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If your family's home care, respite hours, or day supports arrive through Medicaid, there is a piece of paper somewhere in your state capital with an expiration date...

...the same staff for a while. The purchase agreement is private, the new owner's plans are private, and in most states no one is required to tell the family anything at all. Illinois is close to changing that for its own residents. A bill passed by the General Assembly this spring and sent to Gov. JB Pritzker...

If your child gets occupational therapy through the Oregon Health Plan, or your family relies on a prosthetic limb, a wheelchair seating evaluation, or an ABA program, those services now appear by name on a state document about where...

...child's school. This month, the federal Department of Education handed every family in the country a way to check anyway. On July 9, the department released...produced this year's ratings. Robyn Linscott, director of education and family policy at The Arc of the...

...search with no idea what's negotiable. I've walked enough families through this same math to know the sticker price almost never reflects what the family ends up paying once every funding channel gets checked. Here's what animal-assisted therapy costs by modality, and where the money to cover it tends...

...in three places: your attention is finite, and right now nobody in your family, including you, has a clear picture of how it's being spent. Why Everyone...diagnosis doesn't just add a new task to your list. It reorganizes the whole family around a single center of gravity, and everyone else adjusts their orbit...

...a program coordinator before signing anything. Has Your Child Been Around This Specific Animal Before, or Just Animals in General? Comfort with the family cat doesn't predict comfort with an 1,100-pound horse, and comfort with a calm golden retriever at a friend's house doesn't predict comfort with a...

...pages mean. That document is the Individualized Family Service Plan, and once you know what belongs in...build around your specific child and your specific family before early intervention services can begin. Every...specific test result or observation behind it. 2. Family concerns, priorities, and resources. This...

...communication style. If the school hasn't invited your child by 14, ask them to. This is also the age to start tracking which adult service systems your family may need: Vocational Rehabilitation, the state developmental...

Ask a family managing Duchenne muscular dystrophy what they want from their child's cardiology team, and the answer is usually the same: a calendar. Not a general...

Every family that already owns a Windows laptop or an Office 365 subscription usually...landmark navigation that JAWS users have relied on for over a decade. For a family deciding whether a blind or low-vision student needs a paid screen reader...