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Navigating Your Child’s Intellectual Disability Diagnosis

Navigating Your Child’s Intellectual Disability Diagnosis

For many families, the moment their child receives an intellectual disability diagnosis can be scary and isola... Read More

Special Needs New Year’s Resolutions

Special Needs New Year’s Resolutions

We all tend to make unrealistic New Year's resolutions that are never fulfilled. Let this year be differe... Read More

How Can Early Intervention Services Help Students?

How Can Early Intervention Services Help Students?

When I first started teaching in special education, I was unaware of the early intervention services available... Read More

Health-Related Resources for People with IDD and Their Supporters

Health-Related Resources for People with IDD and Their Supporters

With significant health disparities noted in people with IDD, it is important that people with intellectual an... Read More

The Parent and Professional Partnership

The Parent and Professional Partnership

The strategies emphasized by the professionals who have worked with my family have been invaluable in gui... Read More

Make Sure Your Future Plan Covers These Five Key Areas

Make Sure Your Future Plan Covers These Five Key Areas

There are five basic, interdependent areas of planning for a secure future for your family member with a disab... Read More

A Story of a Rare Genetic Mutation: An Exceptional Boy and Resources for Families

A Story of a Rare Genetic Mutation: An Exceptional Boy and Resources for Families

Introduction I would like to share my story about my two-year-old son, Levi, and our family’s journey w... Read More

Let's Talk – Q&A: COVID-19 Vaccines & Children with Disabilities

Let's Talk – Q&A: COVID-19 Vaccines & Children with Disabilities

On December 11, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration approved the emergency use of the Pfizer COVID-19 vacci... Read More

Inclusion is Essential, Even in Remote Learning!

Inclusion is Essential, Even in Remote Learning!

Many school districts are now using remote learning or hybrid models combining remote and in-person learning.... Read More

What Autism Organizations Can I Trust to Give Me Good Recommendations or Resources?

What Autism Organizations Can I Trust to Give Me Good Recommendations or Resources?

If you’re a newly-diagnosed person with autism, or the loved one of a newly-diagnosed autistic person, y... Read More

Mental Health Care for Individuals with Intellectual or Developmental Disability (I/DD) During the Time of COVID-19

Mental Health Care for Individuals with Intellectual or Developmental Disability (I/DD) During the Time of COVID-19

While data on the pandemic’s effect on individuals with I/DD is lacking, we can see that the mental heal... Read More

Mentors, Role Models, and Peers

Mentors, Role Models, and Peers

Both of my children, Ethan who is 19 years old and Gavin who is 16 years old, have Usher syndrome type 1; they... Read More

Tips and Tools for the Employment of Adults with Disabilities

Tips and Tools for the Employment of Adults with Disabilities

Everyone is better off when people with disabilities work. The workers themselves have a livelihood as well as... Read More

Disabilities and Counseling Services

Disabilities and Counseling Services

The foundation for any discussion of counseling services is an understanding of the basic types of disabilitie... Read More

Treatment Techniques for Proper Auditory and Vestibular Function

Treatment Techniques for Proper Auditory and Vestibular Function

This article seeks to help the parent or caregiver recognize the importance of treatment techniques that empha... Read More

Resources in Support of a Smoother Transition to the New PCS

Resources in Support of a Smoother Transition to the New PCS

The military-connected child’s life is often filled with adventures and excursions across the nation, or... Read More