Special Needs
Find support for parents of children with special needs. Learn how to advocate for your child, raise funds for needed equipment and find helpful organizations.
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Education, Special Needs
11 Things to Look for When Choosing a Special Needs Preschool
If you're in the market for a preschool program for your special needs child, you may be wondering what to look for, what questions to ask the teachers, and how...
Support
Wine for Moms of Blind Kids
A glass of wine with dinner helps iron out the stresses of the day for lots of moms, but us special needs moms have more stresses than most!
Advocacy, Toys
#ToyLikeMe Brings Disability Awareness to the Toy Box
#ToyLikeMe is bringing revolution to the toy box by advocating major toy companies to include representations of disabilities in their product lines.
Parenting, Special Needs
What I Will Say the Next Time Someone Asks an Insensitive Question About My Deafblind Daughter
"What's wrong with her eyes?" Do people ask you questions about your blind child? What do you say?
Parenting, Special Needs
Why I’m Talking About Sex and Intimacy as a Special Needs Mom
A call to couples and parents raising special needs kids to prioritize sex and physical intimacy in their relationships.
Parenting, Special Needs
8 things I am so done with as a special needs mom
It's hard to keep things together as a special needs family. I'm losing patience and I feel totally selfish for being so annoyed with the world, but I'm going to...
Assistive Technology
Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP)
The Described and Captioned Media Program provides a library of free-loan described and captioned educational media for students who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, and deaf-blind.
Advocacy
5 TED Talks by Presenters Who Are Blind
Here are five TED Talks given by presenters who are blind. Not only are they entertaining and educational, each speech is perfectly balanced with the right amount of seriousness and...
Play, Special Needs
15+ Summer Camps for Blind Kids
There are many annual summer camps your blind or visually impaired child or teenager can attend. We found 15 camps for braille, sports, independence, leadership and more!
Assistive Technology, iPad Apps and Accessibility
Buy Assistive Technology from Apple
You can now purchase assistive technology products directly from Apple on the Global Apple Store. Products are currently available in a variety of categories including Vision, Physical & Motor Skills...
Parenting, Support
Surviving the First 18 Months After Learning Your Child is Blind
Learning your baby is blind is hard... but you will move on! Janine says, "Life was continuing and I started to realize how strong we were becoming. The tears were...
Parenting, Support
When I Feel Alone as a Mom to a Child With Anophthalmia, I Remember This
Gwen writes about her baby daughter, Ivey, and the medical issues she faces. Gwen finds strength in her friends, family and even strangers who are drawn to her little girl.
Assistive Technology
Images Now Accessible on Facebook, Twitter
New accessibility features make images accessible to blind users on social networks Facebook and Twitter
Parenting, Support
Disabled Parenting Project
The Disabled Parenting Project (DPP) is an online space for sharing experiences, advice, and conversations among disabled parents as well as those considering parenthood.
Parenting, Support
“What if I die?” Creating a care plan to combat the secret fear of every special needs parent
If you are the primary caregiver of a special needs child, you probably worry about what would happen if you were gone.
Parenting, Support
25 Things Only a Mother of a Child who is Visually Impaired Would Understand
Becoming a parent to any child is magical in its own right, but here is a list of observations about things only a mother of a child who is visually...
Advocacy
Sometimes I just don’t feel like “teaching” people about blindness
As members of the blindness community, we find ourselves with the opportunity to teach others about blindness all the time. But do you ever want to just skip the teachable...
Parenting, Special Needs
What I wish people understood about raising a medically complex child
Here's something I've learned in the last 10 years: Raising a special needs child is hard, but raising a special needs child who is medically complex is much harder.
Parenting, Special Needs
Parenting a Child with a Rare Disease
Navigating life's path as a parent of a child diagnosed with a rare disease can be hard at times. It's okay to look to others for help.
Adoption
Emma’s Dilemma: A Book About Acceptance and Adoption
A little girl must complete a family tree for school but fears her classmates won't understand her own tree, which includes adoptive and biological parents.
Sleep, Special Needs
Getting a Special Needs Bed Funded Through Insurance
Does your child need a special bed in order to be safe at night? Special needs beds can be prohibitively expensive, so most of us require our insurance to cover...
Support
They told me to take care of myself, I told them I’ll sleep when I’m dead
Nicole writes about how difficult it is to find the time and money to get away on a vacation when you're the parent of a child with complex needs -...
Parenting, Special Needs
Blind Motherhood
Holly Bonner writes about being a mother to two beautiful little girls. What makes her blog different than most mommy blogs is that Holly is blind. She blogs about life...
Support
Most Popular Shared Resources for Parents of Blind Children
Each year, we see lots of really interesting and exciting resources for parents of blind children shared on WonderBaby.org. Here are the 20 most popular resources shared in 2015!