by Ashley Kus | Jan 22, 2025 | Media Room, Uncategorized
By Abby’s Family “Your one best day is Abby’s every day.” That’s often what we tell people about Abby. Abby is the ray of sunshine on a cloudy day and never without a smile or laugh. She knows only joy and happiness, a welcome blessing for all who know her. Abby...
by Ashley Kus | Jan 15, 2025 | Media Room, Uncategorized
By Ashley Kus Communications Coordinator After a day of training at the new INspire Cafe in Wakefield, Massachusetts, Janis Mamayek’s son Whitman was all smiles. “He was beaming ear to ear,” Janis said. “The joy was just abundant.”...
by Ashley Kus | Jan 14, 2025 | Media Room, Uncategorized
by Michelle Diament DisabilityScoop.com The nation’s largest retailer is piloting a new program aimed at enabling people with disabilities to shop more independently. Walmart is providing free access to visual interpreters at its stores and on its website. The...
by Ashley Kus | Jan 14, 2025 | Media Room, Uncategorized
By CdLS Foundation Clinical Advisory Board (CAB) *Can certain diets improve behavioral issues? My son’s neurochiropractor suggests the use of diet (i.e. eliminate wheat and dairy) to assist in neurological development (including improvements in behavior). Most...
by Ashley Kus | Jan 14, 2025 | Media Room, Uncategorized
By Erica Patino Expert reviewed by Elizabeth Harstad, MD, MPH understood.org *Behavior assessments are different from tests that screen for learning differences. They don’t have right or wrong answers. Instead, they look at how kids interact with their world. These...
by Ashley Kus | Jan 14, 2025 | Media Room, Uncategorized
By Child Mind Institute understood.org *When children have emotional or behavioral problems, the earlier they get treatment, the easier it is to help them. But as parents, you also want to avoid unnecessary treatment and costs in both time and money. There are times...
by Ashley Kus | Jan 6, 2025 | Media Room, Uncategorized
Posted By Michele Gianetti parentingspecialneeds.org Happy New Year! And that means it’s resolution time, is it not? Go to any home shopping channel on the new year and you will see it for yourself. Treadmills, healthy home delivery food services, exercise mats…. the...
by Ashley Kus | Jan 6, 2025 | Media Room, Uncategorized
By Laura Tagliareni, PhD understood.org Many siblings have times when they don’t get along. They may argue, tease, and call each other names. It happens in families with or without a child with learning and thinking differences like dyslexia and ADHD. But when a child...
by Ashley Kus | Jan 6, 2025 | Media Room, Uncategorized
By Disability Scoop, Shaun Heasle Federal officials are finalizing a rule that they say will yield the largest expansion of rights for airline passengers with disabilities in a generation. Under the regulation published last month, the U.S. Department of...
by Ashley Kus | Dec 20, 2024 | Media Room, Uncategorized
by Shauna Muckle, Tampa Bay Times/TNS disabilityscoop.com Mary Benhart’s family gushed about Disney World’s willingness to accommodate people with disabilities in an ad for the company last year. “You can actually relax as a special-needs family,” Benhart said,...
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