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Don’t Wait to Communicate: Why Your Child Needs Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
What Can Be Done To Improve Parent-Teacher Communication?
Built-in time for communication and text messages could help grown-ups communicate better for the benefit of the student.
How to Raise Creative Children
Three rules that might make your child a future Nobel Prize winner
What to Know about Child Abuse
Although it's a mistake to become overprotective and make your child fearful, it is important to recognize the actual risks and familiarize yourself with the signs of abuse.
Teach Your Daughter How to Deal With Bullies
If your child is being bullied, she'll need some help learning how to stand up for herself and when to get help.
Why Can’t We Stop Child Abuse?
Government agencies have been trying to protect children for nearly two hundred years. Why have they failed?
How Child Abuse Primes the Brain for Future Mental Illness
A brain scan study pinpoints the changes associated with child abuse that may raise people's risk of depression, PTSD and addictions later in life.
Parent Teacher Communication: Dos and Don'ts
Setting up good parent-teacher communication is instrumental to your child's school success. Here's how to team up with your kid's teacher.
Prevention of Child Abuse
Ask the Doctor: Why is the Emergency Department referred to as a safe haven?
Prevent Child Abuse America
With Pinwheels for Prevention, the pinwheel has come to serve as the physical embodiment and reminder of the great childhoods we want for all children.
Is my special child being bullied?
Children with special needs are more likely to be targets of bullying, and in many cases aren’t equipped with the communication tools to respond to it, p...
A Parents’ Guide to Assertive Communication
Your child comes home from school after receiving a lower grade on a project than she expected. She feels that she did a great job and is angry and confused because she does not feel that she was …
What’s Going on Inside the Brain Of A Curious Child?
New research suggests that curiosity triggers chemical changes in the brain that help students better understand and retain information.
9 Tips for Successful Parent-Teacher Communication in the Digital Age
The digital world has changed almost everything we do, and parent-teacher communication is no exception. You probably have more access to your child’s teacher than you ever did—and certainly more than our parents did. More access and more communication can be a great thing, but it comes with some hazards too. New modes of …
How I Controlled Communication With My Narcissistic Mother
The five decisions you have to make to take control of communication.
Give Your Child the Tools to Recognize Sexual Abuse
Talk to kids about their bodies and empower them to speak out.
Is Your Child an Ambivert? Performing Arts for a Winning Personality
Become an Ambivert through Performing Arts Training!
Why school leaders should consider flipping parent communication
Flipping parent communication by offering videos explaining important topics like the Common Core or highlighting a typical day at school is one way school leaders can help engage parents, elementary principal Peter DeWitt writes in this blog post. "Flipping communication allows them to see what they missed. It helps them feel a little more engaged even though they had to work," he writes.
How Play Helps Children Develop 5 Different Types of Communication
Photo by John Wilkinson (Flickr)<br>While listening to my girls play together the other afternoon, I realized how much they communicate as they have fun. They talked, laughed, argued, and reconciled as they built block castles, colored pictures, and kicked the soccer ball together. This afternoon of communication prompted me to think of all the ways our kids communicate, and I realized that play is very…
