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Parenting Takes A Village When Caring for Multiple Children with Disabilities

Parenting Takes A Village When Caring for Multiple Children with Disabilities

It’s not unusual for families supporting multiple children with disabilities to need to look to the comm... Read More

First Steps to Healthy Habits

First Steps to Healthy Habits

Three tips for encouraging physical fitness and healthy eating in children and teens with autism, inspired by... Read More

Why Are People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Left Out of Clinical Research Trials?

Why Are People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Left Out of Clinical Research Trials?

“Clinical trials should, to the extent possible, enroll a population that is representative of the diver... Read More

Worth the Work

Worth the Work

Two weeks ago, my family, including my aunt and my mother, flew to Florida for our last semi-annual trip to Di... Read More

The Impact of Adoption on Education

The Impact of Adoption on Education

Adoption is a common method of creating or expanding a family. There are many types of adoptions: private, thr... Read More

Engaged & Empowered: Supporting People to Take Charge of their Health

Engaged & Empowered: Supporting People to Take Charge of their Health

The Engaged and Empowered Program is a wellness-based initiative for people with intellectual and developmenta... Read More

Ten Tips for Police, Paramedics and EMTs who Respond to Individuals with Special Needs

Ten Tips for Police, Paramedics and EMTs who Respond to Individuals with Special Needs

Police officers, paramedics and emergency medical technicians (EMTs) are often the first to respond to an emer... Read More

Dentistry and the Elderly

Dentistry and the Elderly

The Baby Boomers, post-World War II Americans born between 1945 and 1964, are one of the nation's largest gene... Read More

Unique, Beautiful and Brave

Unique, Beautiful and Brave

Lily D Moore is an nineteen-year-old actress, model, and advocate for people with disabilities. She was born w... Read More

The Anxious Child: A New Orientation

The Anxious Child: A New Orientation

“When something goes wrong in the neural functions that relate us to gravity, most people attribute the... Read More

Attaining Disability Competent Healthcare

Attaining Disability Competent Healthcare

Have you ever accompanied someone with an intellectual disability to a medical appointment due to a new, conce... Read More

How Do I Ensure My Adult Disabled Child Receives Appropriate Health Care and Government Benefits Upon Reaching the Age of 18?

How Do I Ensure My Adult Disabled Child Receives Appropriate Health Care and Government Benefits Upon Reaching the Age of 18?

Although reaching the age of 18 signifies attaining adulthood for legal purposes, few 18-year-olds are able to... Read More

Why the Impact of COVID-19 on People with IDD is So Devastating

Why the Impact of COVID-19 on People with IDD is So Devastating

Soon after the COVID-19 pandemic established a foothold in the US, evidence quickly pointed to its debilitatin... Read More

50 for 50 Part III: Congratulations and Thank You, EP Magazine Advocate Heroes!

50 for 50 Part III: Congratulations and Thank You, EP Magazine Advocate Heroes!

EP Magazine, formerly called Exceptional Parent, is celebrating its 50th anniversary of providing an award-win... Read More

Clinical Signs of Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Children with Disabilities

Clinical Signs of Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Children with Disabilities

What is sleep-disordered breathing? Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is a term used to describe a broad range... Read More

Lessons from Thalia and Melpomene: Divergent Behavioral Repercussions of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Lessons from Thalia and Melpomene: Divergent Behavioral Repercussions of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Introduction In March 2020, a coronavirus named SARS-CoV-2, now universally referred to as COVID-19, brought... Read More