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A Child with ADHD Can Be Frustrated by Homework

If your child has ADHD, you may feel a sense of dread or frustration at the mere mention of homework. Most likely, this is a challenging time in your household and you may not be sure why or how to handle it.  Here’s why homework can be incredibly frustrating for children with ADHD, and how

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Bathing a Child with Sensory Processing Disorder

As parents and attendants, you most likely know what a challenge bathing a child with Sensory Processing Disorder or SPC can be for everyone involved. The various factors that go into a bath, the different sounds, activities, and textures can therefore, be rather taxing for both the adult and child. The following tips will assist

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Assistive Technology: ‘BIG Blue’-Tooth Keyboard

One of our goals is to highlight assistive technology that may be useful to those with special needs. Today, we present RJ Cooper’s ‘BIG Blue’-Tooth Keyboard. This keyboard is wireless to protect against cord-tugging and accommodate restlessness, and has big 1″ keys for easy discovery and use (keys available in either colored rows or yellow). It

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Moms In Motion Case Study: Christopher Jors

Let me preface this by stating that we are a success story. I have come to realize that things happen for a reason and sometimes, by luck and chance, you stumble upon something or someone who can offer you help. Not when you are looking but when you desperately need it, even when you don’t

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Find Temporary Respite Care at Jill’s House

Any parent and caretaker of a child or children with disabilities would say that caring for them is, first and foremost, a labor of love. But that doesn’t mean that the emotional, psychological, and physical strains don’t happen. And if other children—with or without disabilities—are involved, the strains are that much greater. Always, there is

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All Waivers Reminder

Reminder: If you have stayed in a hospital, rehabilitation center/nursing, psychiatric facility for more than 30 days or an in-patient for 1 or more days – Let your Service Facilitator know!Your community-based approvals have been interrupted (you are still eligible, no screening required) and need to be restarted – an immediate visit with your Service

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Rising Epilepsy Treatment

Epilepsy is the world’s fourth most common neurological illness. Epilepsy is a neurological condition characterized by recurrent, spontaneous seizures. Abnormal electrical discharges in a group of brain cells cause seizures. Such discharges can occur in many areas of the brain. Causes of Epilepsy Even though various underlying disease mechanisms can cause epilepsy, the condition’s origin

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Epilepsy in Communities of Color

Epilepsy is the world’s fourth most common neurological illness. Epilepsy is a neurological condition characterized by recurrent, spontaneous seizures. Abnormal electrical discharges in a group of brain cells cause seizures. Such discharges can occur in many areas of the brain. In the United States, an estimated 25,000 African Americans receive a new epilepsy diagnosis each

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Congenital Heart Defects

The Facts on Congenital Heart Defects Over 1.4 million children and adults in the United States currently suffer from congenital cardiac abnormalities. Present at birth, this particular heart condition is a defect or abnormality rather than a disease. Congenital heart defects (CHD) are caused by abnormal prenatal development of the heart or blood arteries close

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