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Assistive Tech > Hardware
AAC Devices and Apps: How to Choose Speech-Generating Technology
...essential for your child's communication development. The price spread creates decision...matching technology to your child's motor skills, cognitive level, and the environments...hardware designed to survive drops, spills, and daily transport. Battery life...spills, and daily transport. Battery life exceeds consumer tablets. Repair is...
Special Needs > Down Syndrome
Preparing Your Teen with Down Syndrome for Adult Life: A Transition Planning Guide
...about the future, but because "adult life" for someone with DS doesn't follow...employment, and independent living skills. What the law doesn't provide is a...employment objectives, and daily living skills training designed to help your child...agencies such as vocational rehab, developmental disabilities services, and Medicaid...
News > Employment
How to Get a Federal Job with a Disability: A Complete Guide to Schedule A Hiring
...directly for positions that match your skills. Here's how it works and how to use...Intellectual disabilities, including developmental disabilities Severe physical disabilities:...substantially limit one or more major life activities Psychiatric disabilities:...condition substantially limits a major life activity like walking, seeing, hearing,...
Lifestyle > Independence
Building Independence: A Life Skills Roadmap for Children with Special Needs
...over their next developmental step. Independence...five essential skill areas and four...areas and four developmental stages, from...adulthood. The Five Skill Areas That Build...Independence isn't one skill. It's a cluster...across daily life. Families who...social navigation skills that determine...These are the skills that determine...self-advocacy are the skills that protect...
Global Insights > Employment
The Real Path to Employment: What Happens Between High School and Your Child's First Paycheck
...planning is part of the IEP process and focuses on life after high school: employment, postsecondary education,...postsecondary education, and independent living skills. The IEP team, which includes you and your child,...experiences Interagency connections to vocational rehab, developmental disability agencies, and adult services If your...
Special Needs > Hearing Impairments
The Transformative Impact of Early Intervention for Children with Hearing Impairments
...difference in their development and future success....speech, and social skills on par with their...Hearing Affects Development. Hearing is critical...speech and language development in young children....for overall brain development. Lack of auditory...window of auditory development. Identifying Hearing...the first month of life. This allows hearing...
Career > Skills Training
Navigating the Path to a Rewarding Career in Skills Training
What is Skills Training?...Training? Skills training...computer skills, communication...Many skills training...complete skills training...quickly. Skills training...workforce development programs,...on-the-job skills training....Career in Skills Training....Working in skills training,...success. Skills training...workforce development, the...Careers in skills training...work-life balance....Types of Skills Training...field of skills training....Workforce development specialist...type of skills training...
Career > Advancement
Empowering Individuals with Special Needs in the Workplace
...their unique skills and talents...Developing Valuable Skills. Through work,...important life and job skills....life and job skills. They learn...build specific skills related to...time, the skills gained through...other areas of life, allowing...adaptability. Skill development...adaptability. Skill development opens doors...goals for skill development...for skill development and job growth...
Parenting > Early Intervention
Navigating the Early Intervention System for Children with Special Needs
...children with developmental delays...includes: Developmental screenings...learning and development in everyday...a child's life are critical...for brain development. By identifying...addressing developmental concerns...social-emotional skills Reduce the...later in life Enhance family...and coping skills Increase...your child's development, the first...perform a developmental screening...
Parenting > Early Intervention
Advocating for Your Child with Special Needs in the Early Intervention System
...babies and toddlers with developmental delays or disabilities....learn the basic and brand-new skills that typically develop during...the first three years of life, such as: physical (reaching,...think your child may have a developmental delay or disability. This...concerned about your child's development, don't wait. You or your child's...
Education > Other
Supporting Children with Special Needs through Early Intervention
...toddlers with developmental delays...physical skills, thinking...thinking skills, communication...communication skills, social/emotional...social/emotional skills, and self-help...self-help skills. Some examples...therapy, and developmental therapy....years of life. This is...learning and development. If a young...has a developmental delay...communication skills. It can...cognitive development and social/emotional...social/emotional skills too. Getting...have a developmental...
Social Engagement > Friends and Family
Fostering Inclusive Experiences for Children with Special Needs
...the overall well-being and development of individuals with special...relationships, improve communication skills, and boost their self-esteem....peers and develop important life skills. It also provides them...and develop important life skills. It also provides them with...include: Improved social skills and communication Increased...