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4 Great Blogs You Should Read as a Parent of a Child with Special Needs
Sometimes parents of children with special needs face the challenge of feeling like you're the only one out there. Alone. It’s tough on those days, even if you have friends and family who support you. Unless they have children with disabilities too, it’s
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Parents of Disabled Children: How to Find a Supportive Community
As parents, we know how many responsibilities you have and how your day goes from morning to bedtime with getting the kids to school on time, coordinating their soccer games and singing lessons, trying to get them to eat broccoli for dinner, and making sure
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Finding the Right Care for Your Child with Special Needs
As a parent, there are many times that you are in search of childcare. This includes finding someone who provides reliable, devoted, and quality care for your child. If you have a child with special needs, searching for someone is even more complex: you may
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How to Pay for a Child with Special Needs
The New Year brings many changes, and one of them may be your child’s Individualized Education Program (IEP) meeting. If you have one coming up, you and the rest of the IEP team will sit down together to make sure the IEP meets your child’s needs. The
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Surviving a Divorce with a Special Needs Child
Going through a divorce is tough. What makes it even more difficult is to survive one when you have a special needs child. If you are the custodial parent, you quickly realize that it is all up to you—your child’s health, education and long-term planning
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Overwhelmed by the System? Tips to Make It Easier.
Your child has special needs, and you’re struggling with what that means, how to best help him or her, and how you will be able to handle it all financially. Your emotions are swirling and suddenly you have to decode the foreign language of IHSS and IEPs.
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Tackling the Massive Cost of Care for a Child with Special Needs
If you are a parent of a child with special needs, you may suffer from constantly worrying that you don’t have enough money to provide the best care for your child—or you fear that you will face bankruptcy from all the bills. Diagnoses such as cerebral
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The Hardest Parts of Being a Special Needs Parent
Being a parent is tough. Let’s face it, your life has changed dramatically. But parenting a child with special needs brings additional challenges—ones you weren’t expecting, and others you find are absolutely devastating. Even more disconcerting, are
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