• 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.

•Those with disabilities are more likely than those without disabilities to report having poorer overall health, less access to adequate healthcare and more engagement in risky behaviors such as smoking and physical inactivity. Here is a toolkit to raise awareness about the safety of our disabled population courtesy of Patricia Sarmiento from PublicHealthCorps.org.

• Ramps for wheelchairs are important for a variety of reasons. Whether at home, at an office, or anywhere in between, they can substantially increase the quality of life for someone with a disability

• Guide for individuals with disabilities in buying a home. Learn the important steps in buying a home, home mortgages, and financial assistance programs that are available for individuals living with disabilities.

• Parents are all different when it comes to how they teach their children about acceptance of people with disabilities. Some scold their kids when they ask what’s wrong when a person with a disability passes by, and other parents are totally cool with letting their kids run around and approach them at will. No two parenting techniques are alike. From telling their child to always look away or giving them a generic viewpoint of people with disabilities, mistakes on how to talk to people with disabilities continue. Since even the most well-meaning parent can accidentally make a mistake, here are ways to help your child to think differently about people with disabilities.

• Disability – modest transfers of money and services that the families may use in almost any way they want to keep their babies and children at home – is less expensive than other services.

• Do you need long term disability insurance? Nobody likes to think about what life would look like should disability strike. But the reality is one third of all Americans between the ages 35 and 65 will become disabled for more than 90 days. One in seven workers will be disabled for more than five years. While many people think that disabilities are typically caused by accidents, the majority of long-term absences are actually due to illnesses, such as cancer and heart disease. The loss of income can be so devastating that it forces some people to foreclose on their home or declare bankruptcy.

• Developing childrens motor skills are important when they are very young. Teaching your child these motor skills in the form of a craft or a game allows him or her to learn while also having family fun. Learning these skills will help make them better prepared for when they go off to school and will help them succeed, so play and play often. Developing motor skills doesn’t require doing drills over and over. They can be fun and creative. If the craft or activity is something your child looks forward to doing, they’ll want to keep practicing so they can do better.

• Every day people with a disability benefit from assistive technology. New technological developments have raised the expectation that adults and children with a disability can use assistive technology and augmentative communications devices to function more fully and independently at work, homes, and in the community.

•Adaptive equipment are are devices used to assist with completing activities. The amount of assistance needed varies depending current strength and range of motion, functional abilities, health status, medical diagnosis and precautions.

•Children can have strokes, often caused by birth defects, infections (e.g. meningitis, encephalitis), trauma, and blood disorders such as sickle cell disease. Children who have suffered a stroke may often have problems with speech and communication (aphasia and dysphagia) as well as visual problems such as trouble with visual perception. There are stroke-related disabilities that are unique to children such as cerebral palsy, mental retardation and epilepsy.

•Mobility aids can make life easier for the disabled. If you use a wheelchair or walker, you already know how difficult movement can be without their assistance.

• Disability and mobility concerns don't have to slow down your summer travel plans. Here are some tips to make your disability summer travel easy.

• Employment for people with disabilities - know your disability rights, seek and use the employment services, develop a well-written resume and learn how effective networking can help you find the best job.

•Matter of Panache - The story of a Debra Sanders, a woman who spent nearly twenty-five years championing for the rights of children with disabilities as an educational psychologist in some of our nation’s most challenging schools

• Illness and disability are seen as countering contemporary values such as prosperity, independence, self-reliance, and productivity, so it is not surprising that individuals, their roles, and their relationships struggle to adapt to a life with disability.

•Coping with stress for parents with children with disabilities. Parents of children with disabilities had very elevated scores on the Parenting Stress Index, signifying that they perceived far more stress in their role than did parents of children without disabilities.

•Support groups are made up of people with common interests and experiences. People who have been through, or are going through, a similar circumstance can do more than sympathize with you — they can relate to what you are going through and keep you from feeling like you are alone.

•Sign language is primarily used in communication with people who have hearing impairments, but it has also been used to teach people with disabilities who have little or no communication skills, as well as preverbal infants.

• The Internet offers places for people with disabilities to meet, whether you are looking for support, friendship, dating or marriage, these special places enable the creation of all types of relationships.

•Accessible home design and modifications. Accidents happen and you could find yourself using a wheelchair or walker. As we mature and grow older, getting around our home becomes more difficult.Your home can become more accessible with home modifications.

•The evolution of disability rights is a complex story of shifts in consciousness, shifts in political policy, and of changing views on disabilities.

•Adapted sports offers the opportunity to achieve success in a very short time period; to use this success to build self-confidence and focus on possibilities instead of dwelling on what can no longer be done.

•Our website offers a support community for families, parents, caregivers and professionals who have or work with people with disabilities or special needs to meet online, including a newsletter and e-Group forum.

•Range of motion exercises reduce stiffness and help keep your joints flexible. the "range-of-motion" is the normal amount your joints can be moved in certain directions.

•Adult day care programs provide daytime care and recreational activities for adults with disabilities who cannot be left alone or who have difficulty with self care.

• Even though the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed years ago, many wheelchair-users going on a family vacation still have trouble with accessibility.