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  • Eagles Autism Foundation contributes $3.1 million to fund 8 pilot studies and 10 community projects
  • COVID-19 hospitalization, death tied to intellectual disability, obesity
  • Top 10 Reasons to Hire a Person with a Disability
  • How first responders command the emergency: When someone with special needs goes missing
  • After year adrift Special-needs children still seek help
  • Preparing for Your Child’s Next IEP Meeting
  • People with disabilities direct service providers what they need to know about COVID-19?
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Eagles Autism Foundation contributes $3.1 million to fund 8 pilot studies and 10 community projects

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

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

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After year adrift Special-needs children still seek help

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

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  1. Eagles Autism Foundation contributes $3.1 million to fund 8 pilot studies and 10 community projects
  2. COVID-19 hospitalization, death tied to intellectual disability, obesity
  3. How first responders command the emergency: When someone with special needs goes missing
  4. After year adrift Special-needs children still seek help
  5. People with disabilities direct service providers what they need to know about COVID-19?

Featured Articles

Eagles Autism Foundation contributes $3.1 million to fund 8 pilot studies and 10 community projects

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

In The News

Top 10 Reasons to Hire a Person with a Disability

Preparing for Your Child’s Next IEP Meeting

Organizations Can Join “America Saves Week” in February

Exceptional Blog

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

Tricks and tips for safe pumpkin carving

How to Wear Cloth Face Coverings

Coventry Down’s syndrome campaigner gets married as restrictions ease

eParent connect

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

The call comes into the police department for a missing person. Sometimes it’s regarding an adult who didn’t show up for work. It might be a teenager who has run away from home. It might be a child who got separated from their parents while on an outing. Police train for these kinds of missing person cases. But what happens when the missing person has special needs and may be unable to communicate with authorities? […]

  • People with disabilities direct service providers what they need to know about COVID-19?
  • Often Overlooked In Pandemic Response Are People With Intellectual Disabilities
  • A Dating Study – Love on the Spectrum
  • Symptoms of Down Syndrome in Babies and Children
  • A Baby’s Chances Of Having Down Syndrome
  • Special Needs Students Requirements Are Much Greater For Back To School
  • Ways to Engage Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities to Stem ‘COVID Slide’ During Online Schooling.

Healthcare

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

Intellectual disability is second only to old age as a risk factor for COVID-19 death, and obesity is linked to coronavirus-related hospitalization and death, two new studies find. Deadlier than heart, kidney, lung disease The first study, led by researchers from Jefferson Health in Philadelphia and published late last week as a commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst, involved analyzing the medical records of 558,672 US COVID-19 patients from January 2019 to […]

  • Advocates Encourage the Autism and I/DD Community to be Prioritized for COVID-19 Vaccination
  • Managing Epilepsy in Patients With Intellectual Disability
  • Study Advocate New Therapeutic Approach for Autism Spectrum Disorders
  • Studying Baby Steps Could Lead To Better Treatments For Cerebral Palsy
  • Uncertainty Is Specially Hard For Special-Needs Children During the Virus Lockdown
  • Possible new therapeutic treatments for intellectual disability in Down syndrome
  • Unlocking the Genetics of Autism Spectrum Disorder

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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 […]

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  • 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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Wellness

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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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ACHIEVING A BETTER LIFE EXPERIENCE (ABLE) ACCOUNTS — 2021 Edition

INFORMATION ABOUT TAX-FREE SAVING ACCOUNTS FOR DISABLED INDIVIDUALS The Stephen Beck, Jr., Achieving a Better Life Experience Act (ABLE) became law on December 19, 2014. The law aims to ease financial strains faced by individuals with disabilities by making tax-free saving accounts available to cover qualified disability expenses. IMPORTANT FACTS TO KNOW ABOUT THE ABLE ACT The designated beneficiary of an ABLE account is the eligible individual who owns the ABLE account. He or she […]

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  • ABLE-eligible individuals may want to save all or a portion of their stimulus payment in a tax-advantaged ABLEnow account.
  • Global Mental Health & Intellectual Disability Facilities Industry
  • ABLE Accounts, Changes and COVID-19
  • Adults with Special Needs Housing Alternatives
  • A Financial Planning Guide for Parents of a Child with Special Needs
  • Tax Planning for Families of Special Needs Children

Mobility

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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  • 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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Military

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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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  • Tax Breaks for Families with Special Needs
  • 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

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

Direct Service Providers (DSPs) include personal care attendants, direct support professionals, paraprofessionals, therapists, and others. They provide a wide variety of home and community-based, health-related services that support people with disabilitiesexternal icon. Services provided may include personal care, activities of daily living, access to health services, and more. DSPs have close and consistent contact with people with disabilities and those providing healthcare support services in day and residential programs for people with disabilities. DSPs are […]

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