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Surviving the Holidays

  

The holiday season is fast approaching. For children with disabilities, the holiday season may be met with apprehension, anxiousness and additional stress. Here are some quick tips.

Buying for Kids with Special Needs in the Holiday Season: 5 Tips

 

  1. Understand Their Special Need Is A Must: It doesn't require a great deal of research to understand what the best toy is for a child with a disability and/or a special health care need. 
  2. Think Comprehension Level not Age Group: Some childrens with disabilities may have cognitive or communication delays which impact their basic comprehension levels. 
  3. Understand the Area of Interest for that Special Needs Child: Some children with special needs really have their likes and dislikes clearly defined. 
  4. Understand the Mobility and Motor Skill Development of the Child: Some children with special needs can be behind in motor skill development. 
  5. Think About Safety At All Times: You should consider the safety of the child with any particular special needs toy you are planning to purchase.

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Food Allergies and the Holidays 
 

Holidays that revolve around food can truly be challenges for families raising children with food allergies. The traditional meal for your family can present numerous allergy risks and the risks can be even greater if you are not preparing the meal yourself.

How to Help Your Child Learn to Share

 
Learning how to share is a big challenge for all children because it often means putting aside one's own needs in order to make someone else happy. Sharing is not a skill children have when they are born-they need to be taught how to share and how to see that their efforts have helped someone else feel happy or solve a problem. In order to learn this skill, children need adults to provide them with many different opportunities where they can practice how to share with others and see other children in the act of sharing.
 
Holiday Traveling Tips
 
Many kids with disabilities thrive on set schedules, and vacations in new places far from home can cause discomfort and disrupt routines. With proper planning and organizing, you can help your child adjust so everyone in the family can travel together.
happy holidays
Our centers will be closed from December 25, 2013- January 2, 2014.

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Garden City Parent Center

(620) 276-6364 or (888) 820-6364
(913) 287-1970 or (877) 499-5369
(800) 499-9443
Topeka Parent Center                        

(785) 233-4777 or (800) 264-6343   

Wichita Administrative Center

(316) 945-7747 or (888) 815-6364

Wichita Parent Center                

(316) 945-7747 or (888) 815-6364

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Upcoming Events

Shaping a Healthy

Future: Health Team Empowerment Conference

December 7, 2013

Wichita 

 

Family Enrichment Weekend

February 14th-15th, 2014

 Garden City 


March 1, 2014

Wichita 

 

Family Enrichment Weekend

April 25-26, 2014

  
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Easter Seals Capper Foundation provides exceptional individualized services to ensure that people with disabilities and their families have opportunities to live, learn, work and play in their communities.

 

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Families Together, Inc. is the statewide organization that assists parents and their sons and daughters with disabilities. Our program's mission is to encourage, educate, and empower families to be effective advocates for their children.