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Global Insights > Healthcare
Navigating Healthcare for Children with Special Needs: Medical Homes, Care Coordination, and Insurance Strategies
...everything else. The American Academy of Pediatrics defines it as care that is accessible, continuous, comprehensive, family-centered, coordinated, compassionate, and culturally effective. In practical terms, it means your child has a primary care provider who knows the full picture, tracks all the specialists,...
Social Engagement > Dating and Relationships
Unlocking the Potential: A Roadmap to Building Healthy Relationships for Individuals with Special Needs
...learning and adaptation that holds distinct lessons for every individual. For individuals with special needs, navigating these complexities necessitates compassionate, informed support. Building a Foundation: Communication and Understanding Engagement begins with communication. Facilitating effective, empathetic...
News > Sports
Rafer Johnson Continues to Nurture Eunice Kennedy Shriver's Dream!
...able to capture the human spirit at its finest. Every photographer has different motivations for taking pictures. Freddie's happens be a sincere compassion for the very special individuals involved in the Special Olympics. I am dedicating this piece to the best of what he caught on camera. Thanks to...
Lifestyle > Recreation
Olympus Has Fallen – Movie Review
...hostage and their demands for his release could lead to World War III. These guys mean business. Led by Kang (Rick Yune), they have no mercy and no compassion for the innocent. They kill everyone. During the attack, the President's former Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Butler), now pushing pencils...
Parenting > School Years
Helping the Siblings of Children on the Spectrum
...learns to cope with the world in ways he simply cannot? Will she act as his protector? Will she feel resentment? Or will she develop a deep sense of compassion for all those who are different and must learn to live with their own individual challenges? The brothers and sisters of children on the spectrum...
Health > Mental Health
RADs and Cutting
...resorted to cutting herself? That rapidly turned into confusion — what the heck is wrong with her and why would somebody do this to herself? Then compassion took over and I felt her pain. Deep pain over missing her mother. The pain over being different because of her diabetes. The pain of having an arm...
Special Needs > Attention Deficit Disorders
Why can't my kid get organized!?: ADHD and Executive Functioning
...program modified to best support his strengths as well as his challenges? When teachers are made aware of a student's difficulties, typically there is compassion, as well as renewed direction...
Education > Accommodations
Where Is the Compassion in an IEP?
An IEP meeting lacked compassion, focusing on deficits without addressing the child's potential or strengths in learning differently.
Financial > Grants
Susie Bean Helps Families with Special Needs
...health insurance, and respite care. "It is apparent to me that these services are expensive and no one agency has enough funding, staff, knowledge, or compassion to help these families in need," she says. What can be done? Dr. Salek found a solution that combines her love of helping children and her love of...
Therapies > Physical
Helping Child with Special Needs Through Yoga
...YogaKids and spoke to Integral Yoga Magazine about her work with children. “Yoga increases children’s self-awareness, self-care, self-esteem and compassion and improves their overall health,” she said. “Yoga also improves a child’s posture, flexibility, strength, balance and coordination. Educational...
Parenting > Support Groups
Special Mothers
...persevere, even when exhausted. You smile, even when sad. You give and give, even when depleted. You encourage, even when less than hopeful. You are compassionate, even when stressed. You always have your child's back, even when others may have turned their backs on you. Yet, sometimes, it feels like...
Lifestyle > Art
How Art Builds Self-Esteem in Children with Learning Disabilities
...child who can't perform those tasks at grade level receives constant implicit feedback that they're falling short, even when teachers avoid explicit comparisons. By age eight or nine, many children with learning disabilities have internalized a belief that they can't succeed at hard things. Psychologists...