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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
Traveling with kids with disabilities can be challenging. We learned camping was a good activity for our family.
Categories: Family Support
Being a parent and raising a child into adulthood comes with great responsibility. This sense of responsibility can be accompanied by more worry for the parent or caregiver of a child with a disability.
Categories: Family Support
As your child ages, deciding when to speak up and when to step back can be difficult.
Categories: Family Support
My partner and I try to get away for a weekend at least once a year to share some quality time without the kids.
Categories: Family Support
Advocating for my son takes many forms, one of which is talking to strangers about medical equipment.
Categories: Family Support
The A Look Ahead (ALA) Conference Series is a collaboration between four non-profit organizations - The Arc of DFW (Dallas Fort Worth) Area, The Self-Determination Group, First United Methodist Church of Arlington, and Families for Effective Autism Treatment North Texas. It was established in 2015 and is held four times per year.
Categories: Transition to Adulthood
I have recently noticed a new trend. I’ve heard the term nonspeaking used in popular media. Nonspeaking was used in place of the term nonverbal to describe a person who communicates without talking.
Categories: Family Support
One of the more frustrating but necessary parts of having a child with high medical needs is that your house has a revolving door of strangers coming and going.
Categories: Family Support
During a recent checkup, I was asked, “How do you take care of yourself? I know you work a lot, and you’re a mom - but what about you?” I was caught off-guard.
Categories: Family Support
A boy's movie buddies become lifelong friends.
Categories: Family Support