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Racing Hearts and Changing Lives: The Thunderhill Race for Down Syndrome Awareness
...world of motorsports,...focus to heart, endurance,...thrill of competition...support Hearts of Joy...Hearts of Joy and,...Hearts of Joy and, by...beacon of hope for...life-saving heart surgeries....charity. Hearts of Joy:...Hearts of Joy: A...Hearts of Joy: A Lifeline...recipient of this noble...effort, Hearts of Joy,...Hearts of Joy, has...Hearts of Joy, has been...beacon of hope since...essential heart surgeries...100% of the pledges...spirit of unconditional...Power of Community...
News > Sports
Team USA Snowboarders Take the Gold at Special Olympic World Winter Games Austria 2017
...spotlight to all of these most deserving...all their displays of courage, abilities,...and celebrations of triumph for they deserve...good place within my heart, that I will struggle...the Austrian city of Schladming, in the...Schladming, in the state of Styria to cover the...snowboarding events of the Special Olympic...photo after photo of every athlete in both...
Medical > Cardiology
A Comprehensive Review on Congenital Heart Defects and the Critical Care Demanded in Special Needs Individuals
...Congenital Heart Defects:...Individuals. Heart health forms...foundations of our well-being,...congenital heart defects,...journey of understanding...congenital heart defects,...Nature of Congenital...Congenital Heart Defects...Congenital heart defects...functionality of the heart....of the heart. The range...that fetal heart health directly...replicas of individuals'...individuals' hearts for pre-surgery...necessitating open-heart surgery....
Research > Funding
Private Foundations Funding Disability Research: A Guide for Advocates and Families
...$22.7 million annually from 2014 to 2023. Only 2.3% of that went to lifespan or adulthood research. The...don't generate the donor urgency that cancer or heart disease do. Academic prestige doesn't cluster around...Application cycles open annually in the fall, with letters of intent...
News > Sports
Kendall Gretsch Won the First Gold at the 2026 Paralympics. She Chose This Sport After Para Triathlon Was Cut from Rio.
...ten targets down, 28.4 seconds ahead of the silver medalist. That margin doesn't...single missed target costs 150 meters of penalty skiing. She closed the Games...that para triathlon wouldn't be part of the program. The door she'd been aiming...accuracy under cardiovascular load. Your heart...
Therapies > Other
Deep Pressure Therapy and Weighted Blankets: What Parents of Children with Special Needs Should Know
...parasympathetic nervous system. This is the branch of your autonomic nervous system that slows...autonomic nervous system that slows your heart rate, lowers cortisol, and shifts your...lowers cortisol, and shifts your body out of fight-or-flight mode. When a child with...to the brain that trigger the release of serotonin and dopamine while reducing...
Special Needs > Down Syndrome
Heart Defects in Down Syndrome: What Every Parent Should Know
...mentioned a heart defect. You're...Approximately 50% of infants with...congenital heart defect. That...most common heart defects in...Most Common Heart Defects in...majority of congenital...congenital heart disease in...the center of the heart...center of the heart where the...a typical heart, these chambers...forcing the heart to work harder...approximately 40–45% of children with...who have heart defects. The...
Medical > Cardiology
Managing Your Child's Heart Health with Muscular Dystrophy: A Parent's Guide to Cardiomyopathy Monitoring
...leading cause of death in Duchenne...or malfunction of dystrophin, a protein...cells. In the heart, that damage is...detection buys time. Heart medications started...working. Why the Heart Is Affected. Dystrophin...contraction. The heart contracts about...stiffens. The heart enlarges to compensate,...show early signs of left ventricular...maintain normal heart function into their...
Medical > Cardiology
Helping Your Autistic Child Through Heart Tests: A Sensory-Friendly Approach to Echocardiograms and ECGs
...Sensory-Sensitive Children. An echocardiogram uses ultrasound to create images of the heart. The technician applies cold gel to the chest, then presses a handheld...Sensory-Sensitive Children. An echocardiogram uses ultrasound to create images of the heart. The technician applies cold gel to the chest, then presses a handheld transducer...
News > Sports
Jake Adicoff Wins His First Individual Paralympic Gold at Tesero as Oksana Masters Claims Her Fourth Cross-Country Title
...skiing's first events of these Games. The sport...program, with sprint-format heats and finals and every...for exactly this kind of compressed, single-session...team relay gold as part of the U.S. mixed squad....then he has built one of the strongest records...titles including a sweep of the 10km and 20km VI...demands short bursts of maximum speed rather...
News > Sports
What's on at the 2026 Winter Paralympics on March 10: Cross-Country Skiing Opens at Tesero
...races in Cortina. Patrick Halgren took standing silver racing under the name of his late twin brother. Andrew Kurka added a bronze in the sitting field,...biathlon opened the competition last week. Sprint racing is short-course: heats and finals across the sitting, standing, and visually impaired categories,...
News > Sports
2026 Winter Paralympics Day 2 Results: Delson and Elliott Win Silver, Gretsch Bronze in Biathlon Individual
Sunday at the 2026 Winter Paralympics was the kind of day that reminds you why depth matters. Kate Delson...That gap between expectation and result is part of what makes the Games worth watching. Snowboard Cross:...Paralympic final are different things. She ran clean heats across a course that started firm at the top and...