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Coronavirus and What do Older Adults and People with Disabilities Need to Know?
During the Coronavirus Crisis How Will Schools Provide Special Education??
The Hospital Emergency Room & Autism Spectrum Disorder
What You Should Know About Coronavirus And People With Disabilities
The Benefits and Risks Holds to Disclosure of Autism at Work

The Benefits and Risks Holds to Disclosure of Autism at Work

Autistic people generally want the same things in life that our typical peers do, regardless of where we fall on the spectrum: a sense of purpose, independence, human relationships and things to do. But most of us are unsure how to achieve these objectives. In the past several years, the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) has highlighted research addressing ‘lifespan issues,’ such as housing and employment. The findings confirm what many of us know from […]

During the Coronavirus Crisis How Will Schools Provide Special Education??

With a pandemic pressing tens of thousands of the nation’s school districts into extended closures, special education administrators across the nation are wrestling with a weighty dilemma: how to provide services to students with disabilities. Federal law mandates that individuals with disabilities have an equal opportunity to participate in everything schools provide—including online learning. But a mix of factors—lack of clarity in state laws, unclear guidance from the U.S. Department of Education, and a reluctance […]

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 […]

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

During the Coronavirus Crisis How Will Schools Provide Special Education??

The Hospital Emergency Room & Autism Spectrum Disorder

What You Should Know About Coronavirus And People With Disabilities

The Benefits and Risks Holds to Disclosure of Autism at Work

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.

Senators Introduce Allied Health Workforce Diversity Act

Autism, ADHD is Again Associated with Acetaminophen (Tylenol)

Could Acting Classes Help Kids with Autism

Come for the Coffee, Stay for the Company

Valentine’s Day For Couples with Disabilities

Forgetting Milestones and Learning to Measure Progress…a New Way of Thinking! #Overcoming — Part 2