Special Needs

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...designed to help people with aphasia and alexia (acquired reading disorder). It comes with three modes:...help people with aphasia and alexia (acquired reading disorder). It comes with three modes: Listen,...people with aphasia and alexia (acquired reading disorder). It comes with three modes: Listen, Read, or...

...before age 12 for ADHD and during early development for autism. That requirement is meant to distinguish neurodevelopmental conditions from those acquired later. The problem is that the behaviors used to identify those symptoms were selected because they disrupted classrooms, triggered teacher referrals,...

...dream of an all-terrain wheelchair, he didn't expect his wish to actually come true. But in a heartwarming act of generosity and ingenuity, Rober acquired a used Extreme X8 off-road wheelchair and spent months modifying it into Cash's ultimate ride. The "Cash Mobile": Awesome and Kid-Friendly. The base...

...frightened at that time. I was a Registered Nurse and yet I had missed this. I didn't know what to do. That was nine years ago. Since then I have acquired a lot of knowledge about special needs and have seen tremendous changes in my children. It's been a long journey full of hard work and perseverance,...

...news alleviated some of the stress and allowed me to focus on helping my child. You need to navigate through mazes of information that must first be acquired, then digested and finally stored. In a crisis situation we tend to look at the total picture, which is extremely overwhelming. Instead, we need to...

...Adjustment Act raised the age-of-onset limit from 26 to 46, opening eligibility to an estimated 6 million more Americans. That includes adults with acquired disabilities, veterans, and people diagnosed later in life who were previously excluded by a rule that never made sense for disabilities that don't...