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COVID-19 hospitalization, death tied to intellectual disability, obesity
How first responders command the emergency: When someone with special needs goes missing
After year adrift Special-needs children still seek help
People with disabilities direct service providers what they need to know about COVID-19?
Often Overlooked In Pandemic Response Are People With Intellectual Disabilities

After year adrift Special-needs children still seek help

One year after schools shuttered, the fears of many parents of California’s special-needs students have been realized. Many of those students — whose disabilities can range from autism to deafness, and most of whom have gone more than a year without in-person services such as speech therapy — appear to have regressed physically and academically. “No one is publicly saying, ‘Hey guys, all hands on deck, we need to rally around these kids, we can’t let them fail,’” said […]

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 […]

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 […]

COVID-19 hospitalization, death tied to intellectual disability, obesity

How first responders command the emergency: When someone with special needs goes missing

After year adrift Special-needs children still seek help

People with disabilities direct service providers what they need to know about COVID-19?

Organizations Can Join “America Saves Week” in February

Woman with Down syndrome models for skincare line

Trump Recognizes Down Syndrome Awareness Month

ABLE-eligible individuals may want to save all or a portion of their stimulus payment in a tax-advantaged ABLEnow account.

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How to Wear Cloth Face Coverings

Coventry Down’s syndrome campaigner gets married as restrictions ease