While employment is the goal, it’s important not to let our kids get stuck in a dead-end job.
Categories: Family Support, Transition to Adulthood
Creating the future you dream of for your son or daughter doesn’t have to be scary. But it may require personal growth and advocacy.
Categories: Family Support, Transition to Adulthood
While parents may dread their child’s annual Admission, Review, and Dismissal (ARD) meeting, planning before the meeting helps our children be more successful in school.
Categories: Education & Schools
Despite doctors’ recommendations, parents know their child best and must do what is right for their child and family.
Categories: Diagnosis & Health Care, Family Support
We all long for a place to call home. Here’s a look at how to get started on creating a home for your child when they are an adult.
Categories: Transition to Adulthood
As the mother of a child with several diagnoses, every day can bring both new and familiar challenges. There is much written about how we deal with those. But how about the successes? Are we as familiar with them?
Categories: Family Support
Parents of children with disabilities often ask me about programs that help cover the cost of the items their kid needs. Here are a few places to start looking for financial assistance.
Categories: Family Support
There is a saying, “The days are long, but the years are short.” That is a very true statement for our family. Our daughter began her life in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and look at her now!
Categories: Family Support
To celebrate, or not to celebrate? That is the autism question.
Categories: Family Support
Back in the 1970s, there was a song called “Superman” by Donna Fargo with the line, “your hang-ups keep messing with mine…” I can so relate to that phrase!
Categories: Family Support