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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,...

...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...

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...

...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...

...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...

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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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 that didn't work fully due to complications at birth. The pain of being a teenager that doesn't feel she "fits in." Then...

...led by Margaret Ellis McKenna, M.D., researchers followed subjects aged 8 to 17 years with a variety of diagnoses, including ADHD, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, sickle cell disease, obesity, learning disability, autism spectrum disorder, and short stature. Caregivers completed screening questionnaires related...