by Bonnie Landau | Mar 8, 2018 | Autism, Blog, Social Skills
I am the first to admit that I hate labels. As an adolescent I wanted so much to fit in and be like everybody else. In my early 20s, I took the Meyers Briggs personality test and found out I was an INFJ – rarest personality type. Only 2% of the population falls into...
by Bonnie Landau | Mar 2, 2018 | Autism, Blog, Social Skills
Most people assume if a person has trouble looking you straight in the eye, he must have autism. This is plain not true, and I wish people would stop with the armchair diagnosis when it comes to this social skill. I want to share the very many reasons people will...
by Bonnie Landau | Feb 22, 2018 | Advocacy, Blog, IEP
I know how overwhelming and IEP meeting can be, and it is very difficult to know if they are covering everything they are suppose to. This is especially true if you do not have a special education advocate to help ensure everything is done properly. Not all IEP...
by Bonnie Landau | Feb 21, 2018 | 504, Advocacy, Blog, IEP
I so wish I had a magic wand to get schools to say yes when the child clearly needs services but the schools are obviously manipulating the situation to make sure they can say no. Special education advocates know that the law is the way to get schools to change their...
by Bonnie Landau | Feb 17, 2018 | Blog, Learning Disability, Neuroplasticity, Reading, Visual Processing
Mention a visual processing disorder (VPD) and the first thing a parent will say is, “But the eye doctor said he has 20/20 vision!” A person can have perfect focus but still have a visual processing disorder. This is because the problem with a visual processing...
by Bonnie Landau | Jan 19, 2018 | Assessments, Blog, Learning Disability, Therapy
Primary reflex integration has quickly become one of the standard therapies to help children with ADHD, sensory processing, learning disabilities, autism and behavioral problems. It is an exercise-based therapy that helps recreate early baby movements that then help...
by Bonnie Landau | Jan 18, 2018 | Advocacy, Blog
It is hard to stay on top of all the social media information, but it is important to keep abreast of what is going on in special education. These are the people I follow to help me learn new strategies for kids as well as information on changes in government policy....
by Bonnie Landau | Jan 17, 2018 | Assessments, Blog, Learning Disability, Learning Styles, Reading
When a child starts to learn to read, you never expect it to be a challenge. Yet 1 in 5 children will have difficulty mastering this essential skill. Most will be diagnosed with dyslexia, and it will be assumed that their brain functions in a way that reading will...
by Bonnie Landau | Jan 14, 2018 | Biomedical Healing, Blog
Biomedical healing has become a standard approach to helping children with cognitive and developmental delays. We’ve done it with our own son and saw dramatic improvement in attention, processing, language, emotional regulation and anxiety. He was so improved he...
by Bonnie Landau | Dec 31, 2017 | Advocacy, Blog, IEP, Printable
Creating an IEP binder is one of the best ways to make sure it is easy to access all the details in the mounds of paperwork. Between IEP documents, school documents and outside doctor assessments, and research, you can literally have piles of paperwork to sort...
by Bonnie Landau | Dec 31, 2017 | Advocacy, Blog, IDEA, Special Ed Law
Procedural Safeguards, sometimes called Parent Rights, are the laws each state has implemented in order to ensure compliance with IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act). While the Federal Government establishes laws for special education through the IDEA,...
by Bonnie Landau | Dec 2, 2017 | Blog
There are many people in the special education world who champion causes to help kids with learning challenges. Scott Barry Kaufman is one of the more unique activists in that he himself had learning challenges that he overcame. He truly is a symbol of the potential...
by Bonnie Landau | Nov 30, 2017 | Auditory Processing, Blog, Learning Disability
Audiologists have not determined exactly what causes auditory processing disorder (APD), although there has been some consensus that there are two primary types: Acquired APD: The child was born with normal auditory function, but at some point the hearing system was...
by Bonnie Landau | Nov 18, 2017 | Auditory Processing, Blog
Auditory processing disorder (APD) is one of the lesser known disabilities, but more and more it is being identified as the root cause of learning challenges. The most common type of APD is difficulty understanding language in the presence of competing sounds. There...
by Bonnie Landau | Nov 3, 2017 | Blog, Sensory Processing, Stress & Learning
Hands down the weighted blanket was the best thing we ever bought to help our son with sensory issues. There would have many more meltdowns and many more nights without sleep if we had not invested in this invaluable. Here are 5 reasons I think you should have a...
by Steve Weed | Sep 1, 2017 | 504, Advocacy, Blog, IEP
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by a fellow Karen Thomas, a fellow Special Ed Mom who has an online community called Naturally Healing Autism. Karen has a background in natural medicine, and when your son was diagnosed with autism, she used her knowledge to...
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