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What to Expect at Your Child's First Speech Therapy Appointment
...documents saves time and gives the therapist context before they meet your child. Bring: Medical history: Any records related to hearing tests, ear infections, or developmental screenings Developmental milestones: When your child first babbled, said first words, started combining words. If you don't remember...
Special Needs > Respiratory Health
Respiratory Health for Children with Disabilities: A Complete Family Guide
...retractions (skin pulling in between the ribs), faster breathing, or fatigue after minimal exertion. Triggers vary, but common ones include respiratory infections, allergens, exercise, cold air, and strong emotions. For children with sensory processing differences, stress and anxiety can be significant triggers...
Special Needs > Cystic Fibrosis
Cystic Fibrosis Day-to-Day Management: Airway Clearance, Nutrition, and School
...protein function, creating an environment where bacteria thrive and lung infections take hold. Clearing that mucus twice daily reduces infection risk and...and lung infections take hold. Clearing that mucus twice daily reduces infection risk and preserves lung function over time. The standard is 20 to 30 minutes...
Medical > Gastroenterology
Tube Feeding at Home: A Parent's Guide to Preventing and Managing G-Tube Complications
...intellectual disability who are tube-fed report complications. The most frequent ones are nausea and vomiting, constipation, diarrhea, stoma site infections or granulation tissue, formula leakage around the tube, tube dislodgement, and aspiration. Some of these you can manage with adjustments to feeding...
Special Needs > Cystic Fibrosis
Exploring the Advancements in Cystic Fibrosis Treatments
...sticky. Common symptoms of CF include coughing, trouble breathing, lung infections, poor growth, and greasy stools. To learn more about the symptoms of CF,...with medicines to open the airways Antibiotics to treat and prevent lung infections Pancreatic enzymes to...
Special Needs > Respiratory Health
Navigating Respiratory Health for Children with Special Needs
...overall health, development, and quality of life. Symptoms to watch for include coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, and frequent respiratory infections. Early diagnosis and proper management are key. Creating an Action Plan. Developing a personalized respiratory care plan with your child's doctor...
Special Needs > Cystic Fibrosis
Unlocking the Potential of Cystic Fibrosis Treatments
...pancreas. The thick mucus clogs the lungs and leads to breathing problems and infections. The mucus also blocks ducts in the pancreas. This stops digestive enzymes...infancy and childhood. They include coughing, wheezing, frequent lung infections, poor growth, and greasy stools. Treating Cystic Fibrosis. There is no...
Special Needs > Hearing Impairments
Understanding Hearing Impairments and Beyond
...sensorineural (damage to the inner ear or auditory nerve), and mixed (a combination of both). The causes can include aging, exposure to loud noise, infections, genetics, and certain medications. Symptoms of hearing loss may include difficulty understanding speech, frequently asking others to repeat themselves,...
Special Needs > Respiratory Health
Living with Respiratory Health Conditions Challenges and Triumphs
...lungs. Other respiratory conditions include pneumonia, which is a lung infection, and lung cancer. All of these diseases can have a big impact on daily...treatment. Ongoing breathing problems also make people more likely to get lung infections. Having a respiratory condition can be stressful. It may be hard to work,...
Health > Treatment
Is There a New Drug for Cerebral Palsy?
...of inflammation in the child's brain; this inflammation stems from an infection during pregnancy. In a recent research study, rabbits with similar characteristics...could be a very promising treatment for brain damage caused by prenatal infections. There have been no human clinical trials or an examination of side effects....
Health > Alternative Medicine
Alternative Therapies: Inherent Risks and Effectiveness #1: Hyperbaric Oxygen
...home with an increased frequency. It is clear from the medical literature that hyperbaric oxygen therapy has a significant therapeutic effect in infections of limbs, in which anaerobic bacteria is found. Specifically, in gangrene. It also has a significant role in the treatment of diving encephalopathies...
Special Needs > Respiratory Health
What Triggers Asthma?
...not affect another person. Triggers are often things that impact allergies, such as: dust mites animals cockroaches mold pollen viral infections air pollutants Other non-allergy related triggers include: smoke chemical fumes exercise cold air intense emotions Asthma attacks...