Tag: Intellectual disability

Schools Must Protect Students with Disabilities from Sexual Harassment

eParent Connect, Featured Topics 08/16/201908/15/2019 admin

Supporting students with disabilities means addressing sexual harassment, including sexual assault. Students with disabilities are more likely than their peers to experience sexual harassment, less likely to report it, and more likely to be pushed out of school as a result of sexual harassment. Schools must meet their obligations to address sexual harassment under both Title IX—the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in schools—and laws that protect the civil rights of students with disabilities. […]

Disability-Inclusive Communities

Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, eParent Connect, Epilepsy, Featured Topics, Intellectual Disability, Learning Disabilities, Muscular Dystrophy 07/29/201907/27/2019 admin

July 26, 2019 marks the 29th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a civil rights law that promotes the inclusion of people with disabilities at work, school, or other community settings. Learn what CDC is doing to include people with disabilities in public health research and health promotion activities. An estimated 61 million people are living with a disability in the United States,1 and many people will experience a disability at some time […]

Strategies for July 4th for Special Needs Kids

Featured Topics, What's Happening 07/02/201907/02/2019 admin

The 4th of July is an exciting holiday, but for special needs kids it can all be a bit too much. Think about it: fireworks are basically EXPLOSIONS! Things blowing up can be challenging for someone who is sensitive to loud noises. Also, fireworks can’t happen until nightfall, which may mean staying up late. For typical kids that may be a treat, but some special needs kids find a disruption in daily routine very upsetting. […]

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

In The News, Intellectual Disability 06/20/201906/20/2019 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 06/18/201906/18/2019 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 […]