I wanted to add that, if you have a young adult child with Down syndrome, be sure to check out Gigi’s Playhouse Career Development Programs! These are free of charge and you will find them in different parts of the US. They offer a 10-week Preparatory course, and then continued with...
Additionally, our data revealed participants in the pre-employment program talking or writing about family members, siblings, and relationships they have with other people with disabilities from the programs they attend during the day. However, there was rarely mention of non-familial friends or frien...
She transforms a generalized situation of economic and cultural destitution into a series of deadlocked situations: inability to ask for a spot in day care, inability to pay for the bus and medical care, inability to ask for free access to them. Each serves as a support for the diagnosis ...
A noble and brave young man who saves the day, we see him as a old man in a wheelchair towards the end of TFoB. Colonel Hugh Eddison: From “The Unicorn and the Wasp”. He reveals himself to have been faking needing a wheelchair for many years in order to keep his wife at his ...
The way the parents show concern is another key variable, and this holds true even in families where the kids aren’t disabled at all. For example, thinking back to life as a young married adult, I recall most of our friends had kids before we did. When we hosted parties, they showed...
However, many service recipients experience a gap between these ideals and everyday realities. In this article I investigate how this gap affects minority families of disabled children who do not master the majority language and healthcare workers. The data I use in my investigation draw on a ...
Daily life can still sometimes be challenging for Evan and his parents and sister — any family with a disabled child knows that every day can bring a new wrinkle. Diagnoses shift, new treatments become available, laws change, a parent might lose their job or get sick themselves. “The pict...
Few of the studies focusing on family caregiving have dealt with families caring for a young adult member with a serious and persistent mental illness. This qualitative study expands our understanding of the caregiving processes in these... MM Doornbos - 《Journal of Family Nursing》 被引量: 36...
Sóley, who spent part of her day in compulsory school in special education, experienced a different kind of power relations with her peers where she was left out and did not have many friends her age: I think everybody knew that I had no true friend and was a lot alone, everybody ...
The policy has a 30-day elimination period and also Obviously, the US government loses a lot of money with premium tax credits for healthcare plans. How does the government budget for this, higher taxes? Do these make programs like Medicaid or Medicare Social Secur...