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Reactive Attachment Disorder
...baby. From being left in soiled diapers, to...work for most people. In fact, if you are parenting...sanity. RAD develops in children who suffer...emotional or physical trauma at a very young age....children who suffer trauma will develop RAD, but...RAD, but a traumatic childhood is the common factor...with this diagnosis. In a nutshell, the child...
News > Advocacy
The R-Word Spiked 200% Online. A Disney Actor With Down Syndrome Made a 91-Second Response Parents Need to See.
The R-word surged 207.5% on X in November 2025. Montclair State University...followIng a single high-profile tweet. In response, CoorDown (an Italian Down...tagline is direct and the execution avoids trauma narratives or emotional appeals. Instead,...syndrome. At 15, he was cast as Slightly in Disney's Peter Pan & Wendy (2023), starring...
Therapies > Play
What Is Play Therapy? A Parent's Guide for Special Needs Families
...could do at home, or what your child already does in occupational therapy sessions. Is it legitimate...they interact with materials, what themes emerge in their play, and how those observations should inform...reenact separation through dolls. A child processing trauma might repeat scenarios with toy figures until the...
Medical > Psychiatry
The Hidden Mental Health Crisis: Why Teenagers with Disabilities Need Psychiatric Care (And How to Access It)
...the crisis. Not the prevalence of mental illness in this population, which is well-documented, but the...layers: chronic pain, social isolation, medical trauma from repeated procedures, awareness of difference,...progressive. Depression doesn't look like sadness in every...
Health > Mental Health
When Medical Care Becomes Traumatic: PTSD in Disabled Children and Their Families
...discuss next steps in language that...repetition creates trauma. Medical trauma...trauma. Medical trauma refers to the...threat to life. In children with...spend more time in hospitals, and...version portrayed in media, but the...passed. How Medical Trauma Shows Up in Children...Trauma Shows Up in Children with...higher rates of trauma exposure across...limited autonomy in decisions about...
Medical > Neurology
Navigating Epilepsy: Comprehensive Guide for Individuals with Special Needs
...Strategies for Special Needs Individuals. In the sphere of neurology, few conditions...epilepsy, especially when diagnosed in special needs individuals. The path...identifiable cause like fever or brain trauma but are instead the result of an unexpected...factors: cognition and behavior. Changes in social interaction, mood, perceptive...
Health > Mental Health
I Am Adam Lanza's Therapist: The Children, The Moms
...The root cause of RAD is abandonment trauma or failure to attach. Physical abuse...and bonding is supposed to take place in the very young. Many people think violent..."mean girls", too. After the attachment trauma, boys are often disciplined more harshly...and at some point, testosterone kicks in. Some RAD kids are profoundly self-conscious,...
Health > Mental Health
Anger, Self-Destructive Tendencies, Depression, and Learning Disorders
...fearful, which makes them unable to learn. The brain will protect itself from trauma and may scramble input or output, which can be a key component of learning...scramble Input or output, which can be a key component of learning disorders. In extreme situations, we hear of suicides by those we least expect, people...
Assistive Tech > Mobility
Product of the Week: Pediatric Limb Immobilizers
...limb immobilizers are increasingly used in children's conditions ranging from cleft...their own good, it's vital to do so in a gentle, loving way that minimizes...way that minimizes any discomfort or trauma to the child. Before advanced pediatric...to serve as arm and leg immobilizers. In the past, items such as Pringles potato...
Health > Diagnosis
The Future of Diagnosis with DSM-5
...symptoms individuals must meet in order to be given a diagnosis...text revision, is the one in current use) is the most...most anticipated document in the mental health field....Personality Disorders Trauma and Stressor-related Disorders...manual. Many people are in support of the revision,...published an article earlier in 2012 about a panel of experts...
Health > Mental Health
A Growing Epidemic for Kids: Help Your Child Stop Cutting
...and disturbing behaviors teens engage in is cutting. Cutting is a form of self-punishment...confusion, anger, or overwhelmIng pain. In many cases, cutting is correlated with...compulsive behaviors. The statistics are one in every 200 adolescent girls between the...become infected. Cutters often end up in the emergency room. Unfortunately, it...
Education > Early Intervention
Excerpt from "Life Before Birth"
...increasing–traumas while being...being carried in the womb have...is critical in all this. Lancet...percent rise in stress hormone...percent rise in endorphin levels,...and can set in motion all...factors involved in pain and stress....behavior.[1] A trauma in the womb...behavior.[1] A trauma in the womb can...time of the trauma, but for a...resulting in memory loss...loss later in life. There...