Sometimes you can’t help but note and compare the differences in development and progress between your child and other children with special needs.

GROW with Shield HealthCare has been named a PR News' Social Media Awards finalist in the Best Blog category for its support of special needs families.

When you're parenting a child with special needs, there will always be storms. Life is about unexpected situations and how we weather them.

Wanted: Parent of a Child with Complex Needs. Must be willing to work more than 100 hours per week on minimal sleep. Experience in nursing preferred.

To be independent is a hard-wrought thing. Eating, breathing, speaking, moving…these things take intense effort from a child and family with special needs.

There’s something to be said for developing your “surprise face” when someone tells you she’s pregnant. As a special needs mom, there's some PTSD involved.

Watch this recorded webinar - Special needs parenting and raising a child with complex health needs can be a nerve-wracking experience.

When it hit us, it hit hard and fast. I don’t know if there’s an actual name for it, but I call it therapy burnout. We called it quits for a year.

For some families with children with special needs, using the potty may be a delayed process, or not happen at all. And that's okay!

My husband's request for a Father's Day gift surprised me...until I stopped and thought about all he does for our child with cerebral palsy.