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Finding Hope and Support in the Face of Cancer
Special Needs > Cancer

Finding Hope and Support in the Face of Cancer

By James Peterson
Understanding Cancer's Impact....Cancer's Impact....Cancer's Impact. Cancer...Impact. Cancer affects...can impact individuals...backgrounds. A cancer diagnosis...stress. Cancer not...It's important...person's cancer...person's cancer journey...of cancer, treatment...circumstances. Physical and...Challenges. Cancer and...Common physical effects...emotional impact of cancer...of cancer can...It's normal...facing a cancer diagnosis....the physical and...of cancer. It's...It's important...needed. Impact on Family...Relationships. A cancer diagnosis...support. Cancer can...
How to Request Workplace Accommodations Under the ADA Without Risking Your Job
News > Advocacy

How to Request Workplace Accommodations Under the ADA Without Risking Your Job

By Amelia Harper
...denied or if you face retaliation afterward. Who's Covered Under the ADA. The ADA protects employees...probationary workers. A disability under the ADA is a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one...remission, like epilepsy, bipolar disorder, or cancer. You don't need a formal diagnosis to be covered....
Leveraging Adaptive Strategies for Cancer Survivors
Special Needs > Cancer

Leveraging Adaptive Strategies for Cancer Survivors

By Aiden Moore
Cancer survivors face unique...survivors cope with the physical, emotional, and social...adaptive strategies for cancer survivors is to prioritize...the time to focus on physical health by eating a...meaning to life. It's also important for...recovery is a process. It's normal to have good...and bad days, and it's okay to take things...
CMS Just Published the Rule That Defines Medicaid's 'Medically Frail' Exemption. Here's What Disability Families Need to Do Now.
Legal > Government Benefits

CMS Just Published the Rule That Defines Medicaid's 'Medically Frail' Exemption. Here's What Disability Families Need to Do Now.

By James Williams
...or face disenrollment. Here's what the rule says, what conditions...need to do before your state's work requirements start. What...Intellectual, developmental, or physical disability: Includes cerebral...autism spectrum disorder, and physical impairments requiring assistive...chronic kidney disease, and cancer. The rule also includes a sixth...
Regarded As Disabled: Discrimination Based on Perceived Disability
Career > Discrimination

Regarded As Disabled: Discrimination Based on Perceived Disability

By Oliver Smith
...employer treated you as if you did. That's discrimination the ADA prohibits under...discrimination the ADA prohibits under what's called the "regarded as" provision....ways. Most people know the first: a physical or mental impairment that substantially...an impairment, like someone who had cancer and is now in remission. The third prong...
Private Foundations Funding Disability Research: A Guide for Advocates and Families
Research > Funding

Private Foundations Funding Disability Research: A Guide for Advocates and Families

By Kelsey James
...publications across 360+ investigators. That's not supplemental support. That's critical...That's not supplemental support. That's critical infrastructure. For families...don't generate the donor urgency that cancer or heart disease do. Academic prestige...contract, entire research areas stall. Who's Funding What Right Now. Private foundation...
The Healthcare Transition at 21: How to Prepare Your Child (and Yourself) for the Shift to Adult Care
Global Insights > Healthcare

The Healthcare Transition at 21: How to Prepare Your Child (and Yourself) for the Shift to Adult Care

By Ivy Sullivan
...loses their pediatrician. That's expected. What isn't expected:...support. They're screened for cancer less often. They're less physically...about finding a new doctor. It's about entering a system that...isn't insurance or geography. It's this: adult providers with expertise...years before it arrives. Here's the timeline, the framework that...
Childhood Cancer Survivorship: Understanding Long-Term Effects and Disability Supports
Special Needs > Cancer

Childhood Cancer Survivorship: Understanding Long-Term Effects and Disability Supports

By Aiden Moore
Your child finished cancer treatment six months...For many childhood cancer survivors, they constitute...return to normal. It's a transition to a different...without a roadmap. Here's what you need to know...months or years after cancer treatment ends. They're...tracking childhood cancer survivors into adulthood...care. If your child's oncology team hasn't...
Supporting Siblings When a Child Has Cancer: A Family Guide
Special Needs > Cancer

Supporting Siblings When a Child Has Cancer: A Family Guide

By Aiden Moore
...diagnosed with cancer, siblings don't...siblings of childhood cancer survivors report...brother or sister's treatment. What's...treatment. What's less discussed...the child with cancer if intervention...real time. Here's how to support...parental worry. It's fundamentally different....because someone's nauseous. Small...the child with cancer in age-appropriate...
Returning to School After Childhood Cancer: What Families Need to Know
Special Needs > Cancer

Returning to School After Childhood Cancer: What Families Need to Know

By Aiden Moore
...child finished cancer treatment six...saved your child's life changed...ask for. What Cancer Treatment Does...some pediatric cancers directly involve...In targeting cancer cells, chemotherapy...compounds the impact. The result is..."chemobrain" or cancer-related cognitive...simultaneously. That's not effort or...attention. That's neurology. The...neurology. The brain's short-term storage...
Noah Elliott Raced Beijing with a Femur Bone Through His Skin. He's Calling Milan His Redemption Games.
News > Sports

Noah Elliott Raced Beijing with a Femur Bone Through His Skin. He's Calling Milan His Redemption Games.

By Brock Jefferson
...Noah Elliott was 16, several months past a bone cancer diagnosis that had cost him his left leg above the...is heading to his third Paralympics as the world's top-ranked male para snowboarder in his classification,...diagnosis of osteosarcoma, a rare and aggressive bone cancer. His left leg was amputated above the knee. Chemotherapy...
Health Scare Fatigue!
Health > Mental Health

Health Scare Fatigue!

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
Did you know that farting can cause cancer of the bowel? Or that using lipstick might send...love that I have to say! Red meat gives you colon cancer. Vegans, though, risk twisted colons: red meat causes...than the Louisiana swamplands. In fact maybe there's a correlation to be made between the rise of vegetarianism...

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