Results
News > Sports
LA2015 Is Here! Southern California is Celebrating Special Needs Athletes From Around the Globe
...going on from now until closing ceremonies August 2nd , Sunday at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Each Host Town is showing on outpouring of volunteerism at its finest. Everyone we encountered was welcoming and warm, with plenty of hugs and smiles to go around the earth several times over!...
Career > Advancement
Employee Resource Groups and Disability Advocacy as Career Tools
...relationships with people outside your immediate team who have budget authority and decision-making power. That's professional development dressed up as volunteerism. The difference between ERG participation and career advancement is documentation. If you run a lunch-and-learn on accessible design, that's a project...
Career > Interviewing
Behavioral Interview Questions and Disability: Reframing Work Experience
Answer STAR behavioral questions using volunteering, advocacy, and adaptive problem-solving when formal work history is limited.
Career > Finding Jobs
Transferable Skills Assessment: Identifying What You Bring to New Careers
A systematic approach to identifying and documenting skills from non-traditional work experience, volunteering, and life situations.
Education > Special Education
How to Find an IEP Advocate or Special Education Attorney
...IEP help is the same. The person you need depends on what you're facing. Parent advocate: Another parent, often trained in the IEP process, who volunteers or works on a limited basis to help other families. Parent advocates understand what it feels like to navigate the system, but they don't have formal...
Lifestyle > Recreation
Board Games That Build Skills: A Parent's Guide to Therapeutic Tabletop Play
...tried it. Your son struggles with turn-taking, your daughter melts down when she loses, and the idea of structured play that ends in tears felt like volunteering for failure. Then one Saturday you opened Outfoxed, a cooperative mystery game, and watched your kids work together to catch the fox for 45 minutes...
Assistive Tech > Vision
Be My Eyes: The Free App Connecting Blind People With On-Demand Visual Help
...something that says as much about people as it does about technology. What Be My Eyes Does. The app connects blind and low-vision users with sighted volunteers through a live video call. When a user needs help, they press a button, hold their phone camera toward what they want to show, and speak to whoever...
Research > Clinical Trials
Clinical Trials and Their Impact on Special Needs Populations
...and effective. They are an important part of developing new ways to prevent, detect, or treat diseases and conditions. Clinical trials often need volunteers to participate. This includes people with specific health conditions who may benefit from the new treatment being studied. Participating in a clinical...
News > Sports
Calabasas Hosting Great Britain Athletes for the Special Olympic World Games
...Olympic World Games LA 2015 depend so much on the volunteers who take on dozens of jobs and responsibilities...with Calabasas, working with the city to engage volunteers in this worthy effort. They have been so welcoming...Mayor Lucy told us there are many "Real Heroes" volunteering in Calabasas. Dan Hunke is coaching swim and...
News > Sports
Law Enforcement Final Leg Torch Run
..."Flame Of Hope". SpecialNeeds.com supports the Special Olympics World Games Los Angels 2015 by donating articles, video, and photos of athletes, volunteers, coaches, and those making this event possible, the largest event of its magnitude since the LA 1984 Olympics. We have been more then excited to...
News > Sports
Special Olympics is Inspiring Careers for Life!
...age between the 16-21 and they participate in track and field events. They race 100, 500 meter runs and also the relays. She told me that even the volunteers get an opportunity to participate in the relay races right along with the athletes. This helps her to keep in good shape, build closer relationships...
News > Sports
Thousand Oaks Host Town Supports Special Olympics World Games LA2015
...Grenadines. A board was selected and the real work began. Haider Alawani is co-chair for the committee formed to organize Thousand Oaks support. Volunteers have come from all over town to host the athletes until opening day of games. Joel assures us that Haider is the real hero of the bunch, keeping...