This document collects the 12 monthly issues of Volume 31 of "Exceptional Parent," a magazine focused on practical advice for parents of children with disabilities. Most of the issues include a focus topic as well as articles on other issues, columns, reviews, and letters. These 12 issues concentrate on the following areas: (1) information resources on special disabilities, parent support, vocational rehabilitation, and Canadian organizations; (2) early childhood; (3) promising medical research; (4) mobility and wheelchair selection and financing; (5) recreation, sports, and play; (6) pearls of wisdom from parents and professionals and technology in daily living and education; (7) adolescents with disabilities and school to work options; (8) healthcare and treatments for seizures; (9) schools, camps, and residences for students with disabilities; (10) the serious business of play; (11) impressions of Maria Shriver; (12) family, friends, and community, and coping with disaster. (CR)