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Lifestyle > Art
Art Therapy for Autism: Evidence-Based Benefits and Methods
The waitlist for speech therapy was nine months. Occupational...Art therapy uses structured creative activities with a trained therapist to help autistic...reached yet. Unlike free drawing at home, art therapy sessions follow a framework....framework. The therapist selects materials based on what the child needs to work on:...
Therapies > Speech
Speech-Based Activities for Kids with Apraxia
Speech-Based Activities...Speech-Based Activities...Speech-Based Activities to Do with...Apraxia at Home and in the...apraxia of speech (CAS), is...neurologically-based motor speech...neurologically-based motor speech disorder in...related to speech. It is a serious...childhood speech disorder best...and intense speech therapy conducted...a trained speech-language pathologist...can do at home to help your...
Therapies > Speech
Speech Therapy for Special Needs Children: A Complete Guide for Parents
...waiting becomes its own problem. Speech therapy can address articulation,...requires understanding what speech-language pathologists do and...system operates. When to Seek a Speech-Language Evaluation. Developmental...need a referral to contact a speech-language pathologist privately....pathologist privately. For school-based services, submit a written...
Parenting > Early Intervention
Home-Based or Clinic-Based Therapy: How to Choose What's Right for Your Child
...services happen. Home-based therapy...happen. Home-based therapy takes...daycare. Clinic-based therapy happens...are evidence-based. Both can...include your home, daycare,...doesn't mean home therapy is...reason clinic-based services are...request clinic-based services if...either way. How Home-Based Therapy...way. How Home-Based Therapy Works....comes to your home on a scheduled...environment. A speech therapist...
Assistive Tech > Software
Desktop AAC Software vs. Apps: When You Need More Than an iPad
...up in the classroom and at home before they show up in any evaluation....place to begin. What Tablet-Based AAC Gets Right. Apps like Proloquo2Go,...developers, and supported by speech-language pathologists who have...community's confidence in iPad-based AAC over the past fifteen years...circumstances where a tablet-based system runs into structural...
Education > Accommodations
Special Needs in Education
...schools are designed to give services to children based on their age. Babies and toddlers might receive...age. Babies and toddlers might receive care at home, through a daycare, or from a special school. School-age...Developmental delay Emotional disability Language or speech impairment Cognitive disability Learning disabilities...
Legal > Government Benefits
Federal Medicaid Cuts Are Threatening Arizona's IDD Home Care Program. Here's What 58,000 DDD Families Need to Do.
Arizona's Home and Community-Based...Home and Community-Based Services program through...lifts, occupational and speech therapy, or housing...physician visits, nursing home care, and some diagnostic...federal Medicaid funding. Home and Community-Based...Home and Community-Based Services, the programs...disabilities to live at home instead of in institutions,...
Legal > Government Benefits
Medicaid and CHIP Coverage Is Changing for Immigrant Families on October 1. Here's What Families With Disabled Members Need to Do Now.
...long-term services and supports, in-home personal care, occupational and speech...in-home personal care, occupational and speech therapy, durable medical equipment,...therapy, durable medical equipment, and home and community-based services waivers....medical equipment, and home and community-based services waivers. Emergency Medicaid...
Assistive Tech > Apps
Text-to-Speech Apps for Dyslexic Students by Grade Level
Your child's teacher sent home a list of "helpful apps for...directly. This guide sorts text-to-speech apps by grade level so you...is right now. What Text-to-Speech Does (and Doesn't Do). Text-to-speech...Does (and Doesn't Do). Text-to-speech reads digital text aloud. Your...literacy instruction: programs based on Orton-Gillingham or similar...
Legal > Housing
Zoning Laws and Group Homes: Understanding Local Restrictions
...zoning board says it's too close to another group home. You're told the property doesn't meet the definition...and the path from "they said no" to getting the home open is more navigable than most families realize...Housing Act prohibits discrimination in housing based on disability. That includes zoning decisions that...
News > Advocacy
Colorado Is Halving Paid Family Caregiver Hours. Ohio and Pennsylvania Are Next. What Families on Medicaid Waivers Need to Do Now.
...shifting more costs to states. Because home and community-based services are optional...states. Because home and community-based services are optional under federal...family member receives Medicaid-funded home care through a waiver program, here's...do right now. Why States Are Cutting Home Care First. Medicaid is jointly funded...
Legal > Housing
Group Home Rights Under the Fair Housing Act
You're considering a group home for your adult child, or they already live in one....Act makes it illegal to discriminate in housing based on disability. For group homes, this means local...discrimination. If neighbors petition to block a group home because they don't want "those people" in the neighborhood,...