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Leadership Development Programs for Employees with Disabilities
Career > Advancement

Leadership Development Programs for Employees with Disabilities

By Dr. Evelyn Mercer
Many leadership development programs weren't designed with disabled employees...lead to permanent positions with leadership development built into the career path. EARN (Employer...advice in their spare time, but a structured relationship backed by the company's...
Standing Frames for Children with Cerebral Palsy: Medical Benefits Beyond Walking
Assistive Tech > Mobility

Standing Frames for Children with Cerebral Palsy: Medical Benefits Beyond Walking

By Dr. Fiona Maddox
...creates mechanical load on bones, opens the hip joint angle, and shifts the relationship between gravity and the digestive system. Bone Density Develops Under...transfers, during falls, sometimes without any obvious cause. A 2019 study in Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology...
Sexuality Education for People with Disabilities: Why It Matters and Where to Find It
Social Engagement > Dating and Relationships

Sexuality Education for People with Disabilities: Why It Matters and Where to Find It

By Isabella Lewis
...about bodies, relationships, and intimacy...and navigate relationships safely. Yet many...completing the Relationships Decoded curriculum,...intellectual and developmental disabilities...understanding of healthy relationships by 22%. That...versus unhealthy relationship dynamics reduces...understanding their own development, asking questions...and building relationships that are based...
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT): What It Is and How It Helps Special Needs Families
Therapies > Play

Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT): What It Is and How It Helps Special Needs Families

By Dr. Jenna Collins
...your child, strengthening your relationship and reducing challenging behaviors....families raising children with developmental delays, autism, ADHD, or sensory...sessions, that treats the parent-child relationship as the primary tool for behavior...it to age 12 for children with developmental disabilities. The model has two...
Music Therapy for Special Needs Children: What Parents Should Know
Therapies > Music

Music Therapy for Special Needs Children: What Parents Should Know

By Dr. Evelyn Mercer
...structured musical activities to address specific developmental goals: improving communication, building motor...accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship. That's the formal definition from the American...proficiency. Music therapy uses music to address developmental, cognitive, physical,...
Dating with Special Needs: A Communication-Focused Approach
Social Engagement > Dating and Relationships

Dating with Special Needs: A Communication-Focused Approach

By James Williams
...involved in a romantic relationship is a universal human...dating and sustaining relationships can be fraught with...bedrock of any thriving relationship, and doubly so when...overcome, dating and relationships become an opportunity...special needs is the development of certain key skills,...sense of equality in a relationship, allowing them to fully...
Health Prognosis: Cardiac Concerns in People with Down Syndrome
Medical > Cardiology

Health Prognosis: Cardiac Concerns in People with Down Syndrome

By Elijah Evans
The relationship between Down Syndrome and heart conditions is...conditions originates in the earliest stages of development. Individuals with Down syndrome possess an extra...This genetic variance can also affect heart development, leading to anomalies such as atrioventricular...
Connecting Music Therapy and Autism
Therapies > Music

Connecting Music Therapy and Autism

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
...music therapist who has worked for seven years with children with various developmental disabilities, including those with autism. Music therapy is a well-established...singing, instrument playing, or movement to music) within a therapeutic relationship to accomplish individualized goals. Music therapy goals are non-musical...
Applied Floortime
Therapies > Play

Applied Floortime

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
...genius of Dr. Stanley Greenspan, author of the Developmental, Individual Differences, and Relationship...the Developmental, Individual Differences, and Relationship model (DIR), laid in his ability to understand...(DIR), laid in his ability to understand the development of the natural human mind and applying this...
DIR/FLOORTIME: A Developmental Approach to Play Therapy for Children Impacted by Autism Treatment
Therapies > Play

DIR/FLOORTIME: A Developmental Approach to Play Therapy for Children Impacted by Autism Treatment

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
...derailed by developmental delays like...children with developmental challenges....DIR/Floortime is a developmental play therapy...designed a modern developmental/relationship-based...developmental/relationship-based model...called it DIR (developmental, individual-differences,...individual-differences, relationship-based model)...child on his developmental level, strengthen...be impeding development and emphasize...
DIR/FLoor Time: Play Therapy For Children with Autism
Therapies > Play

DIR/FLoor Time: Play Therapy For Children with Autism

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
...of children with developmental challenges. While...Floor Time is a developmental play therapy technique...develop- mental/relationship-based model that...called it DIR (developmental, individual differences,...individual differences, relationship-based model) or,...the child on his developmental level, strengthen...may be impeding development and emphasize the...
Respecting Autism: A Talk with Dr. Gil Tippy
Special Needs > Autism Spectrum

Respecting Autism: A Talk with Dr. Gil Tippy

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
...not imposing what you imagine what the kid needs on the kid. We are a developmental model, so obviously we have an idea of where we think kids develop....starts with asking what is this kid interested in and how can I be in a relationship with him? Respect also means, for instance, we don't wipe kids noses...

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