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Comparing the Economic and Social Prevalence Among Special Needs Children who received health insurance through Medicaid/CHIP

ADHA, Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, Epilepsy, Featured Topics, Healthcare, Intellectual Disability, Muscular Dystrophy 07/05/2019 admin

The Kaiser Family Foundation has released an issue brief (below) with an in-depth analysis comparing the economic and social prevalence among special needs children who received health insurance through Medicaid/CHIP, private insurance, a combination of Medicaid/CHIP and private insurance, or who are uninsured. The analysis from Kaiser shows that children with special needs who benefit from Medicaid/CHIP have increased health access and their families experience lower financial burden in comparison to their counterparts. In addition, financial […]

2,000 human brains yield clues to how genes raise risk for mental illnesses

In The News, Intellectual Disability 06/20/2019 admin

Artificial intelligence model improves prediction six-fold It’s one thing to detect sites in the genome associated with mental disorders; it’s quite another to discover the biological mechanisms by which these changes in DNA work in the human brain to boost risk. In their first concerted effort to tackle the latter, 15 collaborating research teams of the National Institutes of Health-funded PsychENCODE Consortium (link is external) leveraged statistical power gained from a large sample of about […]

Many Are Replacing Disability Checks With Paychecks

Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, Dyslexia, eParent Connect, Epilepsy, Featured Topics, Intellectual Disability, Multiple Sclerosis, Muscular Dystrophy 06/18/2019 admin

Heard on All Things Considered Scott Horsley Main Photo: Dani Izzie at her home in rural Virginia. More than a decade ago, she slipped in the bathroom and suffered a spinal cord injury that has left her unable to walk. She works as a social media manager for Spinergy, a company that makes high-performance wheels for wheelchairs. Greg Kahn for NPR During and after the Great Recession, people turned to disability rolls in large numbers […]

Teaching Bathing and Dressing Skills for Dual Diagnosis Children

Autism, Down Syndrome, eParent Connect, Featured Topics, Intellectual Disability, Learning Disabilities 06/10/2019 admin

As children grow and develop, they generally progress through learning a variety of self-help skills, such as dressing and undressing and taking a bath or shower unassisted. For your child who has a visual impairment and multiple disabilities, learning these skills may take longer than her typically developing siblings or age mates. In fact, she may always need support from you or someone else to complete these tasks. However, it is important that she learn […]

How ABLE Accounts Support Special-Needs Children and Their Families

Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, Dyslexia, Epilepsy, Featured Topics, Intellectual Disability, Money, Muscular Dystrophy 06/05/2019 admin

BY Dawn Doebler, MBA, CPA, CFP®, CDFA®, Senior Wealth Advisor ABLE accounts are an important planning tool alongside more-traditional techniques such as special-needs trusts. One financial challenge that many families with special-needs children confront is funding the ever-growing expenses that their child may need over their lifetime. With additional costs of important medical and support care often reaching over $100,000 per year for a special-needs child, many families look to special government programs to fill […]