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- Parenting Children with Disabilities: Tips for Reducing StressParenting a child with a disability can be challenging and stressful. It's important to take time everyday to reduce stress to help maintain health and better deal with obstacles that cross our paths.
- What Causes Oral Health Problems in Children with Disabilities?Children with disabilities and special needs are at a higher risk of health problems. Special needs children need extra help to achieve and preserve physical health, including dental health.
- Why Children with Disabilities Need Unsupervised Play TimeIf you are the parent of a child with a disability, here is what you need to know about the need for unsupervised play time.
- Children with Disabilities & Preparing for Entry into Public SchoolIf your child has a disability, here is what you need to know about the preparation for entry into public school.
Craft Project for Children with DisabilitiesChildren with disabilities can have fun with the craft project of making a fan from food boxes. Depending on the type of craft, making a craft builds fine motor skills, imagination, and self-esteem in children with disabilities.
Killing Children with Disabilities is Murder, Not Mercy!My emotional and perhaps, controversial "take" on the killing of disabled children.- The Benefits of Inclusive EducationA focused argument detailing why inclusion is the best method for educating students with special needs, and how inclusive education can also benefit typically developing students and regular classroom teachers.
- How to Start a Support Group for Parents of Children with DisabilitiesIdentify the mission and goals of your group to create a strong foundation and direct your group activities.
- Children with Disabilities: How to Deal with Teasing in SchoolIf your child has a disability, he will encounter teasing in school. These are some steps to take to curb the amount of teasing your disabled child will have to endure.
- National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilitiesabout the National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
- Children with Disabilities At-Risk for AbuseChild abuse is quite common among children with disabilities.
- Creating Acceptance/Friendship for Children with Disabilities in a ClassroomFor children with disabilities it is an everyday constant fear; the fear of being picked on.
- Winning Employer Funded DisabilityWhen you develop a disability while working, it can be hard to convince your insurance to pay disability. This article can help you get the disability income you deserve.
- VA Disability Rating ScheduleTrying to figure out your VA disability rating can be confusing and frustrating. Here are a couple of guidelines to help alleviate some of the frustration and aggravation when filing for a VA disability rating.
- Disabilities or Golden OpportunitiesPeople that have disabilities may be able to teach us many lessons. They are courageous, and give the world many smiles throughout the day. Telescopes do see things, and so does the heart.
- Creative Enterprises for Disabled IndividualsRemember disabled or otherwise, you are still a useful vital person to your community. Never lose sight of that.
- What to Expect when You Have Your Disability HearingApplying for Disability can take years to achieve. And once you get a hearing with the judge you may have questions and concerns. This covers many questions you may have.
- Why I Would Not Take a "Magic Pill" to Cure My DisabilityI have often been asked if it were possible to do so, would I take a "magic pill" to cure my disability. The short answer is no!
- Disability EmploymentWith the rate of disability unemployment growing, researchers and advocates question the Federal government's support of employing persons with disabilities.
- What is Least Restrictive Environment?Least restrictive environment is a principle of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) regarding children with learning disabilities.
- Prepping a Disabled KindergartenerHow I am helping my disabled daughter get ready for her first year in school. A guideline that can be usedand altered at your convenience.
- What Are the Different Types of Disability when Using Insurance?When you suffer a medical setback of any degree it can affect your life in many different ways depending on the severity of the setback.
- Why Associated Content Should Have a Disabilities CategoryI say why I think a disabilities category would be a good idea.
- Disabilities: Visible, Invisible and Doubly InvisibleI describe various disabilities, and attempt to categorize them in a way that allows for better understanding
- Why Firms Should Consider Hiring Disabled WorkersImprove your business. Learn the benefits of hiring those who are disabled.
- Disabled Survivors of Haiti Earthquake Face Overwhelming ChallengesThe people of Haiti face many challenges after last week's massive earthquake, but the challenges are even greater for people with disabilities.
- Disabled Americans Are at a Greater Risk for VictimizationWe are all subject to becoming victims of violent crimes, but those who are disabled are more than twice as likely to become victims.
- Classroom Activities to Teach Your Students About DisabilitiesHere are some fun activities to help teach your students about disabled people.
- Only a Perfect Person Has No DisabilityThis article is a perspective view of a person who supports persons with a disability. Every one may have any form of disability.
- Assertiveness Training for Disabled PeopleThis article discusses learned helplessness, people who work with the disabled population and how to effectively empower them
- Disclosing Your DisabilityWhen should you disclose your disability? What about on the job? What about online?
- Being Comfortable with Disabled PeopleHere are some tips to make communicating with a disabled person less awkward.
- Make Playtime Fun for Children with DisabilitiesIf you know a child who has a disability, here are some things that you can do to make playtime more fun for them.
- Advantages of Early Diagnosis of Children with DisabilitiesThis is a piece that tries to encourage us all to face disabilities head-on, and that the truest and best example of humanity is not to shy away from or pretend we don't see struggle, but to jump in and help. That's not charity. It's acceptance.
- Top Private Schools for Children with DisabilitiesChildren with learning disabilities have special needs. Before choosing a school for our daughter, my husband and I researched scores of schools. Check out our list of the best schools North America has to offer.
- I Am NormalThe biggest challenge disabled children face is gaining social acceptance.
- Mentors for Workers with DisabilitiesRead this informative article and learn about the Mentors for Workers With Disabilities program.
NOD National Organization on DisabilityIt's tackled everything from getting the Americans with Disabilities Act passed to securing post-9/11 emergency preparedness for individuals with disabilities. The National Organization on Disability is an advocate for all aspects of disability issues.- IDEA Helps Students with Disabilities SucceedFederal laws to assure equal access to individuals with disabilities are not limited to adults. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) protects children between the ages of three and 21 who have disabilities.
- Reasons to Send Your Kid with a Disability to CampSending a child to a camp can yield a variety of benefits. Kids with disabilities can benefit just the same as those without.
