Posts filed under: parenting

May 11, 2011
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.
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Filed Under: parenting, visually impaired

April 5, 2011
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.
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Filed Under: healthcare, long-term care, parenting, physical accessibility, physical disability, profile, service animal

Oct. 9, 2010
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.
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Filed Under: parenting, physical disability, recreation

Oct. 8, 2010
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.
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Filed Under: long-term care, parenting

June 26, 2010
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.
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Filed Under: children, parenting, public policy

March 3, 2010
The Daily Beast
The Overmedicated Myth
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?
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Filed Under: children, healthcare, parenting

Dec. 27, 2009
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.
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Filed Under: children, education, K-12, military, parenting, veteran

Dec. 26, 2009
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.
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Filed Under: autism spectrum, children, developmental disability, long-term care, parenting

Dec. 23, 2009
ABC News
Quadriplegic Mother Fights for Custody of Son
A quadriplegic mother is fighting her ex-boyfriend in court to retain custody of their son. The ex-boyfriend claims she cannot be a competent mother because of her disability. It is a case that touches on important questions about the rights of the disabled.
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