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Navigate Life Texas: Resources for kids with disabilities and special needs
Navigate Life Texas: Resources for kids with disabilities and special needs
It can be easy to isolate yourself when your child is first diagnosed with a disability. Taking the time to meet other parents can help reduce stress and guide you to other support services.
Categories: Family Support
Brushing your child’s teeth from an early age can keep them healthy and their teeth strong. Children with disabilities often need extra help with oral hygiene.
Categories: Diagnosis & Health Care
As a parent of an older son with disabilities, I have struggled with his education in math and reading for most of his school career. As parents, we sometimes have unrealistic goals for our children. However, at some point, we must pause and think about the future.
Categories: Transition to Adulthood
If your child has a meltdown away from home, it’s important to have a plan for how to handle things. What will you do if your child becomes physical toward you or someone else?
Categories: Family Support
Today, people with disabilities have more options than ever before. They can attend college, go to work and live independently. But they need a good start through school and community experiences. As a hands-on and informed parent, you can help your child gain the skills they need for self-determination.
Categories: Transition to Adulthood
In Texas, when a child with a disability turns 14, they should begin attending Individualized Education Program (IEP) meetings with their parents. It’s the time to create a Transition Plan for life after high school.
Categories: Transition to Adulthood
Our son with disabilities is now 22 years old. Since the time he first got services through a Medicaid waiver, I feared the loss of those services due to a mistake or mishap. Without these waiver services, we would be in a world of hurt.
Categories: Transition to Adulthood
I’ll readily admit that I am burnt out. Taking care of my son with disabilities is physically, emotionally and mentally exhausting.
Categories: Family Support
As parents of kids with disabilities, we deserve to have information explained to us in a way we can understand, not by being talked down to.
Categories: Family Support
It’s harder to find resources for our son now that he’s 22 and has graduated from the public school special education system.
Categories: Transition to Adulthood