Finding help when moving away from family and friends can be a challenge, especially if you have a child with disabilities.
Categories: Family Support
Learn about the grief and loss a parent can feel when mourning the child they envisioned they would have.
Categories: Family Support
Here is one family’s story about how they handled an opportunity to educate neurotypical children about disabilities.
Categories: Family Support
Life is great when we have cable and Internet service. But if both cable and internet go out at the same time – Houston, we have a problem!
Categories: Family Support
One mom shares what it takes to make her daughter successful at work.
Categories: Transition to Adulthood
Bullying happens. Even as adults, we might become victims of bullying, or might be the bully ourselves. We are responsible not only to defend against bullying, but to make sure our own behaviors don’t cross that bullying line.
Categories: Family Support
Seizure disorders can have a major impact on quality of life. We have 2 members of our family who have seizures – my husband and son. While we were able to control my son’s seizures with medication, nothing was working for my husband. However, there are specialists and treatment options that can make a difference.
Categories: Diagnosis & Health Care
We branched out and participated in a typical four-year-old activity and it all worked out. With a little patience and a lot of creativity, your child with a disability can participate in typical activities with their peers.
Categories: Family Support
Deciding to put your child on a medication is a tough decision. But a change in perspective helped our family with their decision.
Categories: Diagnosis & Health Care, Family Support
We have all found ourselves, at one point or another, comparing our child or our situation to another. The grass is always greener and you want what you can’t have—all phrases we have heard. Sometimes we must remind ourselves that we are all doing the best we can and we need to support one another and focus on the similarities, not the differences.
Categories: Family Support