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Helping Individuals With Developmental Disabilities and Their Families
Helping Individuals With Developmental Disabilities and Their Families
Resource Guide for Children with Developmental Disabilities
This resource guide may help you locate health professionals, special services, and sources of funding to cover the needs and costs of children with developmental disabilities.
What It Means to Be an Ally for People with Developmental Disabilities
What does an ally look like to you? Anyone can be an ally, and Jay Nolan Community Services is full of people ready to be that support.
What is a Developmental Disability?
Kari (who has a Developmental Disability) explains what a Developmental Disability actually is and is not (ID: a woman with white hair, facial wrinkles and light skin wearing sun glasses, holding a hearing aid to her ear. The back drop is light rainbow)
What Does It Mean If My Child Has a Developmental Disability?
Developmental disabilities are a complex group of disorders. Learn about developmental disabilities in children and their outcomes.
Are people with developmental disabilities really seen?
It is common that individuals of all ages and with of all sorts of disabilities are engaged in the larger community and are no longer hidden.
Inheritance: When a Child Has a Developmental Disability
As a child with developmental disabilities grows older, parents begin thinking about how to secure their loved one’s financial future as the care they need can be expensive. While government …
People with developmental disabilities face increased oral health problems
People with developmental disabilities face increased oral health problems because of a host of physical, cognitive and financial challenges, according to a recent study in the Journal of the...
How Inclusion Films is making movies using crew with developmental disabilities
Annemarie Carrigan is your typical millennial. She has dreams and plans. She is self-confident and wants to make a difference in the world.
Employers Learn To Embrace Disability Hiring
Efforts to increase work opportunities for people with developmental disabilities are largely centering on changing attitudes among employers.
10 Tips for Including People With Disabilities in Your Party
With the holiday season upon us, it's easy to hold a party where all guests -- with and without disabilities -- feel welcomed, respected and have fun. Al...
How not to be a jerk to people with disabilities
A British disability advocacy group put together a clever series of ads to help the non-disabled not make utter buffoons of themselves.
Why Parents with Disabilities Are Losing Custody of their Kids
Laws designed to protect people with disabilities are failing to maintain the rights of disabled parents to take care of their children
10 facts on disability
WHO fact file on disability provides 10 facts and images on the health issues.
How Actors With Disabilities Are Educating Casting Directors
Opportunity, understanding and visibility are at the core of the conversation that is changing the dynamic between casting directors and actors with disabilities.
What lenders shouldn’t ask people with disabilities
Borrowers must provide written proof that they are receiving the disability income and disclose how much they’re receiving. But the lenders shouldn't be asking for much beyond that.
How Visual Notes Helped a Student With a Learning Disability Thrive
Visual notetaking can be an important tool for students to synthesize information, create connections, and demonstrate their understanding of difficult concepts, writes arts educator Sherrill Knezel.
Why I Can't Get Legally Married Because of My Disability
"Imagine having to choose between your life and marrying your significant other."
Smart Lifestyle Choices Key to Preventing Disability
There may not be guaranteed methods for preventing disability, but there are smart life choices that dramatically reduce the odds of disability.
How 'Finding Dory' could change the conversation around disabilities
Audiences are seeing her short-term memory loss in a different light.
