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Therapies > Animal
Service Dog, Therapy Dog, or Emotional Support Animal: Which Is Right for Your Child?
...support options for your child, and...overlapping: service dog, therapy dog, emotional support...Families pay thousands for "ESA certifications"...dog lists when a therapy dog program would...perform specific tasks for a person with a...disability. Common tasks for children with disabilities:...Deep pressure therapy during meltdowns...emergency alert devices (epilepsy, cerebral palsy)...
Special Needs > Epilepsy
Dietary Therapy for Epilepsy: A Parent's Guide to Ketogenic and Modified Atkins Diets
...about dietary therapy from other...been used for drug-resistant...drug-resistant epilepsy since the 1920s....children with epilepsy don't respond...medications. For many of these...families, dietary therapy becomes the...Atkins diets for childhood epilepsy,...childhood epilepsy, including...How Dietary Therapy Works for Seizures....Therapy Works for Seizures. The...these ketones for energy instead...
Special Needs > Epilepsy
A New Epilepsy Treatment Reports Over 90% Seizure Reduction in Initial Patients
For families managing drug-resistant...managing drug-resistant epilepsy, the standard list...That backdrop matters for understanding why a...understanding why a therapy currently in clinical...attention from the epilepsy research community....generally not an option for people with bilateral...bilateral temporal lobe epilepsy, where seizures originate...
Financial > Financial Planning
Special Needs Planning for Sudden Wealth: Settlements, Inheritances, and Windfalls
...wrong account. The asset limit for SSI is $2,000 for an individual....asset limit for SSI is $2,000 for an individual. Medicaid uses...gap, medication costs resume, therapy stops, and home care disappears....A personal injury settlement for $100,000 sitting in a savings...goal is to preserve the funds for future needs without sacrificing...
Legal > Government Benefits
Understanding Representative Payees: Who Manages Your Child's Disability Benefits
...benefits independently. For children under 18,...this is automatic. For adults, SSA makes...can change, matters for both immediate compliance...legally responsible for using it correctly,...Using benefits only for the beneficiary's...can use benefits for education expenses,...education expenses, therapy not covered by insurance,...do is use benefits for expenses...
Career > Discrimination
Association Discrimination: When Your Employer Discriminates Because of Your Disabled Child or Spouse
...your child has cerebral palsy and requires regular therapy appointments, and suddenly your performance reviews...spouse means higher insurance costs Passes you over for a lateral transfer because they believe you'll need...because they believe you'll need frequent time off for caregiving Terminates you after learning your partner...
Career > Accommodations
Service Animals in the Workplace: Employer Obligations and Employee Rights
You've been approved for a service animal. Your...performs tasks directly related to your disability. Now...work or perform tasks for a person with a disability....tasks must be directly related to the disability. Emotional...Emotional support animals, therapy animals, and comfort animals...process. That's a formal term for a two-way conversation...
Career > Accommodations
Temporary Accommodations During Medical Treatment or Recovery
...a procedure that's going to knock you sideways for weeks. And you're worried that if you can't show...there's a legal framework designed specifically for this situation. The Americans with Disabilities...reconstruction that requires months of physical therapy and restricted mobility does. Duration doesn't determine...
Assistive Tech > Mobility
Mobility Equipment Maintenance: Keeping Wheelchairs and Walkers Safe
You aren't a maintenance technician. You're a parent who needs your child's wheelchair to work reliably so they can get to school, participate in therapy, and move through the world without interruption. A missed loose bolt or worn tire doesn't just mean a repair appointment: it means lost mobility,...
Education > Special Education
IEP Services Can't Be Cut by a Budget Crisis. Here's How to Hold Your School Accountable.
...(IDEA), and it doesn't bend for funding pressure. This matters...schools $7.5 billion annually for special education services like...education services like speech therapy, OT, PT, and assistive technology,...a school's inability to pay for those services doesn't change...entitled to special education and related services at public expense,...
Assistive Tech > Mobility
Trexo Robotic Gait Trainer: What Families Should Know About the Technology
...you've watched your child push through physical therapy sessions and the progress is still slow, the waiting...Trexo is a pediatric robotic gait trainer designed for home and clinical use. It supports children as young...that attach to the child's legs, a harness system for partial weight support, and a base unit that the...
News > Research
The FDA Just Gave a Rare Pediatric Gene Therapy Its Fastest Regulatory Track. Here's What Families of Children with NGLY1 Deficiency Need to Know.
...Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) designation...investigational gene therapy developed by Grace...by Grace Science for NGLY1 Deficiency....patients treated for at least 52 weeks....least 52 weeks. For families of children...complex movement disorders, and alacrima, which...life-threatening diseases. For families, this means...GS-100 may qualify for accelerated approval...