The Daily Monitor – Joan Salmon
Special needs means various difficulties (such as a physical, emotional, behavioural, or learning disability or impairment) that causes an individual to require additional or special services or accommodation. (more)
The Conversation – Lisa Nicole Sherwood, David Eager and Ruth Barker
A Sydney playground was closed earlier this year after children and adults suffered a spate of injuries including broken bones, burns and bruises on a giant tube-slide. The Hilltop Playground had been open for less than one month. The injuries were described as “horrific” and the media questioned “how the 30m-long, 14m-tall slide passed safety rules”. (more)
Business Insider – Kevin Loria
Kids need balance when it comes to how they spend their time. They also need sleep. Most don’t get enough of either, according to a study published September 27 in the journal The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. ” (more)
Motherly – Elizabeth Tenety
A new study in the The Journal of Pediatrics tested how responsive sleeping children were to different types of smoke alarms: a smoke alarm that made a traditional loud screeching sound, and a smoke alarm that played a recording of that child’s mother’s voice telling the child to “Wake up! Get out of bed! Leave the room!” (more)
The Register-Herald – Wendy Holdren
Getting kids more active and eliminating sugary drinks from their diets are the two most important ways to curb youth obesity in West Virginia, according to two West Virginia University doctors. (more)