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EDITION
IN THIS ISSUE
8 News & Notes
12-16 Play Time
Strengthen skills and foster fun
with these products
12
Local author helps other families
explore feelings in picture book
22 Creative
Collaboration
Adaptive clothing for children gets
fashion flair
26 Managing Autism
18
MitoSpectra helps autistic children
with mitochondrial dysfunction thrive
30 Screen Time
The pros and cons of social media
and special needs children
32 Making Children
Whole Again
Pediatric prosthetics elicit questions
and concern first, rewards for a lifetime
22
36 Club LOU
Ridgewood’s Matthew Mandeli sets up club
for the developmentally disabled
40 Resource Guide
52 Professional
Business Directory
ON THE COVER Julie Leavitt Wolfe with her daughter, Sydney, and son, Ryan
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANNE-MARIE CARUSO
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TOYS & SIBLINGS: ANNE-MARIE CARUSO; CLOTHING: TOMMY HILFIGER: COURTESY OF RICHARD CORMAN
18 Sibling Story