Entry #12 :
- my friend's son is autistic and they have used http://www.autismspeaks.org/ a lot to help them. they are involved with the walks in our area every year. if i happen to win this i would pass it on to them.
Help us with our Resources For Parents with Children with Special Needs!
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For nearly 15 years parents, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, and language therapists have been shopping at GummmyLump.com for toys to use in their practice! Over the past few months we have been working very hard to improve our Toys For Children with Special Needs section. Our final step is to expand and revamp our Resources for Parents of Children with Special Needs section.
We hope you'll help us by COMMENTING BELOW with the name of a book, website, or blog that you have found helpful for parents of children with special needs. Please give us the name of the resource and why you like it.
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Enter by leaving a comment on this post thru 8/31/10.
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Over the past few months we have been working very hard to improve our "Toys For Special Needs Children" section. We're proud to say that we've reworked that section, along with the help of Moms of Children with Special Needs, Occupational Therapists, Language Therapists, and Special Education Teachers.
See it here: Special Needs Toys
with these Subcategories:
Toys for Children with Autism
Toys for Children with Blindness
Toys for Children with Deafness
Toys for English Language Learners
Toys for Children with Emotional Disturbance
Toys for Gifted Children
Toys for Children with Hearing Impairment
Toys for Children with Learning Disabilities
Toys for Children with Intellectual Disabilities
Toys for Children with Orthopedic Impairment
Toys for Children with Speech & Language Impairment
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Toys for Children with Special Needs:
Our toys for children with special needs section was developed with your child's abilities and developmental goals in mind. Our safe and appropriate toys for children with special needs have been chosen because of their quality, play value, educational value, and contribution to learning goals. We have hundreds of special needs toys without the price that's often associated with sensory toys, specialty toy catalogs, and occupational therapy toys. Your child should enjoy his toys and learn from them whether you have a typically learning child or a child who has special needs.
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18 comments:
I have a daughter who has Down Syndrome, heart defects, and is hard of hearing and wears hearing aids. Some of the websites that have been very helpful to our family are http://www.aslpro.com/ , which offers an online American Sign Language distionary with video clips of the signs, http://www.downsyn.com/index.php, which is full of great information about Down Syndrome, http://www.ndss.org/, which is also info about Down Syndrome, http://www.childrensheartfoundation.org/publications/its-my-heart, which offers a free downloadable book all about heart defects and has a dictionary of common words used in the CHD community, and we were greatful to find the book Meet Annia by Heather J. Scharlau- Hollis to read to our older child and her friends to prepare them for our daughter with Down Syndrome.
Community Autism Resourses is a great resourse for parents and kids with Autism for Southeastern Massachusetts
http://www.community-autism-resources.com/
My daughter has Autism. Here is a list of a few resources that I use:
http://momcaboodle.com/blog1/autism-awareness/
My daughter was born 10 weeks early and medically fragile. She was trached and on a vent at home. By far, the most inclusive resource was Aarons' Tracheostomy website. The forum is a must for parents of children with trachs. I even wrote a paper about the supportive nature of the internet in my Info Sciences class in grad school. This website was one of main sources.
http://tracheostomy.com/
I found this book helpful:
The Premature Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Premature Baby by Robert Sear
I have a friend recently who had a premature baby and she received this book and it's helping her alot!
Thanks for the chance to win!
ajoebloe(at)gmail(dot)com
I have two daughters with Down syndrome and post lots of resources on my own blog all the time. http://www.myspecialks.com . I also recommend http://www.downsyn.com , and of course http://www.ndss.org and http://www.ndsccenter.org . Thanks for the opportunity for this great giveaway! If you're ever looking for someone to review your products, please let me know!
My youngest daughter is hard of hearing and one of the best books I have is "Facilitation Hearing and Listening in Young Children" by Carol Flexer.
I also highly recommend the Listen-Up website: http://listen-up.org
I have a 2 year old daughter with Down Syndrome and Hirschsprung's Disease. Some of the sites that I find helpful are
http://www.down-syndrome.org/
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/Down_Syndrome.cfm
http://downsyndrome.com/
All have valuable information for new parents. The last site is an awesome community for Down Syndrome families.
Please see if you can carry these! They have helped my autistic daughter immensely at school as they don't look like typical special needs equipment. Her teachers love them. http://www.chewelry.ca/
This is a website I use often for my son.
http://www.autismspeaks.org/
Both my kids have had developmental delays, and my son has apraxia of speech. I have ordered them many toys and products through Beyond Play (www.beyondplay.com). I've also ordered through your site (you have great prices on Melissa & Doug and other wooden toys). I also write about special needs toys and issues at my own blog (www.mymomshops.blogspot.com). It's great that you're asking for this kind of feedback- it is much appreciated by parents like us! I'll be tweeting this contest as well (@mymomshops).
my friend's son is autistic and they have used http://www.autismspeaks.org/ a lot to help them. they are involved with the walks in our area every year. if i happen to win this i would pass it on to them.
My son was diagnosed with a severe form of mitchondrial disease, which meant that there wasn't a specific support group, since multiple systems of his body are affected. We use the mito forum, http://www.mitoaction.org/forum (this was once we had a diagnosis) and the infantile spasms group (http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/infantilespasms/) which was useful for his initial diagnosis. We use the IS group frequently, since so many of us have kids that are profoundly affected and still need intensive therapies. We also spend a lot of time discussing drug cocktails and which countries sell which drugs.
Christina.Dreyer.1 gmail.com
I think this site is amazing. Any ABA links that I can pass along I love! - leandrea246(at)hotmail(dot)com
http://www.abaresources.com/resources.htm
When I was doing my research in college for my degree in Elementary Education I wrote a paper about autism. I found http://www.autismspeaks.org/ to be very helpful and informative. I have a friend whos son has Aspergers and I know that this website has also helped her out.
Thanks for the great website! I love your posts.
newmommyin08 AT yahoo DOT com
for me it would be the preeclampsia foundation (other preemie moms)
fridaymoon429@yahoo.com
I have always found that St. Jude's has some great resources for parents and family members.
My sister was a patient there for over 10 years - much of the info you can look up on their website.
I have found that The Creativity Institute has great resources.
http://www.creativityinstitute.com/toysforchildrenwithadhd.aspx
duncan.lisa(at)gmail.com
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