Back toSchool 15
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Travel Tips For Families Of Children With Special Needs BY ALISON GILBERT
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST
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amily travel involves significant planning whether it be for a week-long trip or a short getaway. When traveling with a child who has special needs, significantly more preparation is often necessary. Here are some useful travel tips for a last minute vacation:
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Based on past travel experiences and known stressors, try to anticipate potential problems. Parents may want to spend time creating specific solutions to these challenges as well as enlisting targeted coping strategies. For example, if you know that your child has a strong preference for seating when dining out, prepare by calling ahead and/or by creating relevant coping strategies like drawing materials.
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Prepare a detailed itinerary. For most children with special
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needs, predictability is an essential component to a successful outing. Prepare a written itinerary with photos and simple descriptions of the places you might visit. Review the itinerary prior to the trip and each morning that you are traveling.
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Pack familiar items. Bringing items from home to your destination can allow your child to experience a sense of continuity as you travel from one setting to another and, therefore, help to ease the transition to a new place. Encourage your child to bring personal items like his/her own pillow and blanket as well as a few
familiar toys. Allow your child to arrange his/her part of the hotel or room you are staying in with his/ her own items to help create a more secure and familiar environment.
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Create a reasonable transportation schedule. If traveling by car, anticipate how much driving you will do between stops, and plan to stop at multiple locations. Consider the environment within the car. Is it well organized? Does your child have enough personal space? Does your child need a familiar object with him or her during the drive? Does your child have a variety of activities to keep him or her engaged? Is the temperature in the car comfortable?
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Plane travel requires special considerations. If your child has not yet flown and/or describes anxiety related to plane travel you will want to help familiarize him or her with the sights, sounds and feelings associated with it. Autism Speaks and JetBlue have developed
the Blue Horizons program for first time travelers and for those with special needs who have significant concerns about air travel.
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Get a good night’s sleep. A good night’s sleep can go a long way towards decreasing irritability or anxiety and increasing the ability to focus and engage in new and interesting activities. Consider bringing familiar night time books along with you on your trip. Overall, anticipating potential challenges and careful planning can help to decrease stress and increase enjoyment during family vacations, especially when traveling with a special needs child. Alison Gilbert, PhD is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist. She is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine with a certificate in Autism Spectrum Disorders from U.C. Davis.
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Back To School Necessities Planner
BY KELLY MARTIN
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ith the new school year approaching, so does the impending back-to-school shopping. There are many supplies that could be recycled from last year, like notebooks with only a few used pages, unopened packs of pens and craft supplies like crayons or markers. However, there are a few essential staples that should be purchased new every year for the best chance at a productive start to the new year.
Sneakers
Backpack
Payless ($9.99-$19.99) Besides the obvious need of new shoes as your child’s feet grow, new shoes are an important buy because sneakers tend to get worn out quickly between recess, gym class and the typical “kid stuff.” Well-fitting, comfortable shoes are important as they can help prevent injuries, as well as cut down on distractions caused by feet in pain. Girls can kick the school year off with these gray and pink Zoe & Zac sneakers ($9.99) and boys can get a running start with Champion’s Gusto Cross Trainer ($19.99).
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A new backpack helps to start the new year on the right foot. By the end of the previous year, backpacks tend to get messy with crumbs, old papers and the unfortunate piece of fruit that always seems to make its way to the bottom of the bag. Head to Target and pick up a backpack like this one, everyone’s favorite sister duo from Disney’s Frozen or other colorful options.
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Pencils and pens tend to get “borrowed” and then never returned throughout the year. To help avoid this problem, a pencil holder cannot only remind a student to bring pencils to class and make sure they are prepared and do not need to borrow, but it will also help them keep track of how many they have left. These colorful pencil pouches from Staples are cute and easy to see how many writing utensils are available.
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Target starting at 50 cents Folders that can be assigned to certain subjects are a helpful buy. They teach students great organziational skills and assigning color to each subject makes it easy for them to locate their work. Be sure to stock up on dozens of colors and designs at Target as your child wlill no doubt need more than a few to get through the year. A helpful hint: folders with bottom pockets are less likely to cause spillage.
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Fluctuating temperatures between classrooms can be a real problem in many schools, so send your child to school equipped with a sweatshirt or sweater that can easily be stored in a bag or locker. Keep cozy in this fleece full-zip style from Kohl’s. Just be sure to write your child’s name on the tag in marker to avoid ending up in the lost and found box.
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Since they usually only contain one school year each, a new planner or agenda is essential for a new school year. Not only do they help keep track of assignments and tests but they can also help remind students of practices, social events or study groups. With so many beautiful and creative options to choose from at Barnes & Noble, it will be hard to pick one, but this 2019 Blue Agate Weekly Flex Cover Planner is a good start.
