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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
Brown, Callahan, Comanche, Eastland, Fisher, Haskell, Jones, Knox, Mitchell, Nolan, Palo Pinto, Shackelford, Stephens, Stonewall, Taylor
Healthcare decisions should be based on the needs of patients, not their age. Pediatric patients are treated based on their size. The right dose of medicine is determined using their height and weight. Equipment is sized for their safety and comfort.
Categories: Diagnosis & Health Care
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
It’s hard to make new friends as an adult and the parent of a child with disabilities. However, parent-to-parent support is alive and well on the internet!
Categories: Family Support
From the moment Camila was born, I knew she would change my world. But it was not until third grade when she made the comment “I don’t want to live anymore” that I realized things were not right.
Categories: Family Support, Education & Schools
Parenting a child with a disability usually means sleep deprivation. Learning how to get sleep when and however you can be challenging. Here are my tips for getting sleep.
Categories: Family Support
As an adoptee and adopter, I have experienced the trauma associated with adoption firsthand.
Categories: Family Support
When a grandparent loses a grandchild, they grieve twice. Once for the child lost and once for their own child’s loss.
Categories: Family Support
Life lessons one mom learned from being her daughter’s mother and caregiver.
Categories: Family Support
One doctor can be a hero to one family and an absolute failure for another family. Here is one family’s story.
Categories: Diagnosis & Health Care, Family Support