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Health > Mental Health
A Growing Epidemic for Kids: Help Your Child Stop Cutting
...emergency room. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for groups of teens to cut and try to pressure others into this behavior to appear tough and cool.What teen cutters and those pressured to cut need most, is support. Since cutting is associated with shame, the shock, anger and revulsion of family and friends...
Health > Mental Health
Teen and Preteen Girls Are at Risk For Developing Eating Disorders: Adolescent Eating Disorders
...to American television, Fijian teens (previously unexposed to Western culture) experienced significant changes in their attitudes and behaviors. The teen risk for eating disorders doubled to 29%, vomiting for weight control in high school girls increased five fold to 15%, 62% of girls were on diets and...
Lifestyle > Relationships
Friendship Circles and Peer Buddy Programs for Autism
...typically operate through community organizations or schools. Volunteers, most often middle or high school students, are matched with an autistic child or teen for weekly activities. These might be one-on-one sessions or group events: art projects, cooking classes, outings to parks or museums. The activities...
Lifestyle > Independence
Time Management and Schedules for Teens with Autism
Your teen with autism misses the school...the problem isn't that your teen forgot what time it is. The...in an instant. A neurotypical teen might sense that they've been...scrolling for too long. An autistic teen often doesn't register the passage...blindness compounds this. Your teen might know they need to leave...
Lifestyle > Independence
Kitchen Safety and Cooking Independence for Teens with Disabilities
...gets real. Your teen might navigate a...afraid to let their teen use the stove, I...What protects your teen is preparation, the...The goal isn't a teen who can cook when...beside them. It's a teen who can feed themselves...pick a recipe their teen likes, then scramble...impossible to grip. The teen walks away convinced...for the tasks your teen will repeat hundreds...
Lifestyle > Independence
Money Management Skills for Teens with Intellectual Disabilities
Your teen stands at the convenience store...matters more than the $1.21. Your teen needs to notice the discrepancy,...to debrief. Start Where Your Teen Is, Not Where the Curriculum...that starts at lesson one. Your teen may identify coins fluently...present them. Start with what your teen already does with money. Do...
Special Needs > Cystic Fibrosis
The CF Transition to Adult Care: How to Prepare Your Teen for Independent Health Management
Your teen's CF care has been coordinated by the same pediatric...the adult clinic has capacity constraints. Your teen's CF center should initiate transition planning...readiness isn't just about age. It's about whether your teen can manage their medication schedule independently,...
Social Engagement > Dating and Relationships
A Parent's Guide to Supporting Your Teen with Special Needs in Their First Relationships
...most parents find themselves working it out as it arrives. Start the Conversation Before Puberty. The mistake most parents make is waiting until their teen shows interest in dating. By then, you're behind. Body autonomy, appropriate touch, private versus public behavior: these concepts take longer to internalize...
Special Needs > Spina Bifida
Transition to Adult Care in Spina Bifida: Why Planning Starts at 14 Not 18
...structure ends. Most families start thinking about this transition when their teen is 17 or 18. The 2023 Spina Bifida Clinical Care Guidelines say you should...four years is the realistic timeline for gradual skill transfer. At 14, your teen can start learning the vocabulary of their own diagnosis. What level of spina...
Special Needs > Down Syndrome
Preparing Your Teen with Down Syndrome for Adult Life: A Transition Planning Guide
IEP transition requirements, life skills assessment, employment models, and living options for young adults with Down syndrome.
Education > Higher Education
Transitioning 2 Life Skills – From HS to Adult
...national Indicator 13 guidelines. They are written on a 3rd/4th grade reading level to provide independent use whenever possible but are written with teen sensibilities in mind. The books have light, airy pages with lots of bullet-point information and lessons are 2-3 pages long with a short quiz or activity...
Special Needs > General Special Needs
Substance Abuse – Safeguarding Your Special Needs Teenager
The case earlier this year in Temecula CA, of a special needs teen being entrapped and arrested for supplying illegal drugs to an undercover police officer has highlighted that as parents of a special needs child, the...