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Special Needs > Dyslexia
Dyslexia and College: How Accommodations Change and What Students Need to Know
...textbooks, and a case manager...college, and you assume...identify and support students...students with disabilities. In college,...Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)...Act (ADA) and Section 504...support they need in college,...self-advocacy, and most students...Program (IEP), and provide services...counselors, and case managers...meetings and monitored...IEP meeting and signed off...process. ADA and Section 504...
Special Needs > Dyslexia
How to Request a School Evaluation for Dyslexia: Your Rights and the Step-by-Step Process
...Individuals with Disabilities Education Act...must follow, and if they refuse,...happens next, and what to do if...director of special education creates...legal timelines and provide documentation...protects both you and your child. Your...name, grade, and school A clear...eligible for special education services...information You don't need to diagnose....diagnose. You don't need to say "I think...
Social Engagement > Dating and Relationships
A Parent's Guide to Supporting Your Teen with Special Needs in Their First Relationships
...support structure they need to navigate it safely....whatever else came up, and this one rarely does....this has a template, and most parents find themselves...with developmental disabilities, and they need repetition...developmental disabilities, and they need repetition...disabilities, and they need repetition across contexts...report abuse precisely, and be understood. A child...
News > Research
When Studies Disagree: How to Make Sense of Conflicting Research as a Special Needs Parent
...found no significant difference between intensive and standard therapy schedules. Now what? This isn't...exactly as designed: testing ideas, refining methods, and slowly building toward answers. But parents don't...decades for scientific consensus. You have a child who needs decisions now. Here's how to navigate research that...
Global Insights > Healthcare
Medicaid for Working Families: Katie Beckett Waivers, Dual Coverage, and Options You Didn't Know Existed
...every January, and by February you're...working full-time and still can't afford...care your child needs. This is the...children with special health care needs,...special health care needs, according to...was a child who needed hospital-level...the Medically Needy. Here's how...their own income and assets, not yours....Beckett waivers, and those that do...their own medical and functional eligibility...
Global Insights > Healthcare
The Healthcare Transition at 21: How to Prepare Your Child (and Yourself) for the Shift to Adult Care
...turns 21 and loses their...the NIH, and the Agency...Research and Quality...neurodevelopmental disabilities transfer...active, and they die...pediatric disabilities. Fewer than...children with special healthcare...healthcare needs aged 12...Transition and MACPAC....neurodevelopmental disabilities don't exist...match the need. You can...works, and what to...intellectual disabilities grew up...population, and how to adjust...
Education > K-12
FAPE and LRE Explained: A Parent's Guide to Your Child's Rights Under IDEA
...arrive early in your special education journey:...education journey: FAPE and LRE. You'll see...you can ask for and what schools are...Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA),...federal law governing special education. Schools...their individual needs while being educated..."appropriate." And the crucial question...child's specific needs. What FAPE Means...
Education > K-12
When Your Child Refuses to Go to School: Understanding Anxiety-Based School Refusal
...they're in tears, and by the time the...school refusal. And for students with...for students with special needs, it's rarely...students with special needs, it's rarely about...intense emotional and physical distress...For students with disabilities, school refusal...School Refusal in Special Needs Students....Refusal in Special Needs Students. Sensory...
Education > Other
Charter Schools and Special Education: What Parents Need to Know
...schools and you have...handle special education....child's needs. Here's...what you need to know:...schools, and they're...federal special education...(Individuals with Disabilities Education...Act), and it requires...students with disabilities and provide...disabilities and provide...the law and the practice...rights and knowing...curriculum and governance,...governance, but special education...students with disabilities Implement...evaluations and develop...IEPs as needed Provide...
Therapies > Play
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT): What It Is and How It Helps Special Needs Families
...behavior through "connection" and "communication." PCIT isn't...strengthening your relationship and reducing challenging behaviors....through a one-way mirror and guiding every interaction...children with developmental disabilities. The model has two phases:...Child-Directed Interaction (CDI) and Parent-Directed Interaction...patterns that build warmth and attention: describing what...
Therapies > Occupational
Occupational Therapy for Children with Special Needs: School, Private, or Both?
...meals. You're wondering if you need private OT on top of school...the system: school-based OT and private clinic OT serve fundamentally...parts of your child's life, and for many families, both are...governed by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Under...School-based OT focuses on skills needed to participate in the classroom:...
Special Needs > Cancer
Childhood Cancer Survivorship: Understanding Long-Term Effects and Disability Supports
...they constitute disabilities requiring long-term...kind of medical and developmental management,...Here's what you need to know about recognizing...disability benefits, and building the support...system your survivor needs. What Late Effects...effects are mild and manageable. Others...Others are disabling and lifelong. A 2020...condition by age 45, and 80% had conditions...