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  • Advocates Encourage the Autism and I/DD Community to be Prioritized for COVID-19 Vaccination
  • In What Ways Will Schools Pay for Special Ed. Students Services
  • Parent-teacher relationship in special education transforms during COVID
  • Managing Epilepsy in Patients With Intellectual Disability
  • Symptoms of Down Syndrome in Babies and Children
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Global Mental Health & Intellectual Disability Facilities Industry

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Encourage the Autism and I/DD Community to be Prioritized for COVID-19 Vaccination

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Advocates Encourage the Autism and I/DD Community to be Prioritized for COVID-19 Vaccination

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In What Ways Will Schools Pay for Special Ed. Students Services

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Parent-teacher relationship in special education transforms during COVID

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  4. In What Ways Will Schools Pay for Special Ed. Students Services
  5. Parent-teacher relationship in special education transforms during COVID

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Global Mental Health & Intellectual Disability Facilities Industry

Encourage the Autism and I/DD Community to be Prioritized for COVID-19 Vaccination

Advocates Encourage the Autism and I/DD Community to be Prioritized for COVID-19 Vaccination

In What Ways Will Schools Pay for Special Ed. Students Services

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Symptoms of Down Syndrome in Babies and Children

Approximately one in 700 babies is born with Down syndrome, making it the most common chromosomal condition in the United States. “People with Down syndrome have an extra copy of chromosome 21,” says Amy Houtrow, M.D., Ph.D., medical director of Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC’s Rehabilitation Institute and member of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP) Council on Children with Disabilities. This additional genetic material disrupts typical mental and physical development, and it may […]

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Advocates Encourage the Autism and I/DD Community to be Prioritized for COVID-19 Vaccination

The Autism Society of America applauds the global scientific and medical community for developing 95% effective COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, where Pfizer/BioNTech has already received approval for emergency use authorization (EUA) by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The Autism Society enlisted the support of other national disability organizations to unite and urge the autism community to be vaccinated as distribution becomes possible. Individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities are at a […]

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Encourage the Autism and I/DD Community to be Prioritized for COVID-19 Vaccination

As the leading non-profit corporation focused on advocating for the human, civil and legal rights of people with disabilities in Ohio, Disability Rights Ohio and its partners urge the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) to consider its recommendations as it formulates the state’s COVID-19 Vaccination Plan. While DRO and its partners is encouraged that Phase 1A of the present plan includes the people with intellectual disabilities, as well as those with mental illness, who live […]

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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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Global Mental Health & Intellectual Disability Facilities Industry

Global Mental Health and Intellectual Disability Facilities Market to Reach $239. 6 Billion by 2027. Amid the COVID-19 crisis, the global market for Mental Health and Intellectual Disability Facilities estimated at US$172. Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report “Global Mental Health & Intellectual Disability Facilities Industry” – https://www.reportlinker.com/p05960668/?utm_source=GNW 9 Billion in the year 2020, is projected to reach a revised size of US$239.6 Billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 4.8% over the […]

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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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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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Symptoms of Down Syndrome in Babies and Children

Approximately one in 700 babies is born with Down syndrome, making it the most common chromosomal condition in the United States. “People with Down syndrome have an extra copy of chromosome 21,” says Amy Houtrow, M.D., Ph.D., medical director of Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC’s Rehabilitation Institute and member of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP) Council on Children with Disabilities. This additional genetic material disrupts typical mental and physical development, and it may […]

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