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How-to Pack A Healthy Lunch BY ZIPORA EINAV
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t won’t be long before kids will be heading back to school and for the parents to begin packing their lunches again. Organic food is expensive and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches only work for so long. It’s easy to stick to a budget on school lunches if you plan and prepare the meals at home in advance. Planning a menu and shopping with a list each week helps to manage your budget because you only buy what is needed rather than going to the store each day. And if the kids are old enough, let them help you prepare their lunches. That is an excellent time to have discussions with your children about nutrition. For a healthier snack, offer baked vegetable chips or sweet potato fries, rather than buying packaged chips. Make home-baked chicken fingers or bake chicken to create a sandwich on whole wheat bread and add lettuce. Don’t forget to include seasonal fruit such as apples, pears and strawberries
in your child’s lunch as well. Does your child have a favorite vegetable like carrot sticks or celery? You can include a hummus dip—which is offered plain or comes in several flavors—and you can add whole wheat crackers such as Wheat Thins or Breton. Eating healthy does not need to be expensive and preparing the foods can be easier than most people think if they just prepare in advance and shop for healthy groceries. Chef Zipora Einav (www.chefzipora. com) is an accomplished private chef who has cooked for some of Hollywood’s most notable celebrities and for professional athletes. She is the author of Recipe for a Delicious Life, which includes recipes, a classical music CD titled Music for a Delicious Life, and her anecdotes and adventures while traveling the world as a private chef. She founded her company, Chef Zipora Enterprise—Comfort Food in Harmony with Your Health—to improve people’s lives by empowering them to eat well and embrace a healthy lifestyle.
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Successful Ways Of Helping Children Cope With Anxiety BY JEREMY SKOW specialsections@anton mediagroup.com
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hen children are chronically anxious, parents who do not want their child to suffer often inadvertently exacerbate their child’s anxiety. As parents, we try to anticipate the danger our children can get into and divert them from it. We try to anticipate our child’s fears and protect them. However, if we continuously shelter them from anxiety how could they ever learn to cope with it? Not all triggers can be avoided. It is important to recognize that anxiety, or worry, has a purpose. It is a protection mechanism that helps us survive danger. It is something everyone experiences at some point. There are instances, however, when our system sets off false alarms. We may worry even when it is not certain that there is something to worry about. While there is no one-size-fits-all solution for anxiety, there are numerous research-based techniques that can help manage it.
Change ‘What If’ Thinking To ‘What Is’ Thinking Anxiety usually focuses on things that may or may not happen in the future. It typically focuses on ‘what if’: “What if my actions today costs me all of my friends?” “What if the girls won’t let me sit with them in the cafeteria?” Encourage our son or daughter to let go of ‘what if’ and focus on ‘what is’. Research shows that focusing on the present can help alleviate stress.
Confront Stressors Do not strive to remove or avoid stressors that trigger anxiety. Avoidance of anxiety-provoking situations maintains the anxiety. Facing/ exposure to his or her fears will teach them that anxiety reduces naturally over time. This is referred to as the “habituation curve”. Our anxiety level may never drop to zero, or as quickly as we would like, but it will drop and that is how they will overcome their fears. Help our son or daughter build up the courage and strength to face their stressors by validating
their emotions. Demonstrate that we understand their experience and are listening to what they have to say.
Teach Problem Solving Skills If our child is capable of generating their own solutions, let them. If they can’t, we can generate some potential solutions for them and then ask our child to pick the solution that he or she thinks would work best. Our goal should not be to solve their problems for them.
Model How To Cope With Anxiety
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Children look to their parents to determine how to react in situations. Our child will often do what we do. If we avoid anxiety-provoking situations, so will our child. Similarly, if they see us face our fears, they will too. Stay calm. Let them hear or see us managing our own stress calmly, tolerating it and feeling good about getting through it. Express confidence that they will be
able to manage whatever anxiety they have. Byproducts of the coping skills we teach them will include increased confidence, greater independence and lessened anxiety that may even fall away over time. Jeremy Skow, LMHC, MBA maintains a private practice in Great Neck, NY. Contact him at 516-322-9133, jskow@lmhcny.com or visit www. mentalhealthcounselingny.com.
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the importance of technological development, specifically coding, in today’s world. Whether it’s an app or animation, I can’t wait to see what these kids come up with next.” Founded by Hansel Lynn and incubated with the help of his best friend, Wayne Teng, theCoderSchool was built with the desire to provide children aged 7 to 18 years with a welcoming environment to develop
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