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Planning A Move With A Child With A Disability Can Be Complicated!
By: Renata Bursten, Dragonfly Staff
Moving when your family includes a child with special needs can be a daunting task, especially when the rules change from state to state! Find help here.
This Parent's Guide from NICHCY is intended to help families who have a child with a disability map out their stategy when planning a move, either within the same state or to another state.
,Specific concerns covered include: learning the new state's policies regarding special education and SSI benefits; obtaining all of the child's educational and medical records to transfer to the new location; identifying parent or disability groups in the new location; and ensuring that school records, particularly the IFSP or IEP, are transferred to the new location.
,Also included is a checklist of the tasks that need to be completed when moving.
Planning A Move
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Why do they put everything in their mouths?
One of the earliest fine moter skill children develop is the skill of "sensation". Sensation is the skill we use to tell the difference between a quarter and a dime by touch without needing to look at the coins.
Cognitively young children have their best sensation descrimination in their mouths. By mouthing objects and then feeling them with their hands, children correlate the sensations from two different sensory input channels.
,This "sensory intgration" helps them to tune up the sensory apparatus in the hands. As the hands become more sensitive, children will need to put things in their mouths less and less.
During this oral stage it is important to offer many textured grasp and handle toys. Dragonfly offers a full collection of well designed and easy to handle toys of this type.