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Creating A Kid-Safe Pool Area: What Parents Often Overlook

As a loving parent with a residential swimming pool, you’ve likely given extensive thought to keeping your kids safe around the pool. Most parents think about pool safety in big terms. Fences go up. Rules are repeated out loud. Someone is always supposed to be watching.

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Why Speech-Language Pathology is One Of the Most Important Supports In Special Education

Speech-language pathology is the sort of support system that most people have no knowledge of unless they need it. In fact, SLPs work with wide segments of the population: children, young adults, and a significant number of senior citizens who have experienced strokes, memory loss, or other forms of cognitive decline.

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How Young Readers Discover Their Next Favorite Book

Finding the right book can feel like magic when you’re eight years old and standing in front of a library display. One cover grabs you. The title pulls you in. You open to the first page, and the world shifts. But that first connection, the one that happens before a single word gets read, starts with design choices made months before the book hits shelves.

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Creating Inclusive Reading Environments for Diverse Learners

Creating a strong reading curriculum isn’t that simple because it requires more than just helping your students learn. You also need to make sure that every child can walk into the room and feel like they belong there. Some learners need more time. Some do better with pictures.

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The World Is Full of Problems. Good.

Every crisis, every broken system, every thing going wrong in the world is also a job description. These are the people who get paid to show up when everything is falling apart.

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You Can Be a Vet or… Part 4 in a Series

Every child who loves animals gets pointed toward the same door. But the world built around animals is vast, varied, and full of careers most kids have never been told exist.

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The Science Behind Fidget Toys

Here’s what you need to know about the science behind fidget toys including the potential mental and physical health benefits they may provide.

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12 Fun Sensory Activities for Autistic Children

Children on the autism spectrum often have issues coping with everyday sensory stimuli that can make dealing with the world they live in difficult. Stimulating their senses through sensory play can help not only in this area, but to support development on social, cognitive, and numerous other levels.

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