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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
Despite doctors’ recommendations, parents know their child best and must do what is right for their child and family.
Categories: Diagnosis & Healthcare, Family Support
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
Making the decision to use medication to help manage our child’s disabilities was a complex decision. A hard decision to make. There are advantages and risks. For our son, it has made a huge difference.
Categories: Diagnosis & Healthcare, Family Support
A school-based setting may not work well for your child with disabilities. It didn’t for our son. We tried homeschooling and found it suited him much better.
Categories: Education & Schools
We know that kids who have more intense needs are sometimes a challenge. It adds to that challenge when extended family (or close friends) do not understand or are dismissive of the disabilities of our children.
Categories: Family Support
Our 6-year-old came home with lice! But then I launched into “Operation:” for our son.
Categories: Diagnosis & Healthcare
When you have a child with mental illness, the road is long and hard. Finding a lifeline—someone who knows what it is like—can make all the difference.
Categories: Family Support
The daily struggles of raising a child with a disability can cause immense stress. But one look at that little smile makes it worth it.
Categories: Family Support
The decision to medicate your child, especially when they are quite young, is a hard one. But sometimes, it is the best thing to help them.
Categories: Diagnosis & Healthcare, Family Support
Some disabilities make it hard for children to interact. Here is one mother’s experience with how she helps her son make friends.
Categories: Family Support