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Your Guide to Planning a Vacation for Special Needs Kids

If you’re the parent to a child with special needs (like me) travel takes on a whole different dimension. My seven-year-old daughter Jo Jo has Down syndrome, and little things most other families take for granted — like a daytime stroll to the beach from the hotel — can be a major challenge. Whether it was just because it was too hard for her (kids with Down syndrome have low muscle tone) or she was just perfecting her Princess act, I ended up schlepping her on my back for most of our vacation