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Your child's occupational therapist pulls...pulls out paint, scissors, and modeling clay. You're paying for therapy,...advantage of art is disguise. A child who resists repetitive exercises...to warm up hand muscles. The child rolls, pinches, and pulls the...isolation, and whether the child uses both hands symmetrically....

Urban Angels, an elite UK child modeling agency, opens their books only twice a... Urban Angels, an elite UK child modeling agency, opens their books only twice a year in...she had competed on equal terms with every other child and succeeded." At 14 months old, Taya seems to...

...mentioned horses. Maybe it was your child's physical therapist, maybe another...movement is the treatment itself. Your child isn't learning to ride. The therapist...certified riding instructor teaches your child horsemanship: holding the reins, steering,...independence. The lessons are adapted to your child's disability, but the goal is riding...

...within minutes whether a required notice never went out or a legal timeline has already been missed, and that changes what you ask for next. If your child doesn't have an IEP or...

If your child uses a wheelchair, you have probably lived some version of this appointment:...number from a home scale, or you stepping on a scale twice, once holding your child and once without. On July 8, that stopped being a limitation families are...

...box, because who says no to a dog. Parents of a child with an IEP tend to read it twice, because they...they have learned that anything happening to their child during the school day is worth understanding before...distinction matters when a parent asks whether their child can have the...

...exercises, no closed door with your child behind it. There is your kitchen, your...scheduling convenience. Where your child's services happen is written into federal...maximum extent appropriate for each child. The definition is not left to interpretation....carries a paper trail. If any of your child's services will happen somewhere other...

If your child gets occupational therapy through the Oregon Health Plan, or your family relies on a prosthetic limb, a wheelchair seating evaluation, or an ABA program,...

...actual evidence, and most parents shopping for a product to help with their child's anxiety, sleep, or seizure activity have never been shown how to read one....margin, and 21 percent contained detectable THC that wasn't disclosed. For a child, an inaccurate label isn't a minor inconvenience. It's the difference between...

...and the district tells you it's doing everything it can. Until now, there's been no real way to check whether that's true beyond the walls of your child's school. This month, the federal Department of Education handed every family in the country a way to check anyway. On July 9, the department released...

...clinical language, that the lab found nothing to tell you. That page is one of the most misread documents in pediatric genetics. It does not say your child has no genetic cause. It says that the specific test that was ordered, read against the reference databases as they existed on the day it was interpreted,...

Most parents of young adults with disabilities have had the thought before they've admitted it out loud: my child is an adult now, and no one taught them what that means for their body, their relationships, or their right to say no. Schools often skip this topic...