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Supporting Your Other Children: A Family Guide When One Child Has Special Needs
...questions no one answered, the identity that shrank to "the disabled kid's sibling," and the anxiety about a future where caregiving becomes their responsibility. Most families treat sibling distress as something to manage at home. But sibling support programs, therapists who specialize in sibling dynamics,...
Lifestyle > Relationships
When Parents Can No Longer Be There: A Guide for Adult Siblings Who Become Primary Caregivers
...Sometimes that person is a spouse or another family member. Often, it's a sibling. This isn't a temporary arrangement. It's a permanent shift in responsibility, legal authority, and daily life. You're not babysitting. You're not filling in. You're taking over a caregiving system your parents built over...
Career > Advancement
Empowering Individuals with Special Needs in the Workplace
...cannot be overstated. Developing Valuable Skills. Through work, individuals with special needs can develop important life and job skills. They learn responsibility, time management, problem-solving, and how to communicate and collaborate with others. Many workplaces provide on-the-job training to help employees...
News > Sports
Calabasas Hosting Great Britain Athletes for the Special Olympic World Games
...2015 depend so much on the volunteers who take on dozens of jobs and responsibilities to help make it a success. This week, I was honored to interview Mayor...Lucy Martin of Calabasas. The city of Calabasas has taken on the great responsibility of being a Host Town for the Great Britain team. They expect 115 athletes...
Lifestyle > Art
Fill the Void — Movie Review
...apart. Her beloved sister Esther dies during childbirth leaving her husband Yohai (Yiftach Klein) and infant son. Esther's family takes on the responsibility of caring for them, especially baby Mordechai. When it seems like Yohai will take the baby and move away, Esther's mother comes up with a plan....
Global Insights > Culture
Bailey Buntain Talks about Bunheads
...character's actions. She replied, "I don't really have a big say in it and I don't know if I would want a say in it. I don't know if I want that responsibility! I love everything that the writers do and it surprises me, the things that they do, but I always understand the series of events that lead to...
Parenting > School Years
7 Strategies Every Parent Can Use to Meet the Needs of their Gifted Child
...not your child has a specially trained teacher or is enrolled in a special education program for gifted children, you still need to make it your responsibility to be your child's number one advocate. Although the teachers and administrators at your child's school have the professional skills necessary...
Lifestyle > Independence
Transitions: Honesty Is the Best Policy
Last time we talked about how to use choices and questions to help children learn responsibility at as early an age as possible. This week, we talk about an important part of asking questions and giving choices: making sure a child has enough...
Career > Accommodations
Medical Professionals Share Transition Advice
Early, organized transition planning is crucial for health, ideally starting in preschool to foster self-care and responsibility.
Parenting > School Years
Successful Transitions: Parenting Strategies
...parental to personal responsibility. All children must...medical tasks and responsibilities. The challenge...make good choices.” Responsibility is something that...outside. And taking responsibility starts early. In fact,...fact, learning about responsibility and making good choices...that best promotes responsibility, positive attitudes...
Lifestyle > Independence
Transitions: Give Some Independence . . .
...it matters. Now, we are going to start looking at how to start the transition process at as young an age as possible. In fact, the transition to responsibility starts when kids are old enough to spit peas from the high chair! First, let’s briefly discuss the concept of “control.” Control is a basic human...
Education > K-12
A Day in the Life of a Special Ed Teacher
...(Individualized Education Plan) based on some diagnosed disability, the responsibility of preparing lesson plans, recording data on student's progress towards...have any number of students on her case load, and one of her primary responsibilities is to teach those students the state curriculum with any modifications...