Monthly Archives: March 2014

Pill Swallowing Instructional Video

Pill Swallowing Instructional Video.

Whether it’s taking vitamins, nutritional supplements, or medicine, swallowing pills can be a challenge. Children often have difficulty swallowing tablets. For that matter, many adults have problems with this too.

As many medical professionals will tell you, most tablet medicines are meant to be swallowed whole. Crushing or chewing tablets can actually decrease a medicine’s effectiveness. The same holds true for vitamin and nutritional supplements. Blending tablets into other foods can often change the taste of the food, which makes unhappy kids.

This is why when a friend of ours sent us this video, we knew we had to share it with you. Produced by the Alberta Children’s Hospital, The New Method of Swallowing can help anyone learn how to swallow tablets, no matter what size. We recommend watching this video first and then with your kids to practice. They suggest working on the method for two weeks, which allows you and your children to get comfortable with the method.

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Special Parents Confidential Episode 16 Gigi’s Playhouse Part 1

Special Parents Confidential Episode 16 Gigi’s Playhouse

For many parents one of the challenges in raising a child with special needs is finding the right therapy for your child. Sometimes we get lucky and find the right kind of therapy right near where we live. Unfortunately for some people there’s nothing nearby that can help. Travel can be an option depending on distance, and financial ability.  But for many the only option is to simply wait and hope that the therapy will someday come to them.

Then there are those who don’t wait. They decide that they will do what it takes to bring the therapy to their area to help others as well as themselves. Our guest on this episode of Special Parents Confidential is someone who is doing that right now.

Mika Vuto is the mother of a young girl with Down Syndrome. Although there are therapies available in her town of Gainesville, Florida, there was one group she had heard about, Gigi’s Playhouse, that looked like an incredible asset that could help many people… because they offer their services for free. Unfortunately the closest Gigi’s Playhouse was in Atlanta, Georgia.

Finally Mika decided to open her own franchise of Gigi’s Playhouse in Gainesville. She talks to us in this episode about her journey from a mom looking for help to a community leader who wants to make a difference for her daughter and many other families with members affected with Down Syndrome. She also talks about the services Gigi’s Playhouse offer to children and parents.

The Gainesville Florida Gigi’s Playhouse is scheduled to open in 2015. You can find out more about them and learn how to make a contribution to help by visiting their Facebook Page. You can also learn about their progress on their blog.

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