When parents learn their child has special needs, they begin a journey filled with strong emotion, difficult choices, and an ongoing need for information and support. Parents may feel isolated and alone, not knowing where to begin. This website offers free support resources for families with special needs – take a tour or search on a specific topic.
This website offers free support resources for families with special needs – take a
tour or
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This website is dedicated to Monica who was born with multiple disabilities: cortical blindness, seizure disorders and microcephaly due to an occipital encephalocele and Chiari malformation. She also has a genetic kidney disease called PKD, and hand and arm deformities from Amniotic Band Syndrome.
Despite numerous developmental disabilities (due to the neural tube defect causing prenatal loss of brain matter) Monica is a delightful, motivated and affectionate young lady who continues to learn new skills and novel ways to enjoy life. She is an inspiration to all that know her.
A sampling of recent articles:
- Today’s parents worry about a great many things, money being one of the most common concerns. That’s why putting sound financial and legal plans in place early is the best way to create a solid financial foundation. Financial planning challenges for parents of special needs children are many and complex, and retirement planning presents one of the toughest challenges. The core challenge is balancing the financial needs of retirement with long-term needs of a child with a disability.
- Social Security disability benefits, which are often available to children with special needs, can provide ongoing monetary support. Benefits can help ease financial worries and provide the targeted care your child needs.
- Teaching self care skills is a process that begins at birth and goes on into adulthood. Children with disabilities may find these skills difficult to perform, but they will need to acquire these skills as best they can to live as independently as possible.
- For too long, people with disabilities had been told that having families of their own was not an option. The truth is that there have always been parents with disabilities, and our society evolves, more couples now have access to parenthood.
- Making music creates a special needs child’s life experience. Studies on the benefits of music show dramatic lifelong improvements in language, math, coordination, memory and motor skills, and therapy can be an effective tool.
- Arts and crafts are important to the development of all children, but particularly valuable to children with disabilities.
- As with any child, it’s important to make your home as safe and secure as possible for your special needs child. Ramps for wheelchairs are important for a variety of reasons.
- Family fun and games bring not only enjoyment but health benefits. Taking time for things that make you laugh can help you feel better about yourself.
- Pregnancy books tend to gloss over the special needs pregnancy, and prenatal diagnosis may ignore the possibility that you might give birth to a baby with special needs.
- The population is aging and creating a higher demand for home care. Spending quality time with senior relatives can sometimes be a challenge. These fun activities help everyone bond.
- CoreSG