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Service Dog, Therapy Dog, or Emotional Support Animal: Which Is Right for Your Child?
Therapies > Animal

Service Dog, Therapy Dog, or Emotional Support Animal: Which Is Right for Your Child?

By Emma Turner
You're researching animal support options for your child, and the terms keep overlapping:...overlapping: service dog, therapy dog, emotional support animal. They sound similar, but the differences...disorder) Alerting to blood sugar drops (Type 1 diabetes) Interrupting self-injurious behavior (autism,...
Section 504 Plans Explained: When Your Child Needs Support But Does Not Qualify for an IEP
Education > Accommodations

Section 504 Plans Explained: When Your Child Needs Support But Does Not Qualify for an IEP

By Benjamin Thompson
...special education services, but it does provide legally binding accommodations that schools are required to implement. For children with ADHD, anxiety, diabetes, dyslexia, and many other conditions, this is the law that was written for them. Understanding who qualifies, what the process looks like, and what...
Navigating Diabetes Care for Individuals with Special Needs
Special Needs > Diabetes

Navigating Diabetes Care for Individuals with Special Needs

By Grace Lewis
Understanding Diabetes and Special...Needs. Diabetes is a condition...getting diabetes. It is...signs of diabetes and how...signs of diabetes are feeling...it is diabetes. Taking...care of diabetes means making...team can support them in...managing diabetes. Healthy...Eating for Diabetes. Food plays...controlling diabetes. People...eating with diabetes are: Eat...difference in diabetes care. Families...needs and diabetes. Being...
Taming the Stigma of Autism
Special Needs > Autism Spectrum

Taming the Stigma of Autism

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
...spectrum disorders (ASD) than with childhood cancer, diabetes, and pediatric AIDS combined. There is good news,...perpetuating feelings of isolation. Granted there are support groups for parents and siblings of children with...herself to try to provide a sense of community, support and hope for families across the country in...
FDA Approves Afrezza Inhaled Insulin for Children with Diabetes
News > Technology

FDA Approves Afrezza Inhaled Insulin for Children with Diabetes

By Andrew Donovan
...with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. This is the first and...United States live with diabetes. The majority have type...majority have type 1 diabetes and require lifelong...Showed. The approval was supported by the Phase 3 INHALE-1...and adolescents with diabetes. 98% had type 1 diabetes,...diabetes. 98% had type 1 diabetes, 2% had type 2. Participants...
Disability-Based Termination: Recognizing Wrongful Discharge
Career > Discrimination

Disability-Based Termination: Recognizing Wrongful Discharge

By Oliver Smith
You were fired three weeks after requesting a standing desk. Or two months after disclosing your diabetes diagnosis. Or shortly after returning from medical leave. Your employer cited performance issues you'd never heard about before, or said the position...
Managing Diabetes When Your Child Has Another Disability: A Dual Diagnosis Guide
Special Needs > Diabetes

Managing Diabetes When Your Child Has Another Disability: A Dual Diagnosis Guide

By Grace Lewis
...they're feeling? Managing diabetes when your child also...disability isn't just standard diabetes care with extra steps....get misread. Standard diabetes education assumes verbal...and communication when diabetes intersects with another...disability. Why Dual Diagnosis Diabetes Management Is Different....Different. Type 1 and type 2 diabetes management rely heavily...
CGM and Insulin Pump Technology: What Parents of Children with Diabetes Need to Know
Special Needs > Diabetes

CGM and Insulin Pump Technology: What Parents of Children with Diabetes Need to Know

By Grace Lewis
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...
Your Child's 504 Plan for Diabetes: A Complete Guide for School Management
Special Needs > Diabetes

Your Child's 504 Plan for Diabetes: A Complete Guide for School Management

By Grace Lewis
...was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes three weeks ago. You've learned...they do. What a 504 Plan for Diabetes Covers. A 504 plan for diabetes...diabetes Covers. A 504 plan for diabetes isn't about classroom modifications....should specify: Who provides diabetes care (school nurse, trained...accommodations protect learning when diabetes management interrupts class...
Where Research Dollars Go: Understanding Funding Gaps Across Disability Conditions
Research > Funding

Where Research Dollars Go: Understanding Funding Gaps Across Disability Conditions

By Kelsey James
...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...
Successfully Transitioning Special Needs Kids
Parenting > Adulthood

Successfully Transitioning Special Needs Kids

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
...your child is a toddler or a teenager, transition is a word you need to know. As the parent of a teenager with asthma, allergies, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, epilepsy, hemophilia, or any other serious medical condition, your medical professionals have probably talked with you about "transition." But don't...
The IEP Process Explained by an Attorney
Education > Accommodations

The IEP Process Explained by an Attorney

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
...Mr. Knauf: Sure. The idea is that there is a certain population of kids who have what we generically call special needs. It could be anything from diabetes, to ADD, to autism, to orthopedic disabilities to blindness. Federal law requires that these kids, regardless of abilities or disabilities, are provided...

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