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Resources for Avoiding Allergens in Halloween Candy

Halloween is just a few days away. Most children are excitedly looking forward to going trick-or-treating and getting lots of candy. If your child has food allergies, some of that candy can be dangerous. Here are some resources to help parents figure out if there is an allergen in the candy that your child brought home. Let me start this blog with a bit of a “disclaimer”. Parents need to use their best judgement about whether or not a particular Halloween candy is safe for their child to eat. Always read the ingredients that are on the package. Use the … Continue reading →

More Halloween Events for Kids with Special Needs

Halloween is happening soon! This year, the holiday is taking place on a Wednesday. This means that there will be events happening this weekend, and through the week. There are plenty of Halloween events that are designed for children who have special needs to attend. Here are some more of them to check out. On October 25, 2012, Marbles Kids Museum, which is located in Raleigh, North Carolina, will host a Family Fun Night Spooktacular for children who have special needs and their families. Children are encouraged to wear Halloween costumes. The event is set up to allow children who … Continue reading →

Halloween, Mountain Climbing, School Removal, and More!

It is time, once again, for the Special Needs Blog Week in Review. As always, there are a variety of topics to be found. A few blogs discuss tips for helping kids with special needs to cope with Halloween. There were also blogs about ADA upgrades, EE, cystic fibrosis, and a new study about autism and difficulties with using language to describe behavior. How to Make Halloween Easier for Kids With Autism This blog gives you some tips that can help your child who has an autism spectrum disorder to cope with all the changes that come with Halloween. It … Continue reading →

Halloween Events for Kids With Special Needs

Halloween can be fun, but it can also be scary. Not every Halloween event is designed to accommodate kids who have special needs, but there are starting to be more of them happening. The “trick” is to find them! Here is a list of upcoming Halloween events that are for children who have special needs. On October 23, 2012, the Valley Church, which is located in West Des Moines, Iowa, will hold “The Great Pumpkin Party”. There will be more than one event, but the party designed for children who have special needs will happen on October 23. It will … Continue reading →

How to Make Halloween Easier for Kids With Autism

Halloween is a holiday that might be difficult for children who have an autism spectrum disorder to cope with. Things get decorated in unexpected ways. Social skills can falter when a person is wearing a costume. Here are some tips to make Halloween easier for kids who have autism. Start preparing your child now! If your child is in a Special Education classroom, there is a good possibility that his or her teacher has been slowly getting the students used to the idea that Halloween is coming, and has been discussing some of the changes that will happen. Awesome teachers … Continue reading →

Halloween Allergens, Dyslexic Fonts, and Homecoming

This week, the Special Needs Blog has included a wide range of topics. I guess that makes the Special Needs Blog Week in Review a little bit more interesting. This time, we have blogs about mercury, Halloween related allergens, Homecoming, medications for kids who don’t need it, and a font that can be read by people with dyslexia. “No Candy Halloween” Safer for Kids With Food Allergies This Halloween, consider offering a non-food item to the trick-or-treaters that come to your door. Halloween candy often contains allergens that children who have food allergies cannot safely consume. Everyone can enjoy a … Continue reading →

Beware of Allergens on Halloween

No one wants to have their Halloween fun end with a trip to the emergency room. Halloween includes costumes, candy, carved pumpkins, and other things that could include an allergen that your child reacts to. Here are some things to beware of this Halloween. Halloween candy could be dangerous for kids who have food allergies. The bite-sized candies that your trick-or-treater collects probably doesn’t have the ingredients listed on the packaging. There could be peanuts included in candies that you would not normally expect there to be any peanuts in. Exposure could cause a child who is allergic to peanuts … Continue reading →

Free Fall Crafts, Events, and Breakfasts

October brings plenty of Fall Festivals and Halloween celebrations. Many of them are things your family can attend for free, or for a low cost. Here are a few upcoming fun and frugal Fall activities that will be going on between now and October 14, 2012, (and a few that are going on all month long). Stuckmeyer’s Farm located in Fenton, Missouri, is having Farm Fun Days every weekend in October. It happens every Saturday and Sunday from 9:00 in the morning to 5:00 in the evening. Admission is free. There will be hayrides, pony rides, an inflatable slide, live … Continue reading →

Be An Ice Cream Truck on Halloween

Making the rounds on the internet today is a story about an incredible Halloween costume that a father made for his son, who uses a wheelchair. This is a wonderful example of one of the many ways that the special needs that a child happens to have can be incorporated into a really fun Halloween costume. There is a lot of decision making that goes into a Halloween costume. Children who have certain kinds of special needs might have difficulty with the sensory aspects of wearing a costume. Kids with an autism spectrum disorder might struggle with seeing their friends … Continue reading →

Homecoming, Halloween, Toy Catalogs, and More!

This Special Needs Week in Review blog just so happens to fall on the very last day of September. A wide variety of subjects hit the blog this week. There are blogs about homecoming rumors, Halloween activities for kids with special needs, a new drug, a new toy guide, and some concern about “clustering”. Arbaclofen May Help Symptoms of Fragile X Syndrome Arbaclofen, (also called STX209), has been approved to treat one of the symptoms of Fragile X Syndrome. It helps with social withdrawal. There is potential that this drug might also help people who have an autism spectrum disorder … Continue reading →