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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
Teaching your child to be as independent as possible helps them grow toward their greatest potential. Here are some ways to do it.
Categories: Transition to Adulthood
The Home and Community-Based Services Waiver (HCS) has made a huge difference in the way services can be provided to people with intellectual and physical disabilities. It has improved their lives.
Categories: Transition to Adulthood
Before I had my son, I was a special education teacher. I was one of those teachers who believed that these "special" kids needed to be kept safe. After teaching in a self-contained special education class, my views slowly started to change.
Categories: Family Support, Education & Schools, Transition to Adulthood
Children grow up having dreams—dreams of being a princess or a football player or a doctor or a teacher. They have so many dreams. The world is their oyster. When your child has a disability, those dreams are different.
Categories: Family Support, Transition to Adulthood
I'm very good at getting what is right for my son. Conflict doesn’t scare me a bit.
Categories: Transition to Adulthood
I got to sit on a panel discussion for disability-related issues. In addition to another parent, there were three adults with a variety of disabilities who shared their experience on everything from doctors to their time in college.
Categories: Family Support, Transition to Adulthood
People with disabilities are often told what they can and can't do based on what other people think is right/wrong or safe/unsafe.
Categories: Family Support, Transition to Adulthood
My teenage son has ADHD and wants to get his driver’s license. But I am not sure he's ready.
Categories: Transition to Adulthood
A support group became a wonderful place for our child with social communication disabilities to form lasting friendships.
Categories: Family Support, Transition to Adulthood
My daughter had a date coming up. She was going to dinner at a restaurant with a young man. But first there was work to do.
Categories: Transition to Adulthood