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Career > Skills Training
The Intersection of Mental and Physical Health for Job Success
...manifest as physical symptoms, and vice versa. For instance, chronic pain can lead to anxiety and depression, while depression can exacerbate pain perception. In Sarah's case, her physical symptoms - headaches and insomnia - could be indicative of an underlying mental health concern, such as anxiety or...
Parenting > The Early Years
The Challenges Of Parenting A Child With Special Needs
...difficult to meet all of a child's needs. Another challenge is dealing with the public's perception of children with special needs. People often assume that children...all of a child's needs. Another challenge is dealing with the public's perception of children with special needs. People often assume that children with...
Special Needs > Learning Differences
IEP or 504: Which Plan Does Your Child with a Learning Difference Need?
...services like speech therapy or occupational therapy, and built-in progress monitoring. The school is legally required to offer a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE), meaning the services must...
Social Engagement > Dating and Relationships
A Parent's Guide to Supporting Your Teen with Special Needs in Their First Relationships
...mistake most parents make is waiting until their teen shows interest in dating. By then, you're behind. Body autonomy, appropriate touch, private versus public behavior: these concepts take longer to internalize for kids with developmental disabilities, and they need repetition across contexts before they...
Global Insights > Education
What U.S. Parents Can Learn from How Other Countries Educate Students with Disabilities
...Nordic countries embedded accessibility at the urban planning level decades before school placement became the negotiation point. Wheelchair-accessible public transit, universally designed playgrounds, buildings constructed with ramps rather than retrofitted: when physical access is infrastructure, educational...
Education > K-12
FAPE and LRE Explained: A Parent's Guide to Your Child's Rights Under IDEA
...and what schools are required to provide. FAPE stands for Free Appropriate Public Education. LRE means Least Restrictive Environment. Both are mandated by...maximum extent appropriate for them. The key word in FAPE is not "free" or "public." It's "appropriate." And the crucial question in LRE is not whether inclusion...
Global Insights > Advocacy
Beyond the IEP: Legal Rights Parents of Children with Disabilities Should Know
...protections into employment, housing, public accommodations, and state services....children the right to a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive...government services. Title III covers public accommodations: restaurants, stores,...housing, or the Department of Justice for public accommodations and government services....
Financial > Housing Assistance
How to Get Priority Placement for Section 8 Housing with a Disability
Section 8 waiting lists can run years long. In some metro areas, five or more. But many Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) offer disability preference rules that let qualifying applicants move ahead in line, and most families don't know to ask...
Education > Other
Charter Schools and Special Education: What Parents Need to Know
...to know: charter schools are public schools, and they're bound...Act), and it requires every public school to accept students with...provide FAPE: a free appropriate public education. Charter schools...more autonomy than traditional public schools in areas like curriculum...Provide a free appropriate public education (FAPE) to students...
Special Needs > Visual Impairments
Orientation and Mobility Training: The Foundation of Independence for Visually Impaired Children
...isn't one thing. It's a progression that begins with an infant learning their body exists in a room and continues through adulthood with independent public transportation use. Infants and toddlers work on body image (where are your hands, where are your feet), spatial concepts (in, on, under, next to),...
Special Needs > Hearing Impairments
IDEA Rights for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in Public Schools
The specific IDEA protections that apply to deaf and hard of hearing students, including qualified interpreters and appropriate placement.
Special Needs > Diabetes
Your Child's 504 Plan for Diabetes: A Complete Guide for School Management
...It's named for Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibits disability discrimination in programs receiving federal funding. Every public school in the country is covered. The plan puts specific accommodations in writing so they can't be walked back when staff change or budgets get tight....