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Career > Advancement
Succession Planning and Disability: Positioning Yourself as Next in Line
...conversations into formal settings where you can participate, and ensuring your readiness is documented, not assumed away. Why Succession Planning Excludes by Default....mobility limitations affect after-hours networking, you're absent from the social settings where leadership impressions form. If you need advance notice...
Special Needs > Spina Bifida
Teaching Bowel and Bladder Independence in Spina Bifida: A Guide for Parents
...into full self-management. Here's what that progression looks like, what readiness means at each stage, and how to teach the steps your child needs to get...bowel management aren't just medical tasks. They're the foundation for social participation, employment, and adult relationships. A teenager who can...
Education > Higher Education
College Programs for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: What CTPs Offer
...environments. They're designed to build independent living skills, career readiness, and social integration through a college campus experience. What Comprehensive...They're designed to build independent living skills, career readiness, and social integration through a college campus experience. What Comprehensive Transition...
Education > K-12
Can Schools Hold back America's Brightest?
...disadvantages of both subject and grade acceleration such as potential social problems or unnecessary anxiety, for instance, the report reveals that...acceleration is almost always successful for those students who show signs of readiness. Criteria for Acceleration Not all students can or should skip grades...
Social Engagement > Friends and Family
Adaptive Easter Crafts for Kids with Fine Motor Challenges
Easter crafts kids with fine motor challenges can finish, plus simple material swaps that make almost any craft doable.
Special Needs > Asperger Syndrome
Why Anxiety With Asperger Syndrome Often Gets Missed
...avoidance, physical symptoms, and dread, and the clinician files all of it under the diagnosis already on the chart. The result is a treatment plan aimed at social skills and executive function while the panic goes unaddressed. Families spend years working on the wrong problem. Adults who get their diagnosis later...
Financial > Government Benefits
Substantial Gainful Activity Limits for 2026
...most workers and $2,830 for workers who are blind. Once you understand how Social Security applies it, and the safety nets that come before it, a paycheck...phrase for work that earns enough to live on. Strip the jargon away and Social Security is asking one question: are you working at a level that no longer...
Therapies > Music
Music Therapy vs. Music Lessons: Why They're Not the Same Thing
...not the outcome. A board-certified music therapist starts with a clinical goal, whether that's communication, motor control, emotional regulation, or social connection, and chooses musical experiences designed to move your child toward it. Here is what that looks like...
News > Employment
The House Just Voted to Let Social Security Test New Work Rules for Disability Beneficiaries
...bipartisan vote. The bill, H.R. 8884, would give the Social Security Administration back an authority it lost...projects that temporarily change the rules of the Social Security Disability Insurance program for volunteers,...a Demonstration Project Is. Section 234 of the Social Security Act lets SSA suspend or alter its own...
News > Advocacy
The Justice Department Is Arguing That Disabled People Can't Sue Federal Agencies Under Section 504
If you have ever asked the TSA for a screening accommodation, pushed the Social Security Administration to send a notice in a format you could read, or requested captioning at a VA appointment, you were leaning on a fifty-year-old...
Parenting > Adulthood
Social Security Benefits in Adulthood: What Every Parent of a Child with Disabilities Must Plan For
Two dates will reorganize your child's benefits, and only one of them is on your calendar. The first is their 18th birthday, when Social Security stops treating them as your dependent and starts evaluating them as an adult. The second arrives when you retire, claim disability yourself,...
Financial > Government Benefits
How Trial Work Period Lets You Test Employment Without Losing SSDI
...and it's built on a real misunderstanding of how Social Security treats a return to work. Social Security...of how Social Security treats a return to work. Social Security wrote a rule for exactly this moment....Those nine months don't have to run back to back. Social Security counts them inside a rolling 60-month...