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Jigsaw puzzles are traditional family fun. They also encourage valuable thinking skills for developmentally delayed children.

Great ways to encourage talking as you take a walk with your special needs child.

The word has evolved into everyday use far different than its definition and medical origin a century ago. It's time to erase the R-word from America's slang.

The world will see more athletes with disabilities on the courts, in the water, and on the field. Don't be fooled by appearances, though. These competitors play to win.

Many individuals equate an autism spectrum disorder with mental retardation. This widely-held thought is actually a misconception and is based on outdated studies.

The Montessori Method of teaching has been making a strong comeback over the past decade.

With autism being diagnosed in 1 in every 166 children, autism awareness is on the rise. Unfortunately, there are still a number of myths associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Children have delays in talking for a variety of reasons: Autism Spectrum Disorder, developmental delays, and hearing loss. Simple fun with Playdoh can encourage speech.

Puzzles give practice with problem solving and visual discrimination. Try these make-at-home puzzle ideas for some cool down time with your special needs child.

Puzzles are more than cardboard pieces to fit into a picture. These puzzles make fine motor and pre-reading skills fun for kids who struggle with school!

Everything gets crazy at the holidays. Daily routines often get pushed aside. Why are keeping routines important to the child with a disbility?

In New York, in the absence of a patient's competence to express wishes about treatment, only written Advance Directives allow doctors to remove life support measures.

The Terrible Towel waved by Pittsburgh Steelers football fans has created a sea of yellow since 1975 when Myron Cope created the idea for this championship NFL team.

Dublin native Lorna Byrne has been seeing angels since she was a baby. In "Angels in My Hair" she tells the astonishing story of her life and experiences.

Autism rates have risen. Yet a closer look finds that the number of children diagnosed with mental retardation and learning disabilities has fallen at the same time.

Need some ideas for original persuasive essay topics? Here are a list of term paper topics that will stand out because they focus on smaller parts of major issues.

ACLU is still detested by many Americans despite helping to win more than 100 cases involving individual freedoms and rights.

Popular media isn't up to providing realistic characters who are disabled, so how can you, as a writer of fiction, do any better? Simple. Just write them as people.

An adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's 1921 short story in which a man lives out his life in reverse; being born old and dying young.

Does it matter how your child is classified as a special education student? I mean, after all, Special Ed is SPECIAL ED: right?

Between December 1827 and October 1828, William Burke and William Hare murdered 17 people and sold their corpses to the Edinburgh Medical College.

The lawyers of Crane, Poole & Schmidt are back for Season Four, bringing new characters to the team, and facing ever so increasing opponents in court. 8.5/10

Several authors of the last sixty years, including several prize winners, have written their own versions of Cinderella.

Around the turn of the seventeenth century, during Russia's "Time of Troubles," several men arose pretending to be the slain heir to the Russian throne, Dmitri Ivanovich.

Both Sen. McCain and Sen. Obama represent themselves as advocates of Autism. But what do they really intend to do? What are their records?

Will today's economic funding cuts to programs which serve the vulnerable population be the impetus to increased patient abuse and neglect cases?

Shriver's devotion and passion to the Special Olympics made a difference in millions of lives which would otherwise be ignored.

Don Carlos, Prince of Asturias and heir to King Philip II of Spain, was a fearful example of the damage wrought by inbreeding in the royal House of Habsburg.