Special needs

• 15 Scriptures Special Needs Parents Can Pray for Their Marriage

  

  Marriage can have plenty of challenges on its own. When you add in the extra challenges and stress and financial burden of a child or children with special needs, well, things can get even harder. ...

• Encouraging Scriptures For When Your Child Has A Speech Delay

  

  My younger son has a speech delay, my older son has apraxia --a neurological speech disorder that requires frequent and intensive speech therapy to learn to speak. He didn't say his first words until...

• 15 Scriptures To Pray For Your Special Needs Child

  

  As a special needs parent we learn to advocate for our children--with insurance companies, with doctors and specialists, with schools, within churches, and within the community. But one of the best w...

• What Charles Dickens Teaches Us About Disability in His Christmas Novellas

  

  Every December, my 7th grade students read A Christmas Carol . It's one of my favorite books I teach, there’s so much to learn and discuss and analyze from that book. This past weekend I decided to s...

• Great Books Featuring Young Characters With Special Needs

  

  I am a middle school English teacher who is always reading (and recommending to my students) books I think they'll enjoy. I am also the mother of two boys who both have special needs. I am drawn ...

• Embracing Joy No Matter What Our Circumstances Look Like

  

  I met Adria Wilkins last year at a local writing event. My first impression of her was that she was a smiley, joyful person. She radiates joy. We connected over the fact we were both writers AND that...

• The Power of Praying Scripture as a Special Needs Parent

  

  Both of my sons have multiple diagnoses, and I prayed fervently for God to miraculously heal my children. It didn't happen, and I wondered if I didn't have enough faith, or if God was truly a mountai...

• Embracing This Special Life

  

  There is a unique struggle to keep your faith in God's goodness and His plan while juggling the appointments, stress, grief, and loneliness that accompany the special needs parenting journey. A...

• Podcasts That Provide Hope For Special Needs Parents

  

  I love listening to podcasts. I just find them encouraging to listen to topics I'm interested in and want to grow in while I'm on the road, going for a walk, or folding the laundry. I've recently dis...

• 20 Scriptures For Special Needs Parents To Pray

  

  I've found turning to scripture and being reminded of God's character (and that even our favorite Bible heroes had their own struggles in their lives) to be very encouraging in all the challenges tha...

• Resources for Christian Special Needs Mothers

  

  Hiya! I'm Jenn. And I know all about the challenges and struggles on the special needs parenting journey because I have two beautiful boys who are precious and sweet and entertaining and complete ble...

• Encouragement for Special Needs Parents From Finding Nemo and Finding Dory

  

  I've watched Finding Nemo and Finding Dory multiple times, but it didn't hit me until recently that both Nemo's and Dory's parents are special needs parents and they have different approaches to rais...

• Spiritual Survival Guide for Christian Special Needs Mothers

  

  This special needs parenting journey is no joke. And being a Christian special needs parent adds in the struggle of trusting that God has a plan for your good and your child's good amidst all the wor...

• 4 Ways Churches Can Embrace Children with Special Needs

  

  Dear Fellow Church Members, I am the mother of not one, but two children with special needs. We have moved three times in the last five years, requiring us to find a new church family, and while it...

• A Manifesto for Christian Special Needs Mothers

  

  This special needs parenting journey is no joke. And being a Christian special needs parent adds the struggle of trusting that God has a plan for your good and your child's good amidst all the worrie...

• Essential Oils to Help Your Special Needs Child

  

  There are so many testimonies of people experiencing positive changes to their health or their children's health after using essential oils that I just had to give it a try for myself and for my two ...

• Recommended Books for the Christian Special Needs Parent In Need of Encouragement

  

  If you're a parent raising a child (or children) with special needs, you know the ache, the loneliness, the worry and fear that can become consuming if you let it. You can find yourself struggling wi...

• 5 Things I'm Thankful For As A Special Needs Parent

  

  Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. I just love the opportunity to gather with loved ones and reflect on all the things we are grateful for, realize how blessed we truly are, all while eatin...

• For the Special Needs Mama Who Feels She's Not Doing Enough

  

  One day, it felt like everything that could go wrong on a simple outing with my two boys with special needs, did go wrong. We experienced not one, not two, but three epic meltdowns. My older son was ...

• The Four Things Special Needs Parents Don't Want To Hear

  

  I'm a mama of two boys with over a dozen diagnoses between them. My life can easily be consumed by their needs, their therapy appointments, their diets, etc. My faith has struggled along this journey...

• Resources For Parents of a Child with Apraxia

  

  Apraxia of speech is a motor speech disorder that affects a child's ability to talk. A child with apraxia knows what they want to say, but cannot figure out how to get the lips, mouth, and tongue to ...

• Why Being a Special Needs Parent Isn't Something to Fear

  

  I overheard two expectant mamas talking in a Chick-fil-A play area. They sat together on one bench, while their 3 or 4 year-old boys played together, and they each were expecting a boy. I watched my ...

• Embracing Community as a Special Needs Parent

  

  Being a special needs parent can be a challenging and isolating journey. I was feeling lonely and anxious and depressed and desperate for a friend, someone to talk to who wasn't my husband. As huma...

• Four Ways To Embrace And Support Your Special Needs Child

  

  We love our children fiercely. Like Maya says in the second episode of Speechless, when told to not worry about her special needs son, she said "I can't. He's my whole world." I totally get...

• Embracing God's Love As A Special Needs Parent

  

  One day I was experiencing an unusually hard day. I was frustrated with the children who were being more whiny and disobedient than usual. My younger son had decided that biting his older brother's b...

• How You and Your Special Needs Child Are Blooming

  

  I went for a walk the other day, just soaking in God's creation unfurling after a long winter, when I happened upon a flower growing through a crack in the road. At first, I was sad for it. There w...

• Four Supplements to Help Your Child Embrace Health

  

  Disclaimer:  I am not a doctor or medical professional of any sort. I am merely a mother who was worried about both of my sons' development and spent hours researching supplements, taking my sons to ...