3 Great Blogs for Parents of Kids with Special Needs
Blogs for parents of kids with special needs are all over the web these days. Back in the olden days, parents had a hard time finding blogs that spoke to their circumstances. Now the challenge is to wade through the flood of choices to find the really, really good ones.
3 Special Needs Blog Recs from Not-Alone.org
Thankfully, Mike Woods is all over the situation. Not only has he rounded up 20+ special needs parents to blog at Not Alone, myself included, but he also featured several other top notch blogs and reviewed them in one of his posts. Here’s a quick run down:
- Diving For Pearls by Katie Wetherbee. Katie currently serves as the Special Needs Columnist for Children’s Ministry Magazine and she’s also a freelance writer. She is always delighted to talk with parents of children with special needs; this is a journey that Katie shares from personal experience.
- Life With The Loraines by Erin Loraine. After 4 great years on the Family Life staff, serving from Little Rock, AR, God called them back “home” to Missouri to be near family as we raise the “Fab 4″! 2 of the Fab 4 have special needs.
- The Works of God by John Knight. John is married to Dianne and together they parent their four children: Paul, Hannah, Daniel and Johnny. Paul lives with multiple disabilities including blindness, autism, cognitive impairments and a seizure disorder. John blogs on issues of disability, the Bible and the church.
Mike shares more information about each blog at his post I Get By with a Little Help from My Friends, so check it out. Also, you may have noticed that Michelle and Rachel are also guest bloggers here at DifferentDream.com. How cool is that? Regular readers may also think Katie Wetherbee’s name is familiar. That’s because her blog’s been recommended here before. Every one of these bloggers, as well as the guest bloggers at Not-Alone.org, offer both practical tips and spiritual support from a Christian perspective to other parents of kids with special needs.
Your Favorite Special Needs Blogs
Of course, many other great special needs parenting blogs exist. Now’s your chance to provide a link to your personal favorites in the comment box. Don’t forget to include your own blog, if you have one!
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By Jolene
Jolene Philo is the author of several books for the caregiving community. She speaks at parenting and special needs conferences around the country. Sharing Love Abundantly With Special Needs Families: The 5 Love Languages® for Parents Raising Children with Disabilities, which she co-authored with Dr. Gary Chapman, was released in August of 2019 and is available at local bookstores, their bookstore website, and Amazon. See Jane Sing!, the second book in the West River cozy mystery series, which features characters affected by disability, was released in November of 2022.
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Good to meet you Shannon!
I also blog about helping parents of children and teens with disabilities. I have been working in this field for over 10 years. I love what I do and I’m very good at what I do.
I’m so glad to hear all is working out for your sister. The Aaron School sounds amazing!
It was so fulfilling to read this article. I want to thank you for your courageous act of discussing this serious issue. Having faced the same situation with my sister and unable to diagnose it has been pretty devastating for us, until help came in the form of Aaron School. She’s been at Aaron, a special ed school in New York, for the last four years and this time has been a wonderful experience for her, which makes me both proud and happy about her and how everything panned out.
Thanks for the recommendations, Diane!
Thanks for sharing! I’ve linked to this post to my blog http://www.dianedokkokim.com
My three favorite faith-based blogs are:
1) not-alone.org (the best of the best 🙂
2) http://www.joniandfriends.org/daily-devotional/
3) http://www.comfortinthemidstofchaos.com
God bless