Why is emergency preparedness for individuals with hearing loss important? From a natural disaster to unexpected emergencies in the home, the need to plan, practice, and store away information and materials specific for someone with hearing loss is important. During an emergency, planning for the communication needs of someone with a hearing loss might help… Read more Emergency Preparedness for Individuals with Hearing Loss: A Family Guide
Category: Quality of Life
Helping People With Intellectual Disabilities Cope With Loss
Individuals with intellectual disabilities experience grief when they lose a loved one just like everyone else. Common misconceptions People with intellectual disabilities don’t understand or can’t comprehend death. People with intellectual disabilities don’t show grief, therefore experience no grief. Talking about it would be too upsetting for him/her. We now understand People with intellectual disabilities… Read more Helping People With Intellectual Disabilities Cope With Loss
Children’s Mental Health
Children’s mental health is the overall wellness of children’s thinking, mood, and feeling. It affects children’s ability to relate to others and complete daily tasks. Some common children’s mental health problems include depression, anxiety, and behavior disorders. Mental health problems are often harder to spot than physical health problems. Paying close attention to your child’s… Read more Children’s Mental Health
Supporting a Healthy Brain
The human brain is the command center for the human nervous system. It weighs about 3 pounds and comprises 60 percent of fat, making it one of the fattiest organs in the body. A brain’s gray matter is made up of about 100 billion neurons that gather and transmit signals, while white matter is made… Read more Supporting a Healthy Brain
Adult Siblings of Individuals with Disabilities
Sibling relationships are often the longest-lasting relationships that children form. Like all siblings, they may or may not develop close emotional relationships depending on individual differences and circumstances. Regardless, a child’s reaction to a sibling with a disability will have a lasting effect on siblings’ self-esteem and emotional development. General Well-Being of Siblings According to… Read more Adult Siblings of Individuals with Disabilities
Adolescent & Young Adult Siblings of Individuals with Disabilities
Growing up with a sibling with a disability Sibling relationships often are the longest-lasting relationships that children form. Relationships vary greatly, based on the ages, gender and age span of the children, their shared interests and their family’s lifestyle. Variations in closeness, time spent together, and warmth in sibling relationships are expected in families where… Read more Adolescent & Young Adult Siblings of Individuals with Disabilities
Service Animal Etiquette
A service animal is defined as an animal that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability. The animal must be trained through a specialty organization, professional trainer, or by the owner to perform a specific task relating to the owner’s disability. Training a service… Read more Service Animal Etiquette
Artists with Disabilities: Exhibiting in a Gallery
An artist with a disability is like any other artist. A creative urge from within encourages the need to communicate through a work of art. Although the process itself is quite satisfying, the artist needs to share the work and allow it to touch the lives of others. Sharing artwork professionally may seem difficult, but… Read more Artists with Disabilities: Exhibiting in a Gallery