Special Needs Blog Week in Review – Week of February 12 – 18, 2012

The Special Needs Blog Week in Review is a great way to quickly catch up on everything that appeared in the Special Needs Blog in the past week. It is a good way to make sure that you haven’t missed anything. You can scan through this list to search for blogs about whatever particular special needs your child happens to have. The Special Needs Podcast Roundup for the week went up on February 13, 2012. I would like to point out an episode done by The Coffee Klatch that is titled “NY Times Op Ed Gone Wrong – Ritalin Gone … Continue reading

Newborns With Heart Surgery

In the news this week, there have been two stories about newborns that required heart surgery. A five day old infant had her heart rebuilt by surgeons. A fifteen minute old baby had a pacemaker surgically attached to her heart. It is pretty amazing what science can do to save the lives of tiny babies who have special needs. Keyota Cole is thirty-three years old, and is from Bakersfield, California. She has a form of congenital heart disease that is called Ebstein’s anomaly. This means that her tricuspid valve doesn’t work properly. The tricuspid is the valve that is between … Continue reading