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.
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Here is one family’s story about how they handled an opportunity to educate neurotypical children about disabilities.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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With every passing year in the world of being a parent of a child with special health care needs, you have the day to day struggles, the fun holidays, and some surprises. Good and bad.
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It's important for my family to have only supportive people in our circle. Connecting with other parents and parent groups made a huge difference. Here's how.
Categories: Family Support