If you have already gone through the IEP process and signed off, it isn’t too late! At any time you can “request an IEP meeting to reopen your child’s IEP.” One reason for this could be due to “change in diagnosis.” Another may be new information that has come to light. We have an entire…
Why Are There So Many French Fries Around?
Some believe the resistance to move away from junk foods is due to addiction which is scientifically planned. From the article ‘Food cravings engineered by industry How Big Food keeps us eating through a combination of science and marketing’ “Salt, sugar and fat are the three pillars of the processed food industry,” Michael Moss said. “And while the industry…
Support Sources for Military Families With Special Needs
Special Education – DoDEA Publications The following publications have been developed by DoDEA Headquarters to provide school personnel, parents, and community resource personnel with an overview of special education and related services in DoDEA. Resources that are available include, a handbook for parents, and a series of ten (10) brochures on topics related to special…
Nutrition A Paradigm Shift In The Treatment Of TBI and Strokes
Recently the Department of Defense together with the Institute of Medicine published ‘Nutrition and Traumatic Brain Injury: Improving Acute and Subacute Health Outcomes in Military Personnel (2011)’ In the report, there were a number of nutrients found to be effective. While there are a number of them found naturally through food sources including polyphenols which…
How To Start A Support Group for Apraxia, Autism, Epilepsy etc.
“JOIN OR START A SUPPORT GROUP. There is strength in numbers. Band together with other parents in your own community and hold regular meetings. If you can’t find enough parents locally, check out Internet listservs where compassionate and intelligent advice may come from a kindred soul who may be a thousand miles, but just the…
From Struggles with Apraxia to Honors; Tanner Geng’s Success
“My biggest struggle was not being able to pronounce the words correctly or people couldn’t understand what I was saying if I was talking to them.”~ Tanner Geng Tanner’s Background From when he was 3 More recent updates about Tanner Letter To Me In 1999 From Me In 2015 from Jake’s Journey With Apraxia Growing…
Epigenics Through Diet Holds Promise For Health, Treatment For Autism, Apraxia And Other Conditions
Recently, the journal Pediatrics published ‘Therapies for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders” three different government funded studies that analyzed autism research from 2000 to 2010 for “Pharmacologic and Complementary-Alternative Medicine” (prescription drugs – biomedical treatments) as well as various types of early intervention therapies. Support for the treatments and therapies used for a decade to…
You Are What Your Mother Ate
Research provides new insight into why poor diet during pregnancy negatively affects offspring’s long term health. University of Cambridge Date: 09/03/11 Poor diet during pregnancy increases offspring’s vulnerability to the effects of aging, new research has shown for the first time. The research, by scientists from the University of Cambridge, provides important insight into why…
Note To Reality TV Show ‘America’s Next Great Restaurant’… Please Choose Healthy!
For the sake of all of us! Someone needs to save us from restaurants like the one in Chandler, Arizona named the “Heart Attack Grill.” This restaurant makes a lame attempt at humor about cardiovascular disease and death by giving free “food” such as “Double Bypass Burger and Flatliner Fries” to patrons that weight 350…
Should We Blame Soda or Energy Drinks For the Sudden Rise Of Strokes In Children?
Note: February 14th, 2011, 3 days after I wrote this blog, there was a study published in the AAP Journal Pediatrics ‘Health Effects of Energy Drinks on Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults’ which stated: “energy drinks are consumed by 30% to 50% of adolescents and young adults…and “known and unknown pharmacology of agents included in…