Special Needs Blog Week in Review – March 4 – 11, 2012

What did you miss this week? The Special Needs Blog Week in Review is a quick and easy way to catch up on everything that hit the blog in a given week. If you are short on time, you can skim through the titles, and pick out the ones that interest you the most. There are links that will take you directly to the full articles. The Special Needs Podcast Roundup went up on March 5, 2012. This week, I’d like to point out an episode of Raising Arizona Kids Magazine called “A conversation with Kaitlin MacKay”. She received a … Continue reading

Study Connects Snoring to Behavioral Problems

Another study has found a link between sleep-disordered breathing in young children and a higher risk of developing behavioral and emotional problems later on. This is the largest study that has focused on this topic. Could this connection be part of the reason why your child has ADHD? Sleep-disordered breathing is a phrase used to describe a wide variety of health issues that result in sleep related breathing abnormalities. This could include situations where a child chronically snores, engages in mouth-breathing (instead of through his nose while sleeping), or apnea. Children, and adults, who have sleep apnea seem to stop … Continue reading