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Cruise Tips for Autistic Families

For anyone considering or already booked on a cruise , here are a few useful tips and pointers to help you get the most out of your cruise experience. Before You Board Before you board, be sure to get travel insuranc…
Airlines and Autism: Anxiety with Flying

I received an message on my Facebook today from a most distraught mother whose family was kicked off an airplane when her autistic daughter wasn't able to fasten her seat belt because of her anxiety with flying. The 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…
Frenquent Flyer Mick

Yo Mick here, the canine with the boy on the end of the leash.
Having a Special Needs Child and Living Abroad

So what I didn’t tell you when I wrote my letter to editors last week, was that it wasn’t the first time I’d tried to get magazines to address their lack of coverage of special needs issues. From t…
Travels with Autism - Time to Prepare!

At this time of year you might be lucky enough to be planning a holiday. And some of you, thanks to a negative experience in the past might be having trepidations - I have some advice that might make it easier and m…
Princess Tiana's magical autism moment

Ever experienced a 'down' day when you've felt your work is unnoticed and under appreciated? Well, I had one of those yesterday while stressing over the writing of an article titled, "The benefits of Autistic Travel…
Globetrotting with Autism

"An old Romanian joke speaks of a dad sitting on a bench in the park with a unrelentingly screaming baby in his arms whispering, ‘Ferdinand be calm, Ferdinand be calm’. A well-meaning bystander who witness…
Planning for cruising with allergies

One of my readers contacted me this week asking for my tips when traveling with an allergic child on a gluten free casein free diet. As spring break and summer are fast approaching here are some tips to use for your n…
Preventing Travel Meltdowns

Meltdowns are no fun to handle at any age, but can be downright embarrassing to the parents of older autistic travelers. When they occur in daily life, most parents are taught by professionals not to 'cave in' to…