Music can be used to teach children with special needs social, communication, reading and life skills. Music is an incredible power that bonds us all. In this video two children with diverse special needs work together to sing a White Stripes song. | Special Books by Special Kids

Parents ask me all the time… What’s the first thing I should teach my baby to help with their behavior? My answer is always the same: teach them to communicate. So much of the behavior we label as “challenging”—especially in babies, comes from a lack of communication. When kids don’t know how to get their needs met, they show us in other ways. Loud ways. Hard ways. But when we teach them that communication works? You’ve already won half the battle. I started teaching Grace sign language around 7