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Understanding Sibling Issues
Raising a child with a disability or chronic illness poses many challenges. Some of these challenges focus on the relationship between the siblings in the family. These crucial relationships are examined in this article.
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Bandaides And Blackboards
By: Renata Bursten, Dragonfly Staff
This is a site about growing up with medical problems of all types. Has sections for kids, teens and adults.
Bandaides and Blackboards helps people understand what it's like, from the perspective of the children and teens to grow up with a medical problem.
,These kids have become experts at coping with problems that most have never heard of. They'd like you to know how they do it. The content is divided into three parts; one for kids, one for teens, and one for adults. The adult section offers especially good information for parents coping with a child's hospital stay.
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PLAY Tip
Playing Choo Choo with Double Decker Dominoes!
If your child with special needs is between the cognitive ages of 18 months and four years, try making "Choo-Choo trains" with the Double Decker Dominoes.
Place all dominoes face up near to the child. Start the train with one block, call it the "engine." Match another block to the back pattern of the engine block. Together, you can take turns matching the correct shape to the back of the train.
When the train is long enough, let the child push the train off of the table into a basket. A great way to develop sensory processing skills!