by Jolene | Apr 23, 2020 | How-Tos
Turning Coronavirus Lemons Into Lemonade Turning coronavirus lemons into lemonade is no easy task. All over the globe too many are dying, hospitals and their workers are struggling, economies are faltering, incomes are shrinking, and people are trying to make sense of...
by Trish Shaeffer | Apr 16, 2020 | Self-Care and Stress, Special Needs Parenting
Cerebral Palsy Means No Empty Nest Cerebral palsy means no empty nest for parents like Trish Shaeffer, today’s guest blogger. March was Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month, which led to some soul-searching for Trish. Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month led me to a...
by Mark Arnold | Apr 14, 2020 | How-Tos
Explaining the Coronavirus to People With Special Needs and Disabilities Explaining the coronavirus to people with special needs and disabilities requires creativity and unique resources. Guest blogger Mark Arnold offers both in today’s post. Many children are...
by Jolene | Apr 7, 2020 | Holidays
Sensory Easter activities can be a powerful way to make the Easter story accessible to all children. Guest blogger Mark Arnold joins Different Dream readers this Holy Week to share some of his favorite sensory Easter activities. Easter is one of the most important...
by Lillian Flakes | Apr 2, 2020 | How-Tos
Caregivers can navigate the COVID-19 outbreak successfully! So says today’s guest blogger Lillian Flake, a fellow parent who cares for her daughter Catherine with Down Syndrome. Today Lillian shares 4 common sense ways–some by not doing and some by...
by Jolene | Mar 23, 2020 | How-Tos
Love language hacks for the coronavirus shutdown, at least from my vantage point, are an easy stretch. I know this because the hacks have already been created by parents of kids with special needs and disabilities. They’ve been living with social distancing for...
