The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel details how a company might be falsely “selling hope” in a brain-balancing program, which claims to treat children with learning disabilities. Read more
parenting
Red Orbit
Premature Baby Boys At Higher Risk Of Disability Than Girls
Boys born prematurely are more likely to be at risk of disability than girls, according to new reports from the “Pediatric Research” journal. The research papers, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, concluded that baby boys have a higher likelihood of infections, jaundice, birth complications and congenital conditions in general but the biggest risk was preterm birth. The findings were published to coincide with the third annual World Prematurity Day on Sunday, Nov. 17. Read more.
Chicago Tribune
Blind couple step out as parents
Love is blind inside the two-story brick house on Mulligan Avenue. And that is why the microwave buttons are marked with Braille. The clocks in the home all announce the time. And at 7:15 a.m., everyone is listening carefully for the school bus.
WBUR-FM (Boston)
Rescue Monkey Becomes Helping Hand After Man’s Accident
Six years ago, Ned Rogers was a 22-year-old college student in Arizona when he was in a catastrophic car accident that left him a quadriplegic and severely brain damaged.
The Kansas City (Mo.) Star
Club drops rule limiting coach in wheelchair
It didn’t take high-dollar lawyers — though they offered — to resolve a dispute between a youth football club and a coach with a disability.
NPR
Finding Support For Children With Disabilities
Parents of children with severe disabilities have many challenges and concerns. One big worry is who will care for their children after the parents are gone.
UPI
Parents of disabled lack support
U.S. researchers are calling for more environmental and social supports to help families caring for children with physical and mental challenges.
The Daily Beast
Aren’t all kids on some kind of medication? Isn’t everyone diagnosed with something these days? Isn’t ADD as common as the sniffles?
The Washington Post
Military helps families find care for special-needs kids
When her husband, a Marine Corps colonel, was transferred last summer from the Pentagon to a base in southern California, Karen Driscoll was forced to confront her autistic child’s new school district and the intricacies of federal special education law.
The Washington Post
Md. women raising disabled brothers now each other’s anchors
On a summer day last year, Padma Soundararajan lost most of her family in a head-on collision in India. In an instant, her parents and two teenage sisters were gone.