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Education > Accommodations
The Right to Read
...Carpinteria Street in 1990. As stereotypes die hard, Joan Esposito's journey to her...Street in 1990. As stereotypes die hard, Joan Esposito's journey to her present...lateness of her purpose. "I learned the hard way, at 44, that you can attain anything...sequence...what you call decoding. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't do it. Arithmetic...
Assistive Tech > Mobility
Manual Wheelchair Backup: Why Power Chair Users Still Need a Push Chair
Power wheelchairs fail. Batteries die. Airlines damage equipment. Here's why a manual backup chair isn't redundant but essential.
News > Advocacy
A Federal Appeals Court Just Ruled Florida Violated the ADA by Putting Children with Disabilities in Nursing Homes. Here's What Families Need to Know.
...Judge Jordan emphasized the stakes: "Medically vulnerable children...require around-the-clock care or they may sustain significant injuries and even die." The record included a case where a baby with a breathing tube died after his tracheostomy was dislodged when his mother briefly left the room. There...
Global Insights > Healthcare
The Healthcare Transition at 21: How to Prepare Your Child (and Yourself) for the Shift to Adult Care
...care. They smoke more than their peers without transition support. They're screened for cancer less often. They're less physically active, and they die younger. The cliff isn't just about finding a new doctor. It's about entering a system that wasn't designed for adults who had pediatric disabilities....
Special Needs > General Special Needs
Supporting Your Other Children: A Family Guide When One Child Has Special Needs
...month because you need help during a crisis, and he doesn't push back anymore. Your 8-year-old asks if she'll have to take care of her sister when you die. This is the documented reality of growing up as the sibling of a child with significant care needs, and it signals something specific: your other children...
Lifestyle > Relationships
When Parents Can No Longer Be There: A Guide for Adult Siblings Who Become Primary Caregivers
...Now it's not. The question isn't whether you'll take this on. The question is how. What This Transition Looks Like. When parents age, become ill, or die, someone has to become the primary decision-maker and caregiver for an adult with a disability who can't fully manage independently. Sometimes that person...
Health > Mental Health
Health Scare Fatigue!
...world where millions are spent by some research institute to tell us we may die sooner if we sit down more than 8 hours a day. I mean come on – who the hell...total certainty is that no-one gets out of this life alive. We are going to die! Ok? – get over it! Suck it up! – only not being born prevents it. Sadly this...
Special Needs > Down Syndrome
Abortion and Down Syndrome
...given a "broken" baby. I didn't want Nichole. Deep inside I wanted her to die. Can you believe that? I wanted my baby to die because I was scared. So scared....Deep inside I wanted her to die. Can you believe that? I wanted my baby to die because I was scared. So scared. I had more questions than I had answers,...
Health > Mental Health
Loneliness Increases Risk of Death
...Internal Medicine, older adults who are lonely are 45 percent more likely to die than their peers who are social. Additionally, a separate study shows that...that adults with heart disease who live alone are 25 percent more likely to die from the illness. According to researchers, one in seven Americans live...
Parenting > The Early Years
Managing Pregnancy When Baby Isn't Perfect
No one wants to talk about it, but sadly bad things happen during pregnancy. Sometimes babies die and sometimes babies are not born perfect with "10 little fingers and 10 little toes." Since no one talks about these things, going through a difficult...
Special Needs > Autism Spectrum
3 Anxiety-Busting Solutions for Autism
...presented as a nervous feeling in the stomach, sweating, heart palpitations, feelings of dread, feeling like you are having a heart attack or are going to die. It can just be a nagging feeling, and for children on the spectrum they usually do not have the vocabulary to describe any of these feelings, so they...
Legal > Government Benefits
Colorado Is About to Double Its 7-Year Waitlist for Disability Services. Here's What Families Can Do.
...ratio Starting with the next fiscal year, only one new person can enroll in the waiver for every two people who exit the program. People exit when they die, move out of state, or transition to other programs. This saves $6.5 million in year one and $18.7 million in year two. The math on this is direct. In...