Resources
Browse fun and helpful toys and therapy items for individuals with special needs
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Fat Brain Toys
Fat Brain Toys breaks down their toys into 22 different special needs categories. Check out the post HERE, or click the image to go directly to the FBT Special Needs Category webpage.
The Autism Site Store
The Autism Site offers 6 skill categories of toys to browse to help enhance the play and development of children on the autism spectrum.
Kozie Clothes
Kozie Clothes provides clothing designed especially for babies and kids with medical or sensory processing needs including onesies for G-tube fed babies, weighted vests and blankets, and more!
Recommended Books
Check out Different Dream Living’s recommended books on the topics of special needs, PTSD, and parenting.
More resources still to come!
In the meantime, check out our most recent blog posts!
4 Strategies to Create a Sense of Control for Kids with Special Needs
The need for control is a basic human need. Learn how to offer kids with special needs a sense of control when they undergo difficult hospitalizations, procedures, and therapies.
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The Three Friends Every Caregiver Needs
Lillian Flakes describes the friends every caregiver needs, wisdom she learned from experience as the parent of a daughter with Down syndrome.
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Dream Team Link Share #254
The Dream Team Link Share is back with another special needs link up. All posts related to special needs and disabilities are welcome!
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The ACEs and Toxic Stress: Implications for Children with Special Needs?
This infographic shows the relationship between ACEs and toxic stress. This relationship has implications for our children with special needs.
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How Wheel of Fortune Changed Our Lives…Really!
Rachel Olstad shares the amazing, delightful, and humorous story of how Wheel of Fortune changed her family’s life. You’re gonna love it!
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Dream Team Link Share #253
The Dream Team Link Share is back with another special needs link up. All posts related to special needs and disabilities are welcome!
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Our Expected but Blessed EA/TEF Journey: A Year Later
Kristen Horton is back with an update about her EA/TEF boy Christopher and the expected but blessed progress he’s made in the past year.
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Dream Team Link Share #252
The Dream Team Link Share is back with another special needs link up. All posts related to special needs and disabilities are welcome!
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My Special Needs Mom Worries Never End
Our special needs mom worries never end, but we can learn how to combat them and grow our faith at the same time.
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What It Is Like To Parent an EA/TEF Child
What it is like to parent an EA/TEF baby is unimaginable to most people. Danielle Drummond creates a vivid picture of the challenges and joys of her family’s experience.
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My Best Advice for New Parents of EA/TEF Babies
With age comes wisdom, and from the vantage point of age I am sharing my best advice for new parents during EA/TEF Awareness Month, 2019.
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Dream Team Link Share #251
The Dream Team Link Share is back with another special needs link up. All posts related to special needs and disabilities are welcome!
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An Esophageal Atresia Story: Jack’s Journey
The Cheneys didn’t expect their baby’s life to be an esophageal atresia story. For EA/TEF Awareness Month, Jen tells the tale of their sons first 8 months.
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Wisdom Shared by EA/TEF Parents: 9 Years of Stories and Strategies
Wisdom shared by parents has been the heart of EA/TEF Awareness Month at Different Dream for 9 years. This post links to much of what they’ve learned.
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Dream Team Link Share #250
The Dream Team Link Share is back for another special needs link share. All posts related to special needs and disabilities are welcome!
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Something Is Wrong with Your Baby: 5 Things I Wish I’d Known
Here are 5 things I wish I’d known when the doctor sat by my hospital bed and said, “Something is wrong with your baby.”
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