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Four Strategies to Bond with Your Baby While Tube Feeding

Even though you may not be able to feed your child as you planned, you can still comfort and bond with your baby while tube feeding.

Shield HealthCare Nutrition Team
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How to Empty Your Emotional Backpack after COVID-19

We all carry an emotional backpack that holds our memories and life experiences...After this worldwide epidemic, we will have some sorting to do.

Jamie Sumner

What Do You Mean By Diet Change?

To a parent of a child with autism, the news of a needed diet change may sound like a daunting task. Learn how this mom dealt with such unexpected news.

Aimee Sharp

How to Re-Think Summer when Special Needs Programs are Limited

My son, Charlie, attended the best camp of his life last year. He is eight and has cerebral palsy. Because he uses a wheelchair and also a communication device, I was hesitant to even look into summer camp. But he loves public school and being around friends and so I knew summer would be a… Continue reading How to Re-Think Summer when Special Needs Programs are Limited

Jamie Sumner

“Some Good News” and Other Messages of Hope We Need to Celebrate

It will never stop being important to celebrate each moment of recovery we experience during this pandemic. When the good news starts rolling in, and it will, we owe it to ourselves to stop and commemorate it.

Jamie Sumner
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5 Survival Tips for the End-of-Year IEP Meeting

You can’t “mess up” an IEP meeting. Whether you leave feeling fully satisfied in the outcome or not, remember, this is an ongoing discussion.

Jamie Sumner

My Son is Vulnerable to COVID-19, and I Need Help To Keep Him Safe

Yesterday morning I got a call from my son’s Endocrinologist’s office. The blood work that I had postponed due to stay at home orders nearly a month ago still hasn’t been done, and with the recent changes in his thyroid medication, the blood tests are necessary follow up. I spent the day making phone calls… Continue reading My Son is Vulnerable to COVID-19, and I Need Help To Keep Him Safe

Aimee Sharp
COVID-19

Parents, Take Care of Yourselves During COVID-19

As human beings, we have the ability to adapt to a new schedule, a new environment, a different routine within 2 weeks. But that still doesn’t take away our adult worry about a few key questions...

Dr. Liz Matheis
Easter egg hunts

This is How We do Easter Egg Hunts for Our Special Needs Child

I stepped aside...It was independence and inclusion and honestly, a lot more fun than the original. This was Easter egg hunting re-vamped.

Jamie Sumner
Parenting COVID-19

Holding On to Your Parenting Sanity During COVID-19

Trying to multi-task several large roles right now is very difficult for every parent. We are learning our children’s subjects so that we can teach them...

Dr. Liz Matheis
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