Meet Terri Mauro at About.com
If you were to ask me to recommend one resource for parents of kids with special needs, Terri Mauro’s site at About.com would be it.
About Terri Mauro
According to About.com, Terri is the mother of “two teenagers with special needs: a 19-year-old with language-based learning disabilities and a 16-year-old with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, both adopted from Russia in 1994.” She’s also “the author of 50 Ways to Support Your Child’s Special Education and The Everything Parent’s Guide to Sensory Integration Disorder. Her website Mothers With Attitude, offering “humor and help for adoptive moms, special-needs moms, any old moms at all,” was recognized as a USA Today Hot Site and a Good Housekeeping Site of the Day.”
About.com: Special Needs Children
Terri is the The official name of Terri’s site is About.com: Special Needs Children. On the home page, you’ll find the following:
- Featured diagnosis
- Featured book
- Topics to browse
- Terri’s Special Children blog
- Discussion Topic
- Updated news & views
- Site of the day
Other Pages at Terri’s Site
The home page is only the tip of the ice berg. She also has tabs for pages about diagnosis, school and living with special needs. Every page is overflowing with practical, helpful links. For example, the diagnosis page has links to general topics such as working with the doctors and to specific illnesses or conditions such as Fragile X, autism or bipolar disorder. There’s even a place for you to share your story online.
Terri’s Newsletter
You can also sign up for Terri’s newsletter at. She also sends a nifty weekly rundown that organizes everything she’s posted during the week on one document. If you haven’t been to Terri’s site before, you’ll want to visit About.com: Special Needs Children today. Once you look it over, come back and leave a comment about what you discovered. My guess is, it’ll be good!
