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Special Needs > Dyslexia
How Allergies Can Complicate Your Child's Dyslexia
...patients: Severe energy fluctuations in varying degrees, extreme fatigue, excessive sleepiness, or insomnia, unusual restlessness, general body ache. Pain...distress, including the sensation of dust in the lungs, post-nasal drip, or excessive or unusual sneezing, coughing, or tearing. Heart irregularities such as...
Health > Mental Health
What is Hyperactivity?
...attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. To define what is hyperactivity can be difficult because it is a very subjective behavior. What might seem excessive to one person might look completely normal to another person. Behaviors commonly associated with hyperactivity include: constant activity easily...
Special Needs > Muscular Dystrophy
The Problem of MD Chronic Joint Pain
...Even low dose Tylenol has recently been cited in studies in accidental overdose. Sometimes surgical intervention is sought especially in cases of excessive and painful spinal curvature, impingement syndrome, or simply when the pain of a joint seems to suggest no other options. Surgeries have their complications...
Special Needs > Visual Impairments
How Digital Devices Affect Your Child’s Eyes
Excessive use of digital devices can lead to eye strain and CVS in children; combat with breaks, exams, outdoor play, and proper setups.
Special Needs > Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular Dystrophy in 2026: What Families Need to Know About Gene Therapy and Daily Life
...RGX-202 is in the pipeline and expected around 2027. These are genuine advances, the biggest developments in DMD treatment in decades. They're also expensive, eligibility-restricted, and still unfolding in terms of long-term outcomes. And while gene therapy is making headlines, respiratory care milestones,...
Global Insights > Advocacy
Beyond the IEP: Legal Rights Parents of Children with Disabilities Should Know
...to schools and early intervention. It gives children the right to a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment, with extensive procedural protections for disputes. Parents learn this system by necessity. ADA is broader and applies to nearly every setting outside school. Title...
Special Needs > Speech and Communication Impairments
What Speech-Language Pathologists Actually Do: A Guide for Special Needs Families
...speech (motor planning difficulty that affects speech sequencing) all fall here. Language. Receptive language is understanding what others say. Expressive language is using words to communicate ideas. A child who struggles to follow multi-step directions, doesn't understand question forms, or can't...
News > Advocacy
How to Request Workplace Accommodations Under the ADA Without Risking Your Job
You're afraid that asking makes you visible in the wrong way. That it marks you as high-maintenance or expensive. That your manager will start looking for reasons to let you go, or that you'll be passed over for the promotion you've been working toward. So you...
Lifestyle > Recreation
Board Games That Build Skills: A Parent's Guide to Therapeutic Tabletop Play
...needs. Board games build social skills, turn-taking, emotional regulation, and flexible thinking: all the things occupational therapists target in expensive sessions. But most parents don't know which games work for which disabilities, how to modify the ones collecting dust in the closet, or why cooperative...
Lifestyle > Art
How Art Therapy Helps Children and Adults with Special Needs: Benefits, Methods, and Getting Started
...suggests it. A friend says their non-verbal daughter started communicating through drawing. But you don't know if it's legitimate clinical treatment, expensive recreational programming, or something parents can do at home with construction paper and markers. Art therapy isn't arts and crafts with therapeutic...
Legal > Housing
How to Request a Reasonable Accommodation from Your Landlord: A Step-by-Step Guide
...create an undue financial or administrative burden for the landlord and doesn't fundamentally alter the nature of the housing. Requests that are expensive,...
Legal > Discrimination
Your Employer Denied Your Accommodation Request: Know Your Rights and Next Steps
...need to perform your job, and what accommodations might work. Your employer cannot skip this step by simply denying your request, claiming it's too expensive, or asserting that "we don't do that here." What the interactive process looks like in practice: your employer asks clarifying questions about your...