It is time, once again, for the Special Needs Blog Week in Review. As always, there are a variety of topics to be found. A few blogs discuss tips for helping kids with special needs to cope with Halloween. There were also blogs about ADA upgrades, EE, cystic fibrosis, and a new study about autism and difficulties with using language to describe behavior.
How to Make Halloween Easier for Kids With Autism
This blog gives you some tips that can help your child who has an autism spectrum disorder to cope with all the changes that come with Halloween. It helps to prepare your child as soon as possible for Halloween. Parents need to be flexible when it comes to things like costumes and trick-or-treating.
California Town Begins Accessibility Upgrades The town of Paso Robles, California, has begun the required upgrades to their downtown area. This includes the creation of bathrooms that are wheelchair accessible, a family bathroom, more disabled – designated parking spaces, ramps at the end of sidewalks on the curbs, and more.
Halloween Events for Kids With Special Needs
This blog has information about several Halloween events that are designed for children who have special needs. These are great for children who have sensory disorders that make attending a really scary Halloween event, with flashing lights and fog machine, extremely unpleasant.
Climbing a Mountain for a Cure
You have probably heard of a Walk for the Cure, or a Run for the Cure, of a particular disease. This is the first time I’ve ever heard of a group of people climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in order to raise money for a cure. They want to find a cure for Eosinophilic Esophagitis.
Cystic Fibrosis Controversy Removes Boy from School
This is an odd story! An eleven year old boy carries the genetic mutations for cystic fibrosis, but he doesn’t actually have the disease. There were a few students at his Middle School that did have cystic fibrosis. The school decided to remove the boy not for his own health, but to protect the health of the students who have cystic fibrosis.
Study Finds Kids With Autism Lack Language to Describe Behavior
Researchers did a study where they took brain scans while giving children a specific task. Some kids in the study had autism, and some did not. The children who did not have autism accessed portions of the brain that used language when identifying an image of a child who was being bad. The kids with autism didn’t access those areas of the brain.
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