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Social Engagement > Dating and Relationships
A Parent's Guide to Supporting Your Teen with Special Needs in Their First Relationships
...someone who sees them. The disability doesn't change that. What changes...for whatever else came up, and this one rarely does. Teaching...none of this has a template, and most parents find themselves...developmental disabilities, and they need repetition across...can report abuse precisely, and be understood. A child who only...
Research > Genetics
Chromosomal Microarray vs. Whole Genome Sequencing: Which Genetic Test Is Right for Your Child?
...find, what your insurance will cover, and how much uncertainty you can live with...or duplicated. It catches deletions and duplications as small as 50,000 base...delays, or unexplained intellectual disability. Whole exome sequencing (WES) reads...It's the most comprehensive option and catches everything WES does plus mutations...
Research > Funding
Private Foundations Funding Disability Research: A Guide for Advocates and Families
...intervention and pediatric care....are scarcer, and the grants they...to be smaller and more narrowly...chronically overlooks disability funding for identifiable...decisions on disability research. This...cluster around disability research the way...support dominates, and when federal budgets...foundation funding in disability research splits...condition-specific players and broad-scope innovators....
Parenting > Adulthood
How Job Coaches Help Young Adults with Disabilities Succeed in the Workplace
...or is about to, and both of you want...between wanting and doing feels enormous...your child has a disability that affects how...translate the culture, and help your young...them at no cost, and how job carving...with supervisors and coworkers, and...and coworkers, and how to navigate...more confident and capable. That timeline...varies by person and by job complexity,...
Global Insights > Healthcare
Medicaid for Working Families: Katie Beckett Waivers, Dual Coverage, and Options You Didn't Know Existed
...resets every January, and by February you're already...You're working full-time and still can't afford the...works: if your child has a disability or chronic condition that...based on their own income and assets, not yours. Your...Katie Beckett waivers, and those that do set their...set their own medical and functional eligibility...
Global Insights > Employment
Why More People with Disabilities Are Becoming Their Own Boss and How to Start
...gap between people with and without disabilities hasn't...accommodations processes, and workplaces designed without...are now over 1.8 million disability-owned businesses in the...entire ecosystem of funding and support that most families...what resources exist, and the concrete first steps...to change the system. And even when accommodations...
Global Insights > Employment
When (and How) to Tell an Employer About Your Disability: A Decision Guide
...disclose your disability at work. It's...when, to whom, and in what context....employer can ask, and what happens...where you work, and what legal...disclose a disability at any point...or if your disability affects your...you have a disability before making...can only ask disability-related questions...job-related and consistent...about health or disability before making...
Global Insights > Education
What U.S. Parents Can Learn from How Other Countries Educate Students with Disabilities
...do. Understanding how other countries structure disability education reveals which parts of the U.S. system...for Individual Negotiations. Finland, Sweden, and Norway don't have IEP equivalents in the way U.S....baseline is different. Every teacher completes disability pedagogy training as part of core certification....
Global Insights > Culture
Person-First or Identity-First? What Parents Should Know About Language in the Disability Community
...learning disability. The logic...first, the disability second. Then...capitalize the D and talk about..."person with a disability" entirely....wrong. The disability community...the 1980s and 1990s as...educational, and policy settings....emphasized that disability is one part...friend. The disability doesn't erase...systems, and therapy clinics...baked into disability rights law,...evolves, and the people...
Global Insights > Culture
Beyond Inspiration Porn: How to Talk to Your Child About Disability Representation in Movies and TV
...ending. Your child with a disability asks why the disabled...narrative, the magical cure, and the overwhelming likelihood...by someone without a disability. The question isn't whether...Is. The term comes from disability activist Stella Young,...with wants, conflicts, and agency. They're a narrative...the disabled character and replaced them with a motivational...
Financial > Grants
How to Get a USDA Section 504 Grant or Loan to Make Your Home Accessible
...you're rural, and Medicaid doesn't...to $10,000 and loans up to...modifications and health-and-safety...and health-and-safety repairs....member with a disability, and your...disability, and your income...bathrooms, and structural...program covers, and how to apply....Repair Loans and Grants. It...components: loans and grants. You...median income and you can't...or older AND unable to...hazards, and making the...
Legal > Government Benefits
Maryland Is Cutting $250 Million in Disability Services. Families Have Days to Push Back.
...the outcome. What the DDA Is and Who It Serves. The Developmental...for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. In...day programs, job coaching, and respite care. Unlike other Medicaid...entitlements. States control enrollment and funding. Maryland has faced chronic...enrolled. What the Senate Cut and What It Kept. The Senate's $126...