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How to Pay for Music Therapy: Insurance, Medicaid Waivers, and Grant Programs
Therapies > Music

How to Pay for Music Therapy: Insurance, Medicaid Waivers, and Grant Programs

By Jack Foster
...Insurance companies fund medically necessary treatment. Music therapy is typically coded as developmental...the service itself falls outside the diagnostic treatment model insurers use to determine coverage. This...definition. Each state administers its own waiver programs under different names....
Animal-Assisted Therapy for Special Needs Children: A Parent's Guide to All Your Options
Therapies > Animal

Animal-Assisted Therapy for Special Needs Children: A Parent's Guide to All Your Options

By Daniel Thompson
...your child needs and what a program offers. Before you commit...offers. Before you commit to a program, you need to understand what...to informal pet visitation programs. Those are not the same thing,...incorporates a trained animal into treatment sessions. The animal is part...There's no individualized treatment plan. The handler may be a...
Childhood Cancer Survivorship: Understanding Long-Term Effects and Disability Supports
Special Needs > Cancer

Childhood Cancer Survivorship: Understanding Long-Term Effects and Disability Supports

By Aiden Moore
Your child finished cancer treatment six months ago. The oncology team...appear months or years after cancer treatment ends. They're caused by the treatment...treatment ends. They're caused by the treatment itself: chemotherapy damages developing...anatomy. The younger your child was at treatment, the more vulnerable their developing...
Your Child's 504 Plan for Diabetes: A Complete Guide for School Management
Special Needs > Diabetes

Your Child's 504 Plan for Diabetes: A Complete Guide for School Management

By Grace Lewis
...Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibits disability discrimination in programs receiving federal funding. Every public school in the country is covered....monitoring, insulin administration, carbohydrate intake, and emergency treatment, without delay, without permission, and without penalty. The plan should...
What to Do If Your Child Is on a Medicaid Waiver Waiting List
Health > Treatment

What to Do If Your Child Is on a Medicaid Waiver Waiting List

By Henry Bennett
...(2010–2012), every state and Washington, D.C. cut HCBS spending. Waiting lists for developmental disability waivers grew by a median of 54%. For other waiver programs, the increase was 138%. This pattern matters because it tells you what to expect and what you need to do now to stay positioned. HCBS waivers allow...
Product of the Week: Social Skills, Emotional Growth and Drama Therapy
Therapies > Play

Product of the Week: Social Skills, Emotional Growth and Drama Therapy

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
...intervention like drama therapy can be the greatest treatment. Drama therapy works by firing mirror neurons;...research literature. The book even describes treatment interventions and provides enough detail that...resource for starting their own drama therapy programs. Told in a thoroughly engaging manner (as you...
Agency Spotlight: The International Dyslexia Association
Special Needs > Dyslexia

Agency Spotlight: The International Dyslexia Association

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
...educational organization dedicated to the study and treatment of dyslexia and other learning difficulties....result, the IDA has developed the Parent Pilot Program to help parents of children with dyslexia or other...reading and writing difficulties. This unique program provides parents access to an online interactive...
Physical Therapy
Therapies > Physical

Physical Therapy

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
...strengths and abilities. A therapy program will focus on improving the patient's...patient's needs, regularly scheduled treatment with a physical therapist to work...provide the most appropriate therapy program for each individual patient. Each...important to include them in the therapy program, as many therapy activities should...
Lexercise for Dyslexia
Special Needs > Dyslexia

Lexercise for Dyslexia

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
...the way therapy and treatment modalities can be provided....develop an individualized treatment plan. How it Works...special training for the program. Lexercise is convenient,...Lexercise Vs. Clinical Treatment Clinical treatment programs...treatment Clinical treatment programs for dyslexia...Clinical treatment programs for dyslexia usually...
Special Ed Schools in California
Education > K-12

Special Ed Schools in California

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
...Berkley, CA helps students aged 5 to 21 with special education and behavioral treatment. This non-public school accommodates many different students with different...placed in this school through their school district's Individual Educational Program (IEP) teams. Not...
Quick Fixes and Long Term Damage
Health > Treatment

Quick Fixes and Long Term Damage

By SpecialNeeds.com Editor
...very influenced, and has been, by: Institutions with agendas (over-crowded and under-funded school systems, drug companies, and publicly funded programs such as CHADD). Individuals that have a vested interest (educators, legislators, researchers, and doctors). Those in the middle of it all (over...
Hip Surveillance for Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Parent's Guide to the Monitoring Schedule
Special Needs > Cerebral Palsy

Hip Surveillance for Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Parent's Guide to the Monitoring Schedule

By Dr. Harper Clark
...level. What Hip Surveillance Is. Hip surveillance is a proactive monitoring program using scheduled X-rays to track how well the hip joint is staying in place...how well the hip joint is staying in place as your child grows. It's not treatment. It's early detection. The X-rays measure something called the migration...

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