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Education > Early Intervention
Parent Coaching in Early Intervention: How You Become Your Child's Best Teacher
...time. This is parent coaching, and...not alone. Many parents arrive at their...treatment, and the parent observes. But...matters. What Parent Coaching Is (and...Direct Therapy). Parent coaching is a...teaches you how to support your child's development...there. Research on parent-mediated intervention...intervention shows that parents who learn and...visits your home for 45 minutes each...
Education > Accommodations
Standardized Testing Accommodations: Making Sure Your Child's IEP Supports Transfer to State Tests
...A separate quiet space for quizzes. Read-aloud support...for quizzes. Read-aloud support for written materials....quizzes. Read-aloud support for written materials. When...testing season arrives, many parents assume those same accommodations...Classroom accommodations support learning. Testing accommodations...math word problem works for the same reason. If the...
Special Needs > Multiple Sclerosis
Managing MS Fatigue in Children: What Parents and Schools Need to Know
...exhaustion is laziness or lack of effort. Parents see a child who's physically depleted...after sitting still and taking notes for 20 minutes. The effort of concentrating,...neurological cost of everyday tasks is higher for them than for their peers. What MS Fatigue...everyday tasks is higher for them than for their peers. What MS Fatigue Looks Like...
Special Needs > Learning Differences
Executive Function Strategies That Work: A Parent's Guide for Students with Learning Differences
...skills respond to practical support. Research shows that external...what works. Working Memory Support: Making Information Stick. Working...aloud what they're about to do. For math problems, this means talking...the steps beFore calculating. For writing, it's describing the...it, freeing up mental space for the work itself rather...
Special Needs > Learning Differences
IEP or 504: Which Plan Does Your Child with a Learning Difference Need?
...during a meeting, or you've heard other parents reference them. But no one has explained...explained which one your child qualifies for, what the difference is, or why it...different laws, provide different levels of support, and require different kinds of advocacy...but teaching designed specifically for how their brain works. IDEA covers...
Special Needs > Dyslexia
Dyslexia and College: How Accommodations Change and What Students Need to Know
...and you assume the same support system follows you. It...schools must identify and support students with disabilities....them. No one's looking for you. You have to find...considered adults responsible for their own academic lives....can absolutely get the support they need in college,...monitored your progress. Your parents attended every IEP meeting...
Social Engagement > Dating and Relationships
A Parent's Guide to Supporting Your Teen with Special Needs in Their First Relationships
...changes is the support structure they...frameworks for things other...things other parents take for granted....parents take for granted. First...had a forum for whatever else...creating space for social connection...template, and most parents find themselves...mistake most parents make is waiting...internalize for kids with developmental...been building for years. Start...anatomical terms for body parts...
Research > Drug Development
Should Your Child Participate in a Clinical Trial? A Parent's Decision Framework
...sent an email about a study recruiting for your child's condition. You've got a...research you don't fully understand, for a drug that may or may not work, with...evaluate whether this trial makes sense for your family. Here's how to think through...300 people. Researchers are looking for a signal that the drug does what it's...
Parenting > Adulthood
Housing Options for Adults with Disabilities: From Supported Living to Independence
...conversation should start. Most parents I talk to think there are two...land. The housing continuum for adults with disabilities runs...with varying levels of staff support. The right fit depends on your...fit depends on your child's support needs, not on what you think...how Medicaid funding works for each option. What the Housing...
Global Insights > Education
What U.S. Parents Can Learn from How Other Countries Educate Students with Disabilities
...universal. That every parent, everywhere, negotiates...Reduced the Need for Individual Negotiations....in the way U.S. parents recognize them....individualized support plans, but the baseline...providing real-time support. What U.S. parents...support. What U.S. parents fight for at IEP...U.S. parents fight for at IEP meetings...infrastructure. Parents still advocate,...
News > Advocacy
The R-Word Spiked 200% Online. A Disney Actor With Down Syndrome Made a 91-Second Response Parents Need to See.
...syndrome rights nonprofit) released a 91-second video for World Down Syndrome Day 2026 featuring Noah Matthews...from The Drum to Disability Scoop, and coalition support from the National Down Syndrome Society, Down's...other international orgs. Noah's 91-second case for retiring the R-word doesn't lecture. It lists absurd...
Education > Online Learning
Universal Design for Learning: What Parents Need to Know About Accessible Online Education
...promises "Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles"...academic language that keeps parents from evaluating whether..."we follow UDL," most parents have no idea what that...whether an online platform supports your child's access needs....Means. Universal Design for Learning is a teaching...developed by CAST (Center for Applied Special Technology)...