Hearing Loss in Children: Screening, New Innovations Transform Young Lives

Seven-month-old Eva Sternoff of Bellevue has alert blue eyes and an infant-size hearing aid that fits on her right ear. It is neatly held in place by a pink headband. Eva was born with stage 3 microtia, a deformity of the outer ear that left her with hearing loss in one ear. Since Eva started weari

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Parenting Children with Special Needs

Not long after Rachel Trindle’s twin son Daniel was born with cerebral palsy, she noticed the friendships she’d cultivated with other parents just “withered up and died away.” After all, her life as a mom had changed dramatically. No longer could she connect with parents of typical children as she

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How to Find Child Care for Children with Special Needs

An interview with Marty Jacobs, MSW and Family Services Director at Child Care Resources What services does Child Care Resources provide? Child Care Resources is an agency that has been around for about 20 years and our mission is to make sure that all children have a great start in life. Our main

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Learning Disabilities: How to Advocate for Your Child

Andy, a bright middle schooler, loved math, but when it came to tests, his scores would end up in the low B/high C range, his calculations cramped, barely legible and taking up every inch of space on the paper. He understood the concepts, but Andy just couldn’t align the numbers neatly enough on the

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Could your child have a mental illness?

By Patti Skelton-McGougan, executive director of Youth Eastside Services.It seems every week we read or hear about another person who has lost touch with reality and responded with a violent act. So often it involves an adolescent or young adult. Details of the individual's life often reveal a patte

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Preschoolers learn about colors, play and differences

Three-year-old Harper Matsumoto found a good friend in her new preschool. She discovered that she and her friend both liked the color pink, they both liked to swing and they both liked baby dolls. Their differences, such as the fact that her new friend was disabled and couldn’t walk or talk, didn’t

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Acceptance key for children with disabilities

For most people, the circle is a symbol of belonging, of connections and clasped hands. For families whose children often don't fit in, however, circles can look more like fences. Any line leaves someone in and someone out. In this story, families share their view from the outside of some of those c

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Helping your ADHD teen

Got a kid? Then you’ve also got a built-in emotional Wi-Fi system. We telegraph our emotions to our kids. Brain scanning studies have demonstrated that our brains convey and “catch” emotions from one another all the time. The normal level of moodiness, emotional reactivity and risk taking that accom

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