autism

It’s been four years, nine months since a team of experts dropped the big bomb — our son likely had autism. It feels like an eternity. The news rattled our world, and sent us spiraling in to a dark place…
ADHD and ASD Parenting

MSNBC has run an article that basically says mothers get more stressed when their children have behavioural disorders. They focus on ADHD, but come on -- your child acts up and all's serene? Not likely, yeah duh. At l…
Staring and Unkind Words Can Hurt

It constantly amazes me at how the world as I know it, is unkind and not made for my special guy. While both of my guys struggle with their difficulties, Ashton just can't pass as "normal" like Holden can and does. Desp…
Letter and Labels

Everything has a label, we have ADHD, PDD, GDD, NT, PPD, HFA, AP, GD, EC, and OCD just to name a few. everything has something to signify the disorder, the type of parenting, a deviation from the norm. We put labels on…
Quiet Time

Things have been unusually quiet around here over the last few days. There have been no meltdowns and no rages. No huge messes to clean, no crises to control. We have had no sibling run-ins. Why we've been prod…
The Difference of One Year

Today marks the one year anniversary of our son attending a therapeutic day school. A year ago, we were an emotional wreck. Our dreams of having our son mainstreamed at our neighborhood school had ended. And with th…
ADHD and Food Dyes

Similar to the debate about whether child vaccines can cause autism is the debate about whether artificial food dyes can be a possible link to a host of childhood behavioral issues, such as ADHD. During my daughter's…
Time Management Tips for Parents of Special Needs Children

Hi, I am new to this site. I have a child with high functioning autism and many other diagnoses as well. Autism, undefined chromosome anomaly of 17q 12 partial duplication, ADHD,Chiai Malformation Type 1, amblyopia,…