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Health > Treatment
Getting Your Child to Take Medicine: Evidence-Based Strategies That Actually Work
...For families with children who have disabilities, particularly those with autism or sensory sensitivities, getting medicine into your child can become a...getting medicine into your child can become a daily battle that impacts treatment outcomes and family stress levels. The stakes aren't small. Research shows...
Therapies > Music
Music Therapy for Special Needs Children: What Parents Should Know
...goal-directed and measurable. They're designed around your child's IEP or treatment plan, not around learning to play an instrument for performance. Here's...They might use call-and-response singing to help a nonverbal child with autism practice turn-taking and joint attention. They might use songwriting to...
Special Needs > Diabetes
Managing Diabetes When Your Child Has Another Disability: A Dual Diagnosis Guide
...and sent them to the nurse, but your child has autism, and irritability is also how they respond to fluorescent...them to an adult and cooperate with testing and treatment. That model assumes verbal communication, symptom...the need for action. When your child also has autism, intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, or another...
Special Needs > Attention Deficit Disorders
When ADHD Isn't Alone: Understanding Co-Occurring Anxiety, Dyslexia, and Learning Differences
Your child has an ADHD diagnosis. You've started treatment. But something still doesn't add up. Medication...defiant disorder, depression, sleep disorders, and autism spectrum conditions also appear frequently alongside...ask for in evaluation and what you prioritize in treatment. Why These Conditions Overlap. ADHD doesn't cause...
Special Needs > Asperger Syndrome
Employment and Asperger Syndrome: Workplace Rights, Accommodations, and Strategies for Success
...for you. Your Legal Rights Under the ADA. The ADA protects adults with autism spectrum disorder, including Asperger syndrome, from workplace discrimination....adjustments that enable you to perform your job. They aren't perks or special treatment. They're structural changes that remove barriers unrelated to your actual...
Research > Genetics
Understanding Genetic Testing for Autism, Cerebral Palsy, and Developmental Disabilities: A Parent's Guide
Your child has a diagnosis. Autism, cerebral palsy, global developmental...underlying genetic cause that could affect treatment decisions, connect you to clinical...After a Diagnosis. A diagnosis like autism or cerebral palsy describes your child's...is identified in fewer than 25% of autism cases, around 32% of cerebral palsy...
Research > Funding
Where Research Dollars Go: Understanding Funding Gaps Across Disability Conditions
You search for new treatments, better therapies, or hopeful clinical trial results...condition. The list is short. Then you search autism or diabetes and the volume is staggering. The gap...budget, priorities, and decision-making process. Autism research receives approximately $296 million per...
Research > Drug Development
The Drug Development Pipeline for Special Needs: What Parents Need to Know About How Treatments Go from Lab to FDA Approval
You see a headline about a promising autism drug entering Phase 2 trials, and you wonder if this could be the treatment...autism drug entering Phase 2 trials, and you wonder if this could be the treatment your child needs. But Phase 2 doesn't mean it's available next month. It...
Research > Clinical Trials
Why Children with Disabilities Are Underrepresented in Clinical Trials
...population it's meant to serve, and treatments that work less effectively in real-world...complicate data collection. A child with autism who also has epilepsy. A child with...follow the same pattern. By the time a treatment reaches approval, it has been tested...will use it. That's why FDA-approved treatments sometimes work differently in...
Research > Clinical Trials
How to Find and Evaluate Clinical Trials for Your Child's Disability
...trial that might help your child. Or you've been told there's no approved treatment yet, but research is happening. Either way, you're trying to figure out...Search filters: Condition or disease: Enter the specific diagnosis: autism spectrum disorder, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome. The database uses medical...
News > Research
How to Read Research About Special Needs: A Guide for Parents Who Aren't Scientists
You're scrolling through a parent group and someone posts a study: "New research proves this therapy works for autism." The link goes to a blog summarizing a press release. The comments fill with hope, questions, and plans to start immediately. You want to believe...
Medical > Neurology
Executive Function in Neurodevelopmental Conditions: The Brain System That Connects ADHD, Autism, and Learning Challenges
...pediatrician talks about ADHD and executive function. The neurologist mentions autism and cognitive rigidity. The school psychologist flags working memory deficits...years: executive function delay is transdiagnostic. It appears across ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, and specific learning disabilities with a moderate effect...