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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
Self-care is one of the most important things you can do for yourself and your family.
Categories: Family Support
After becoming a parent to a child with special health care needs, a lot changes. Some of these changes include your friendships and relationships with people outside of your home. You make some new friends, but sadly, some relationships don’t survive. In some cases, relationships can even become toxic. Here are some tips and suggestions for nurturing healthy relationships and what to do with those that are not.
Categories: Family Support
Parents of children with disabilities must make a difficult decision of whether or not to medicate their children to help them through their daily lives.
Categories: Diagnosis & Health Care, Family Support
Adding or changing to a new doctor means answering lots of questions about your child’s medical history. There is so much to remember. It’s not possible to keep it all in your head. Creating a care notebook that you can share with a health care provider makes it easier for everyone.
Categories: Diagnosis & Health Care
One of my family members once asked me a question that I couldn't answer. Later, I could not stop thinking about what I wished I would have said. But now I know and the answer is hope.
Categories: Family Support
This is another favorite song of mine, right behind “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” Sometimes we just need to look around to see the true wonders of the world.
Categories: Family Support
If you're familiar with the Admission, Review and Dismissal (ARD) process, you know there are certain people who must be invited to attend. But did you know that you, the parent, can also invite people to attend the meeting if they have an educational interest in your child?
Categories: Education & Schools
We never want to think or talk about it, but how prepared are you for the future if something were to happen to you or your spouse? Who would look after your child with special health care needs and what important things would they need to know?
Categories: Diagnosis & Health Care, Family Support
My son is going to school. Will he have friends? Will kids know him for the great kid he really is? Why am I so afraid?
Categories: Family Support
You don’t need to do everything yourself. Resources are there to help you–use them.
Categories: Family Support