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Career > Discrimination
Disability-Based Termination: Recognizing Wrongful Discharge
...after requesting a standing desk. Or two months after disclosing your diabetes diagnosis. Or shortly after returning from medical leave. Your employer...requesting a standing desk. Or two months after disclosing your diabetes diagnosis. Or shortly after returning from medical leave. Your employer cited performance...
Special Needs > Diabetes
Managing Diabetes When Your Child Has Another Disability: A Dual Diagnosis Guide
...asking since diagnosis: how do I teach...feeling? Managing diabetes when your child...just standard diabetes care with extra...misread. Standard diabetes education assumes...treats the two diagnoses separately,...communication when diabetes intersects with...disability. Why Dual Diagnosis Diabetes Management...Dual Diagnosis Diabetes Management Is...1 and type 2 diabetes management rely...
Special Needs > Diabetes
Nick Jonas on Living with Type 1 Diabetes
...live with type 1 diabetes. The star of Broadway's...Really Trying was diagnosed with diabetes at...was diagnosed with diabetes at age 14 and is...“The thing about diabetes, type 1 . . . is...says living with diabetes is really about dealing...When he received his diagnosis, he was at an age...been in since my diagnosis.” For the full interview,...
Legal > Government Benefits
CMS Just Published the Rule That Defines Medicaid's 'Medically Frail' Exemption. Here's What Disability Families Need to Do Now.
...documented by a mental health provider. Substance use disorder: Active diagnosis or participation in treatment within the past 12 months. Intellectual,...limiting one or more major life activities, including but not limited to diabetes with complications, congestive heart failure, COPD, epilepsy, chronic kidney...
Health > Mental Health
Bullying Leading Cause of Depression
...subjects aged 8 to 17 years with a variety of diagnoses, including ADHD, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, sickle...of diagnoses, including ADHD, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, sickle cell disease, obesity, learning disability,...struggles with their developmental or medical diagnoses, bullying from peers was the number-one cause...
Special Needs > Diabetes
Your Child's 504 Plan for Diabetes: A Complete Guide for School Management
Your child was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes...diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes three weeks ago. You've...do. What a 504 Plan for Diabetes Covers. A 504 plan for...Covers. A 504 plan for diabetes isn't about classroom...specify: Who provides diabetes care (school nurse, trained...protect learning when diabetes management interrupts...
Special Needs > Autism Spectrum
Taming the Stigma of Autism
This year, more children will be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) than with...spectrum disorders (ASD) than with childhood cancer, diabetes, and pediatric AIDS combined. There is good news,...be developing differently or who have just been diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder often times...
Special Needs > Diabetes
I Was Diagnosed with Diabetes as a Teen
At 15, I was diagnosed with diabetes, leading to public scrutiny, depression, and a mindset shift for managing my life goals.
Parenting > General
The Magic Number 8
...seems to be our "magic number." My daughter was 8 years old when she was diagnosed. It took 8 years before I could honestly say she seems to be healing....Welcome to Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)!! Take RAD, mix in type-1 diabetes (insulin dependent), add a bunch of well-meaning adults, and you have a...
Therapies > Animal
Service Dog, Therapy Dog, or Emotional Support Animal: Which Is Right for Your Child?
...disabilities: Deep pressure therapy during meltdowns or anxiety episodes (autism, sensory processing disorder) Alerting to blood sugar drops (Type 1 diabetes) Interrupting self-injurious behavior (autism, developmental disabilities) Retrieving medication or emergency alert devices (epilepsy, cerebral palsy)...
Special Needs > Diabetes
CGM and Insulin Pump Technology: What Parents of Children with Diabetes Need to Know
The technology for managing type 1 diabetes has changed dramatically in the past five years. Where parents once relied on fingersticks multiple times a day and manual insulin injections, many...
Research > Funding
Where Research Dollars Go: Understanding Funding Gaps Across Disability Conditions
...search for new treatments, better therapies, or hopeful clinical trial results for your child's condition. The list is short. Then you search autism or diabetes and the volume is staggering. The gap reflects where research dollars go, and understanding that pattern is the first step toward changing it. How...