It’s not only academic skills that can suffer from “summer slide.” As every Houstonian knows, a summer heat wave—which can strike anytime from May to September—can make it a challenge just to walk to your car without collapsing. So if…
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Crushing the Summer Slide | Parenting Special Needs Magazine
School will be out for summer vacation again soon. Will your family travel and explore new places or stay home to relax and recharge? No matter how your family decides to spend the break from school, if you are like…
Summer Travel Tips for Families and People with Disabilities
Estimated Reading Time 3 minutes In our Lunch & Learn on August 10, we shared… Our Parenting Special Needs Magazine “Tech Tools to Get You Back to School Ready” Checking out Hotspots for access to free internet on-the-go “If I…
Library Hotspots and Lift Zones: Making the Internet Universally Accessible
Written By Katherine SwartsRead Time 3 Minutes After the initial COVID outbreak of 2020 shut down public gatherings, the disadvantages of living without reliable broadband internet became obvious. School kids in low-income families, cut off from in-person education and unable…
Summer Reading Apps
School-age children often look forward to summertime- watersports, playing outside, family vacations, and no school! It is great for children (and parents) to get a break from school routines and homework stress, but sometimes children can lose skills they learned…
Family Travel with a Disability
Written By Katherine SwartsRead Time 3 Minutes No exaggeration: Googling “family travel horror stories” will get you over 100 million results. If there’s a foolproof method for getting a whole household into the next state or through an airport without…
Preventing the Summer Slide in Low-Income Families
Summer is the season when children look forward to a long break from school—and parents dread the “summer slide,” aka academic skills getting flabby from lack of exercise. Well-off families often enroll their kids in programs that incorporate science, reading,…
Summer Slide and Learning Disabilities
Written By Katherine SwartsRead Time 3 Minutes When school vacation starts, so do parental worries about “summer slide”—the extended-time-off effect by which too many kids forget what they learned the previous year. And if your children have learning disabilities, the…
Tech Tools for a Healthy Summer Reset | Parenting Special Needs Magazine
Summertime is almost here! As parents and caregivers, we know that summer means less structured time for our children due to school breaks. This inevitably leads to more responsibilities for us as caregivers, which can also mean more stress. Taking…
BridgingApps Summer App List
Even though the traditional school year has ended, learning can continue year round. In fact, summer is a great time to practice skills gained from the previous school year, build a life-long love of reading and research and explore areas…