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!
PTSD in the Entire Family
Is PTSD in the entire family even possible? Today’s guest blogger says yes. She explains how she detected it and what she did about it.
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Nambala Is Home
Nambala, a little boy in Congo, died the day before he was to move to a new orphanage for children with special needs. No one in his village valued him enough to take him to the doctor.
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Dream Team Link Share #235
The Dream Team Link Share is back with another special needs link share. All posts related to special needs and disabilities are welcome!
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9 Sleep Tips for Parents of Kids with Special Needs
Check out these sleep tips for parents. They can help you feel rested and ready for the challenges of parenting kids with special needs and their typical siblings.
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The Truth About Being a Special Needs Parent
Trish Shaeffer offers encouragement out of her personal experience of being at her wit’s end and discovering she is made of the same tough stuff as every special needs parent.
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Dream Team Link Share #234
The Dream Team Link Share is back with another special needs link share. All posts related to special needs and disabilities are welcome!
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9 Ways Parents of Kids with Special Needs Can Make Time for Themselves
This list of ways parents of kids with special needs can make time for themselves is designed to help caregivers stay sane.
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Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World
Eunice Kennedy is best known as the founder of Special Olympics. Eileen McNamara’s biography of this complex woman reveals her life long advocacy for children, women, and people with disabilities.
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Dream Team Link Share #233
The Dream Team Link Share is back after Labor Day for another special needs link share. All posts related to special needs and disabilities are welcome!
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There Goes Another Summer
Sigh… there goes another summer, Snoopy! ~ Charlie Brown
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When Autism Gives Courage to Stand
Autism gives courage to stand. To the daughter who lives with autism. To her mother as she observes her daughter’s delight in worship. And to all who read these words from guest blogger Amy Felix.
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Dream Team Link Share #232
The Dream Team Link Share has a new link share for the end of August. Add your posts about the end of summer and the beginning of a new school all day.
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Ministering To and With Those Who Teach Our Children with Special Needs
When we move from expecting those who teach our children with special needs to ministering with them, amazing things can happen.
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If You Have Told a Child a Thousand Times
If you have told a child a thousand times and he still does not understand, then it is not the child who has a problem. ~ Walter Barbie
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What Teachers Think About the Week Before School Begins
Take a peek at what teachers think about the week before school begins. It may explain why they look nervous on the first day of school.
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Measuring Milestones in Micros
Parents of kids with special needs know that measuring in micros is one way to remain encouraged. Kimberly Drew believes spiritual encouragement comes from measuring in micros, too.
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