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Lifestyle > Relationships
How Much Caregiving Responsibility Is Too Much for a Sibling
Practical markers for when sibling help crosses into parentification, and strategies to protect development while maintaining support.
Career > Finding Jobs
Transferable Skills Assessment: Identifying What You Bring to New Careers
...employers use. Start with a Skills Inventory. List every role, activity, or responsibility you've held in the past five years. Include: Paid work: full-time, part-time,...positions Caregiving or household management Self-directed learning or skill development Community involvement or advocacy For each item, write down the specific...
Career > Advancement
Empowering Individuals with Special Needs in the Workplace
...develop important life and job skills. They learn responsibility, time management, problem-solving, and how to...for greater autonomy and adaptability. Skill development opens doors to new opportunities. Setting Goals...single destination. Setting goals for skill development and job growth is important for all individuals,...
Career > Accommodations
Medical Professionals Share Transition Advice
...that the formal transition process start in the preteen years but child development experts recommend that a developmentally-based transition process ideally...start in the preteen years but child development experts recommend that a developmentally-based transition process ideally starts much younger. Preschoolers...
Parenting > Adulthood
Successful Transitions: Focusing on Medical Tasks
...self-care issues. Now let's look briefly at the subject of shifting the responsibility of medical tasks. Knowledge of Disease, Medical Requirements, and Medical...tasks should be taught at the different ages and stages of your child's development. Others clinics don't or are working on it but it takes time, even years,...
Financial > Financial Planning
Housing Planning for Adults with Disabilities: Group Homes, Supported Living, and Home Ownership
...group homes, supported living arrangements, and home ownership. Each has different cost structures, funding sources, and levels of family financial responsibility. Understanding what each model costs and where the money comes from is the foundation of a realistic long-term plan. Group Homes: Residential Programs...
Career > Discrimination
Equal Pay Act and Disability: Fighting Wage Discrimination
...you're doing work that requires substantially equal skill, effort, and responsibility as a non-disabled colleague, and you're paid less because of your disability,...titles. The test is whether the jobs require comparable skill, effort, and responsibility, and whether they're performed under similar working conditions. Here's...
Career > Advancement
Speaking Up When Disability Isn't the Problem But Gets Blamed Anyway
...creep, inadequate resources, unclear priorities: these reflect management decisions. Attributing the problem to an employee's disability shifts responsibility. It reframes the failure as an individual limitation rather than an organizational one. This doesn't always happen consciously. Implicit bias primes...
News > Education
Louisiana Just Advanced a Bill That Would Make Schools Prove They're Correctly Serving Your Child in Special Ed. Here's What Families Need to Know.
...If signed into law, Louisiana would join Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, and Nevada in placing the responsibility on districts to demonstrate they're meeting their legal obligations under IDEA. Why This Matters. Special education due process hearings are the...
Special Needs > Spina Bifida
Teaching Bowel and Bladder Independence in Spina Bifida: A Guide for Parents
...self-catheterization at the annual appointment. Your child is eight. You're still doing all the caths, all the bowel care, and the idea of handing that responsibility over feels impossible right now. This is the conversation most families have eventually, and it often comes later than it should. Teaching bowel...
Special Needs > Dyslexia
Dyslexia and College: How Accommodations Change and What Students Need to Know
...and signed off on your accommodations. The entire process was driven by the school. In college, you own the process. ADA and Section 504 shift responsibility to the student. Colleges must provide equal access, but they don't have to...
Special Needs > General Special Needs
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,...