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Why Training is Needed: Law Enforcement and Autism
National Autism Indicators Report: The Connection Between Autism and Financial Hardship
Since Schools Have Closed Parents of Special Needs Children ‘wearing many hats’
Rethinking School Startup for Students with Special Needs
Learning Remotely Is A Struggle For Students With Special Needs

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 […]

Coronavirus and What do Older Adults and People with Disabilities Need to Know?

Older people are more likely to have serious COVID-19 illness. This may be because immune systems change with age, making it harder to fight off diseases and infection. Older adults also are more likely to have underlying health conditions that make it harder to cope with and recover from illness. In addition, people of all ages, with or without disabilities, are at higher risk for getting very sick from COVID-19 if they have serious chronic medical conditions […]

Adults with Special Needs Housing Alternatives

Fifty years ago, most people with even moderate special needs were institutionalized throughout their adult lives. Now, thanks in part to societal changes and decades of litigation, most people with special needs, including those with very severe special needs, live in some type of community setting. In fact, the U.S. Supreme Court has specifically ruled that people with special needs who receive government benefits must be housed in the least restrictive possible setting. Here are […]

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 […]

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 […]

Why Training is Needed: Law Enforcement and Autism

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

Since Schools Have Closed Parents of Special Needs Children ‘wearing many hats’

Rethinking School Startup for Students with Special Needs

Learning Remotely Is A Struggle For Students With Special Needs

Caldwell teachers union fights changes to special education program

FDA Provides Update on Activities Related to Coronavirus

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)… Frequently Asked Questions and Answers

Mesa, AZ Becomes First-Ever Autism Certified City in U.S.

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

Helping those with autism during Coronavirus “stay in place”

Could Acting Classes Help Kids with Autism