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  • Regular Exercise Is More Important Than Ever For Children With Disabilities
  • Study Advocate New Therapeutic Approach for Autism Spectrum Disorders
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  • ABLE Accounts, Changes and COVID-19
  • Coventry Down’s syndrome campaigner gets married as restrictions ease
  • Why Training is Needed: Law Enforcement and Autism
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Regular Exercise Is More Important Than Ever For Children With Disabilities

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Study Advocate New Therapeutic Approach for Autism Spectrum Disorders

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Why Training is Needed: Law Enforcement and Autism

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Regular Exercise Is More Important Than Ever For Children With Disabilities

Study Advocate New Therapeutic Approach for Autism Spectrum Disorders

School Decision-Making Tool for Parents, Caregivers, and Guardians

ABLE Accounts, Changes and COVID-19

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How to Wear Cloth Face Coverings

Coventry Down’s syndrome campaigner gets married as restrictions ease

Corona Virus: A Book for Children (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)

Helping those with autism during Coronavirus “stay in place”

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School Decision-Making Tool for Parents, Caregivers, and Guardians

Many parents, caregivers, and guardians face new and difficult choices about how their child will return to school in the fall, such as deciding between in-person and virtual learning. This tool is designed to help parents, caregivers, and guardians weigh the risks and benefits of available educational options to help them make decisions about sending their child back to school. It is organized to provide parents and caregivers with: Information on COVID-19 and why safely […]

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  • COVID-19 Effecting People With Intellectual Disabilities
  • The Benefits and Risks Holds to Disclosure of Autism at Work
  • Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)… Frequently Asked Questions and Answers

Healthcare

Study Advocate New Therapeutic Approach for Autism Spectrum Disorders

The social impairments associated with autism spectrum disorder actually may be driven by sensory neurons found outside the brain, according to new research conducted by Penn Medicine. The loss of a particular protein, neurofibromin 1, disrupts peripheral neurons that control how people perceive the environment around them, including their senses of smell and touch. This finding suggests there may be a more accessible therapeutic approach to treating ASD-related symptoms, researchers said. New therapies could restore social behaviors […]

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  • Unlocking the Genetics of Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • What You Should Know About Coronavirus And People With Disabilities
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  • Fetal surgery benefits to repair spina bifida persist through school age

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National Autism Indicators Report: The Connection Between Autism and Financial Hardship

An autism diagnosis can present a number of challenges for families from learning about the neurodevelopment disorder and accessing support services and resources to financial struggles. A new report from the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute at Drexel University highlighted the financial challenges facing households of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the United States. According to the report, households of children with ASD experience higher levels of poverty, material hardship and medical expenses than […]

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Regular Exercise Is More Important Than Ever For Children With Disabilities

Buxton Gitimu, 11, lives with his family in Huruma informal settlement, Nairobi. One of his favourite things to do is playing football with his brother Joseph. The boys are very close. Together, they race around a football field at Salama Primary School with their coach, practicing tackles and other moves. Afterwards, they do keepy uppies, counting to see how long they can keep the ball in the air. The football field is normally full of […]

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  • Why it may be more difficult for individuals with ASD to Maintain a Healthy Weight
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  • The Challenge of Physical Fitness for People with Autism
  • 10,000 Steps Versus Exercise
  • Let’s Talk About STRESS

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ABLE Accounts, Changes and COVID-19

While each individual and family situation is different, we all share a common concern around our financial future during the COVID-19 crisis. This situation affects everyone’s lives at all levels and will continue to impact household finances for a lengthy period of time. Depending on your own specific and unique circumstances, your need to respond will vary. In this blog, the ABLE National Resource Center will share actions for you to consider, resources, stories and […]

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  • A Financial Planning Guide for Parents of a Child with Special Needs
  • Tax Planning for Families of Special Needs Children
  • How to Receive Financial Compensation via Medicaid to Provide Care for a Loved One
  • 5 Reasons to Consider a Special Needs Trust
  • How ABLE Accounts Support Special-Needs Children and Their Families
  • ABLE Accounts and Special Needs Trusts Can Be a Winning Combination

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Assistive Technology Help

YOU might say it all started with spell-check. In the 1980s, with the introduction of word processing programs like WordPerfect, it became apparent that computerized proofreaders could come to the rescue of struggling spellers and bad typists. Thirty years later, an ever-growing array of assistive technology is available to help students read, write term papers and take tests. From pens that can remember to text that can talk, such technologies are now being held up […]

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  • Holiday Travel Tips for People with Disabilities
  • From the Ground Up: Optimal Flooring Choices for Homes With Wheelchair Use
  • A More Accessible Home for a More Inclusive Family
  • Dyspraxia – Movement Difficulties in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Editorials By Rick Rader, MD

Dr. Rader Presented Move to Include Award

American Academy of Developmental Medicine & Dentistry (AADMD) presented the Move to Include Award to Rick Rader, MD, Director, of the Morton J. Kent Habilitation Center, Orange Grove Center on June 29, 2018 at the AADMD 1 Voice Conference in Seattle Washington. Dr. Rader was presented the award for believing and acting in the purest realm of the essence of “move of include,” believing in the sanctity, value and merit of “together,” and knowing that […]

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Heads Up for Vets: A collaboration between AKF and the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Epilepsy Centers of Excellence

Many of our brave servicemen and women are returning home from active duty with a new war to wage: a battle to control seizures and epilepsy. They were there for us…now it’s time for us to be there for them. Returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan have been exposed to blasts from IEDs (improvised explosive devices), land mines, rocket-propelled grenades and suicide bombers. Blast exposure has left too many of these troops suffering with Traumatic […]

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  • Keep Your Relationship Strong: 8 Tips for Military Parents Raising Children With Special Needs
  • Benefits for Military Families with Special Needs
  • Relocation (“PCS”) for Military Families with Children of Special Needs
  • Special Education Programs and Resources for Military Families
  • Military Families: How You Can Advocate for Your Child with Special Needs

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Parenting

School Decision-Making Tool for Parents, Caregivers, and Guardians

Many parents, caregivers, and guardians face new and difficult choices about how their child will return to school in the fall, such as deciding between in-person and virtual learning. This tool is designed to help parents, caregivers, and guardians weigh the risks and benefits of available educational options to help them make decisions about sending their child back to school. It is organized to provide parents and caregivers with: Information on COVID-19 and why safely […]

What’s Happening

IBCCES launches teletherapy training, certification program to help children with autism, special needs

Momentum Building for Making Telehealth Authority Permanent

Funding Available for COVID-19 Needs

New Policy at Twitter bans posts that ‘dehumanize’ people in connection with diseases

NIH-funded effort may help people with intellectual disability participate in clinical studies

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