Free Printable Cut and Color Phonics Readers

Free Printable Cut and Color Leveled Reader Booklets
30+ free printable phonics, spelling, reading and content area booklets; grade-leveled for easy use by parents, caregivers and grandparents as well as teachers. Save hundreds on summer tutoring with free internet printable lesson plans! Click here...

Free Printable Math Lessons and Activities

Websites for Free Math Help Internet websites that offer free math tutoring, lessons and tools. Lots of free printable worksheets,games and activities. Basic math, fractions, decimals, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus and more. Good sites for students, teachers, parents and home school. Excellent free resources for CI, LD kids, special needs students and special education programs. Click here

Learning Games for Special Needs Students

How to Plan Summer Tutoring for Children Summer approaches and kids are delighted, but as adults, we know that time away from studies can take it's toll on skills gained over the school year. Here's a guide for parents to help students practice skills over the summer. Read on.

Free Printable Money Math Lesson Plans, Life Skills Lessons

Free Printable Money Math Lesson Plans--Life Skills, Banking, Shopping Free Printable Math and Money lesson plans, games, activities, projects, cut and paste, flashcards and worksheets. Teach coin counting, adding, making change, multiplication, division, banking, balancing a checkbook, calculating sales, discounts and shopping. Read on

Best Books for Autism Awareness Month

April is Autism Awareness Month. Here is my recommended reading list for special needs educators, parents and caregivers. These stories and volumes are dated, but not out of date. They provide a focal point for where we've been, where we are and where we are going in special education. My copies are dogeared and torn. And I treasure them like Croesus's gold. Best Books on Special Needs Children 

Free Printable Play Money for Life Skills, Math

Children love to play with money. As they play store and interact with play money, they learn math skills and marketing and economics lessons. Play money provides great practice for special needs students in important life skills and transition activities. Here are links to free printable play money. Read more Free Printable Play Money: American and Euro 

Self Care for Caregivers of Handicapped Kids

Self Care Basics: Ways to Stay Sane and Healthy. Care-givers with special needs children are especially prone to low self-esteem and depression. Please read this guide to self-care and emotional health issues. You can't pour from an empty cup. For more on emotional health, visit me at my blogspot blogs: Emotional Health Help and Health Help 4U. read on
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Panic Attacks: Identification and Coping Skills

Panic attacks are much more common than most people realize. Panic attacks in children are particularly distressing for children and parents or teachers. It's easy to mistake a panic attack. Panic attacks may be overlooked, pooh-poohed or attributed to other issues. But the good news is that panic attacks are relatively easy to control once they are identified. Do you or someone you love suffer from panic attacks? Can you recognize a panic attack? Here's a guide for identifying and coping with panic attacks. kids and panic attacks

Test Anxiety- Coping Skills

Test Anxiety is a situational panic attack that affects many students. Test anxiety causes most students to freeze up when they face test-taking. Test anxiety causes students to perform poorly on tests that they are prepared for and should pass easily. Test anxiety affects a student's ability to demonstrate proficiency and can seriously alter grades, teacher expectation, success in school and ultimately a student's self-concept. Test anxiety is a condition that often goes unrecognized. Students may be labeled 'slow', 'challenged' or 'learning disabled'. Even though we have progressed in special education and our perception of special needs students, many kids fall through the cracks. Here's an article to help you self-diagnose test anxiety and develop healthy coping skills. Read more test anxiety tips

Age Appropriate Sexuality and Child Development

Kids Sexuality: Psychology, Development, Behavior and Healthy Attitudes
Child sexuality is an edgy issue. Religious dogmas can complicate the issue. Child sexuality can only be understood within a developmental framework. What is age appropriate behavior? How can we help children develop healthy sexuality? read more