by Ellen Stumbo | Aug 17, 2012 | School/Education, Special Needs Parenting
Meet the Teacher Pre-Meeting? Bring Starbucks A meet-the-teacher pre-meeting can be an excellent way to ease the anxiety a child with special needs experiences before the start of a new school year. Guest blogger Ellen Stumbo offers some useful advice about how to...
by Esther Leung | Aug 14, 2012 | School/Education, Special Needs Parenting
Making Homework Enjoyable for Kids with Special Needs Homework has a way of slowly burying kids with special needs as the school year progresses. Thankfully, before that can happen this year, new Different Dream guest blogger Esther Leung offers 8 tips to make doing...
by Jolene | Jun 25, 2012 | School/Education, Special Needs Parenting
Yes, school is out for the summer and IEP annual review season is over. But this post about check lists for kids with transition IEPs just showed up on my radar screen. Judging from the popularity of last month’s Gillian Marchenko and Ellen Stumbo’s guest...
by Jolene | Jun 18, 2012 | School/Education, Special Needs Parenting
How do parents find a school able to meet their child’s special needs? Do they hope their local school fits the bill? Do they move? Do they look into open enrollment? Each of those options can be the right one, depending on circumstances. This list of 10 things...
by Jolene | May 18, 2012 | School/Education, Special Needs Parenting
With IEP Annual Review season in full swing, DifferentDream.com guest bloggers are willing and ready to share the benefits of their experience with you. Yesterday, Ellen Stumbo shared 2 things parents can do to prepare for IEP meetings. Today she’s back with 3...
by Jolene | May 17, 2012 | School/Education, Special Needs Parenting
As was mentioned last week in guest blogger Gillian Marchenko’s post, IEP annual review season is in full swing for parents of kids with special needs identified by the public schools. Gillian shared 5 ways to set a positive tone during an annual review....
