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Global Insights > Laws
The 2026 Digital Accessibility Deadline: What Parents Need to Know About School and Healthcare Portals
...in mind. Federal rules finalized in 2024...announced final regulations requiring state and...requiring state and local government...large jurisdictions and April 2027 for smaller...public hospitals, and telehealth platforms...text for images and graphics, so screen...technology can interpret and announce page content...Error identification and correction suggestions,...
Lifestyle > Recreation
Screen Time and Special Needs: Evidence-Based Guidance for Parents
...platforms, sensory regulation devices, and sometimes...regulation devices, and sometimes the only...peers. The generic rules don't fit, and following...generic rules don't fit, and following them means...research on screen time and special needs is mixed,...sometimes contradictory, and rarely specific enough...Standard Screen Time Rules Don't Work for Special...
Lifestyle > Recreation
Board Games That Build Skills: A Parent's Guide to Therapeutic Tabletop Play
...she loses, and the idea of...mystery game, and watched your...turn-taking, emotional regulation, and flexible...regulation, and flexible thinking:...cooperate, and celebrate wins...provide clear rules and predictable...clear rules and predictable...working memory and impulse control...sequencing, color and number recognition,...recognition, and cause-and-effect...recognition, and cause-and-effect reasoning...
Parenting > The Early Years
Taming a Monster Child
...disproportionate anger and aggression, simmer with...simmer with resentment, and are often driven to...way to annoy others, and will blatantly and quite...and will blatantly and quite stubbornly disregard...stubbornly disregard rules. Parents of children...was overly demanding and rigid from a very early...disruption of family and social life...
Legal > Government Benefits
Seven States Are Still Challenging the Rule That Keeps People with Disabilities in Their Communities, and the Federal Response Is Due June 15
...challenging the federal rule that requires states...Missouri, Montana, and Texas. Indiana dropped...asking the court to rule without a full trial,...integration mandate regulations, the rule requiring...mandate regulations, the rule requiring that people...fund Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services...Integration Mandate Is and Why It Matters. Section...
News > Advocacy
The Healthcare Accessibility Deadline Is 6 Days Away. Here's What Disability Families Should Do If Their Provider's Site Still Isn't Accessible.
...patient portals, and telehealth platforms...accessibility gaps. The rule comes from the...Department of Health and Human Services'...navigation, and other assistive...2027-2028 for state and local governments....delayed. The DOJ rule applies to state...applies to state and local government...Section 504 rule applies to healthcare...They're separate regulations with separate...separate deadlines, and the DOJ extension...
Career > Skills Training
Teamwork and Collaboration Skills Training for Autistic Adults
...collaborative projects, and group problem-solving...got the script and you're improvising....teams communicate and how autistic adults...learned systems, and when social communication...are unwritten and assumed. Eye contact...meeting starts is relationship-building. None...collaboration your way, and your coworkers...the invisible rules visible and gives...rules visible and gives you a framework...
News > Advocacy
The DOJ May Delay the ADA's Web Accessibility Deadline. Here's What Disability Families Need to Know.
..."interim final rule" to the...Management and Budget on...for state and local government...ADA. The rule's contents...public, and it bypasses...accessibility regulation. The deadline...websites and mobile apps...registration, and emergency..."interim final rule" to reconsider...but the rule hasn't been...the timing and procedural...of this and the fact...interim final rule rather than...proposed rule they had...schedules, and...
Special Needs > Asperger Syndrome
Asperger Syndrome in Adults: Navigating a Late Diagnosis
...just diagnosed and you recognized...else received, and someone finally...now, with a job and relationships and...with a job and relationships and decades...relationships and decades of experiences...sensory input, and patterns differently...unspoken social rules, and experience...social rules, and experience sensory...to your energy and mental health....
Lifestyle > Relationships
How to Help Your Child With Autism Build and Keep Friendships
...through sleepovers and arguments and making...sleepovers and arguments and making up. We didn't...that way. The implicit rules, the unspoken turn-taking,...a set of unwritten rules no one ever bothered...adults report no peer relationships outside structured...most families receive, and how much difference...understand loyalty and kindness deeply but...
Career > Advancement
Building Professional Networks When Traditional Networking Doesn't Work
...to a stranger, and comfortably sustain...background noise, and remember names...remember names and faces under pressure....differences, or speech and communication...Bath University and others studying...implicit social rules, when to approach,...professional skill and ambition are...professional relationships often don't...smaller spaces, and repeated low-stakes...time. LinkedIn and professional...
Social Engagement > Dating and Relationships
Talking Love: Communication Guidelines for Special Needs Individuals in Relationships
...People in Relationships. Today's...critical. As relationships thrive...strategies and a balanced...satisfying and robust relationship,...robust relationship, robust,...clear, and empathetic...needs, the rules remain functionally...feelings and responses,...language and non-verbal...verbal and non-verbal...sustainable relationships. Navigating...empathy, and above all,...emotions and feelings...understanding and love over...Special Needs and Digital...