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When Medical Care Becomes Traumatic: PTSD in Disabled Children and Their Families
...for some, that repetition creates trauma. Medical trauma refers to the psychological...repetition creates trauma. Medical trauma refers to the psychological and physiological...the crisis has passed. How Medical Trauma Shows Up in Children with Disabilities....disabilities face higher rates of trauma exposure across their lifetimes. Medical...
News > Advocacy
The R-Word Spiked 200% Online. A Disney Actor With Down Syndrome Made a 91-Second Response Parents Need to See.
...simply harmful to someone. Well, the r-word is harmful to us." The campaign is called "Just Evolve." The tagline is direct and the execution avoids trauma narratives or emotional appeals. Instead, a 19-year-old lists things we stopped doing because we figured out they caused harm. Who Noah Matthews Matofsky...
Therapies > Play
What Is Play Therapy? A Parent's Guide for Special Needs Families
...underdeveloped, play becomes the medium. A child who can't articulate anxiety about parental divorce might reenact separation through dolls. A child processing trauma might repeat scenarios with toy figures until the narrative shifts. The therapist creates a structured environment where that play can happen safely,...
Medical > Psychiatry
The Hidden Mental Health Crisis: Why Teenagers with Disabilities Need Psychiatric Care (And How to Access It)
...identity formation, peer relationships, academic pressure, physical changes. Then add disability-specific layers: chronic pain, social isolation, medical trauma from repeated procedures, awareness of difference, restricted independence, and for some, knowledge that their condition is progressive. Depression...
Medical > Neurology
Navigating Epilepsy: Comprehensive Guide for Individuals with Special Needs
...is Epilepsy? Epilepsy is a neurological disorder marked by recurrent seizures. These are not triggered by an identifiable cause like fever or brain trauma but are instead the result of an unexpected rush of electrical activity within the brain. The symptoms can range from momentary staring spells to convulsive...
Health > Mental Health
I Am Adam Lanza's Therapist: The Children, The Moms
...continued from here The Children The root cause of RAD is abandonment trauma or failure to attach. Physical abuse and sexual abuse are much easier to...however we are having an epidemic of "mean girls", too. After the attachment trauma, boys are often disciplined more harshly for their defiance and disrespect...
Health > Mental Health
Anger, Self-Destructive Tendencies, Depression, and Learning Disorders
...suddenly . . . from any child. Anger and its consequences can make children 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 disorders. In extreme situations, we hear of suicides by those we least...
Assistive Tech > Mobility
Product of the Week: Pediatric Limb Immobilizers
...must immobilize or support their children's limbs for their own good, it's vital to do so in a gentle, loving way that minimizes any discomfort or trauma to the child. Before advanced pediatric immobilization wraps were developed, however, parents and doctors used very basic objects to serve as arm...
Health > Diagnosis
The Future of Diagnosis with DSM-5
...learning, and motor disorders, and ADHD) Anxiety Disorders Depressive Disorders Obsessive-Compulsive and related disorders Personality Disorders Trauma and Stressor-related Disorders (including RAD and PTSD) Sexual Dysfunction and Gender Dysphoria Somatic Symptom Disorders Other areas of the...
Health > Mental Health
A Growing Epidemic for Kids: Help Your Child Stop Cutting
Article offers strategies to help teens stop cutting, a behavior often linked to trauma and used as a coping mechanism.
Education > Early Intervention
Excerpt from "Life Before Birth"
On Prenatal Life: The evidence is increasing–traumas while being carried in the womb have a lifelong...stored for a lifetime affecting our behavior.[1] A trauma in the womb can change the set-point for noradrenaline...produce maladaptation: not for just the time of the trauma, but for a lifetime. Long term excess cortisol...
Special Needs > General Special Needs
Reactive Attachment Disorder
...or any of the other typical parenting methods that work for most...people. In fact, if you are parenting a child with RAD, take everything...you've ever learned about parenting, turn it upside down and inside...intense emotional or physical trauma at a very young age. Not all...Not all children who suffer trauma will develop RAD, but a traumatic...