A Child With Needs

When presented with multiple disabilities, it can seem a rough road to living a full and fulfilling life. We have many to thank who have forged the road in front of us for making a difference in how to better service everyone. As individual’s with multiple disabilities or as the loved ones of those with [...]

Autism can be challenging anywhere, but sometime autism in the workplace is a key to success. Individual’s with Autism have a unique set of traits that help lead to success in certain work environments. Sometimes they have to steer their own way to success because the typical career path that starts with college can be [...]

Autism is not always simply something that negatively effects an individual it can also be an attribute toward success. While those with Autism think and respond to their environment differently, their skill set can also help them to be more successful at certain tasks. I recently read an article from NYTimes, The Autism Advantage. It [...]

Autism research has come a long way, but not all of the research seems to be widely known. I recently read this great article on Immune Disorders and Autism. It states these little known facts that research has found: Autism can be linked to pregnancy In 1/3 of cases, it is linked to Immune Dysregulation [...]

It has been 22 years since the Americans with Disabilities Act, ADA, has been put in place. On July 26, 1990, President George H. W. Bush when he signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law. Although there is still a long way to go, this was great progress toward helping each individual receive [...]

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Can Autism and Technology Work Together to Help Solve on Upward Epidemic It seems like technology is everywhere so why not for those who need it most. While the iPad is getting more readily assessable even to infants (yes I saw the Fischer-price case), why not for those with other challenges. There is a site [...]

Adaptive behavior means that the behavior or “anything that an organism does involving action and response to stimulation” (Merriam-Webster, 2006) is adaptive or “modification of an organism or its parts that makes it more fit for existence under the conditions of its environment” (Merriam-Webster, 2006). In other words…Adaptive behavior is the ability to adjust to [...]

Definition: Both physical and health impairments are considered disabilities when they interfere with education and other daily living. Physical impairments include those caused by congenital abnormality impairments caused by disease and impairments from other causes. Health impairments include disease and/or chronic illness. Causes: With so many different conditions under the category of Physical and health [...]

Yesterday was International Down Syndrome Day. Although this is a day late, there is no difference in the importance of celebrating those different from us. It is each of our uniqueness’s that make the whole more interesting. As the video states, different is not less and there is so much to learn from one another. [...]