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Lifestyle > Recreation
Bowling Leagues for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
...competitive sports for adults with intellectual disabilities. The equipment adapts...sports for adults with intellectual disabilities. The equipment adapts easily, the...leagues specifically for adults with disabilities. These programs emphasize social...needed. Not every adult with an intellectual disability wants the competitive...
Lifestyle > Recreation
Adapted Physical Education: What Schools Must Provide
...service under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), required when...education, including: Physical disabilities like cerebral palsy, spina bifida,...social demands prevent participation Intellectual disabilities that affect motor planning,...prevent participation Intellectual disabilities that affect motor planning, coordination,...
Lifestyle > Independence
Laundry Skills for Young Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
...Which pile goes first? How much soap? What buttons? For young adults with intellectual disabilities, laundry represents one of those threshold skills that marks...first? How much soap? What buttons? For young adults with intellectual disabilities, laundry represents one of those threshold skills that marks real independence....
Lifestyle > Independence
Money Management Skills for Teens with Intellectual Disabilities
Counting money, making change, budgeting basics, and safe ATM use build financial independence in teens with intellectual disabilities.
Legal > Government Benefits
Medicaid Waiver Waiting Lists: How to Join and What to Expect
...These are the services that allow people with disabilities to live at home instead of in institutional...multiple waivers targeting specific populations (intellectual disabilities, brain injury, elderly care). Start...targeting specific populations (intellectual disabilities, brain injury, elderly care). Start with your...
Financial > Financial Planning
Financial Planning for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: Supported Decision-Making for Money
When your child with an intellectual or developmental disability turns 18, you'll...(SDM) is a legal framework that lets adults with intellectual disabilities keep decision-making authority...framework that lets adults with intellectual disabilities keep decision-making authority while getting...
Career > Finding Jobs
Federal Government Hiring Programs for People with Disabilities: Schedule A Appointments
...For job seekers with disabilities, those layers can feel...with severe physical disabilities, psychiatric disabilities,...disabilities, psychiatric disabilities, or intellectual disabilities...psychiatric disabilities, or intellectual disabilities directly,...disabilities, or intellectual disabilities directly, bypassing...psychiatric disability, or an intellectual disability. Severe...
Legal > Healthcare
Healthcare Decision-Making Rights: From Consent to Guardianship Alternatives
...skip: guardianship isn't the only option. For many young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, it's not even the right option. There...only option. For many young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, it's not even the right option. There are legal tools that preserve...
Social Engagement > Dating and Relationships
Sexuality Education for People with Disabilities: Why It Matters and Where to Find It
People with disabilities have the same questions...curriculum, participants with intellectual and developmental disabilities...intellectual and developmental disabilities improved their understanding...education for people with disabilities isn't about encouraging...Without it, people with disabilities are more likely to experience...
Global Insights > Healthcare
The Healthcare Transition at 21: How to Prepare Your Child (and Yourself) for the Shift to Adult Care
...with neurodevelopmental disabilities transfer to adult care....adults who had pediatric disabilities. Fewer than half of children...expertise in neurodevelopmental disabilities don't exist in numbers that...autism, Down syndrome, or intellectual disabilities grew up seeing...syndrome, or intellectual disabilities grew up seeing pediatric...
Legal > Government Benefits
Maryland Is Cutting $250 Million in Disability Services. Families Have Days to Push Back.
...million from the Developmental Disabilities Administration (DDA) in fiscal 2027....Who It Serves. The Developmental Disabilities Administration runs Maryland's Medicaid...waiver programs for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities....intellectual and developmental disabilities. In fiscal 2025, 19,100 Marylanders...
Education > Other
Twice Exceptional Students: When Your Child Is Both Gifted and Has a Disability
...challenge and support. What Twice Exceptional Means. Twice exceptional means a child qualifies as both gifted and disabled. They have above-average intellectual ability in one or more areas AND a diagnosed disability that impacts learning or daily functioning. The disability can be a learning disability...