How to Raise Funds for Children with Disabilities

NEW RESOURCE BY MELANIE DAVIS The Funding Guide for Children with Disabilities focuses on the author’s proven process for applying for support from the various funding sources that assist children. It also includes a directory of over 200 funding sources divided into three categories: National, State and Wish Funders. For more than a decade, Tamara Simmons has been assisting families in raising the funds they lack to cover assistive technology and other expenses for their […]

THE FALLEN HERO GUARDIAN ANGELS

As the centerpiece of the One Million Rounds fundraising and awareness project, a life-size sculpture of the art is being created to go on tour in both England and the U.S. as an international campaign for our veterans. The Fallen Hero Guardian Angels art was commissioned by Melanie Davis to reflect the stories of miraculous protection she was hearing as she wrote The Triumph Book: HEROES, 27 first person accounts from veterans spanning the decades […]

How Team Sports Benefit Students With Special Needs

BY HELENE SCHORR, M.S. AND ERIN VLASAK, M.S. HOW CAN WE ENCOURAGE AND MOTIVATE SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS, ESPECIALLY THOSE ON THE AUTISM SPECTRUM, TO MAKE SOME TYPE OF EXERCISE OR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY PART OF THEIR WEEKLY ROUTINE? Many students with special needs have had a hard time throughout their schooling when it comes to physical education, especially organized team sports. This negative feeling towards sports and physical activity can carry over through adulthood. As we […]

ep Website Re-launch: Understanding the redesign

ep today unveils a dramatic redesign of its Website which debuts with its annual autism issue. The updated Website marks the second step in a rolling redesign of eparent.com, which began with the combined re-architecture of “ep special needs connect.” The ep website redesign enhances the aesthetics of eparent.com, while fostering participation and interactivity between readers, content creators and marketers in order to meet the demands of a new and evolving media in the special […]

Don’t Need Government Benefits? Create a Financial Strategy As Though You Do.

If you have a child with special needs who’s nearing adulthood, you may hear that you should take precautions to protect eligibility for government benefits. But what if you don’t want or need those benefits for your child? “Even if you believe you have plenty of money to care for your child,” says Lea Bancroft, MSFS, CLU, ChFC, ChSNC, a Special Care Planner1 associated with MassMutual Rochester2 in Rochester, New York, a general agency of […]