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  • Colorado is paying parents to take care of children with disabilities, a pandemic benefit that's sticking around

    October 17, 2023 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    During the pandemic, caregivers stopped entering people’s homes, so Medicaid restructured to pay parents to provide care for their children with disabilities rather than hired help. About 1,200 families across the state signed up for the program, making $15 an hour for up to 10 hours a week teaching those with disabilities “homemaker” tasks like cooking and cleaning.

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  • In This Arizona City, Kids With Autism Are More Than Welcome

    August 07, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Mesa, Arizona

    The International Board of Credentialing and Continuing Education Standards trains employees in the tourism industry to become autism certified, ensuring they know how to care for neurodivergent youth and their families when they’re at places like restaurants or theme parks. Several of these businesses have practices in place like offering noise-canceling headphones, access to quiet rooms or even hosting autism awareness weekends, helping to make the city the first Autism Certified City in the world.

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  • When cerebral palsy is not a death sentence

    June 26, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Umuahia, Abia

    The Straight Child Foundation works to increase the quality of care provided to children with cerebral palsy and their families. The Foundation has provided physiotherapy and speech therapy to about 35 children with CP and has provided 20 wheelchairs specifically designed for those with CP. The Foundation also hosts yearly camps where CP patients can connect and interact with healthcare workers and other people with CP.

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  • He wouldn't cure only his son, so he got franchise for kids with brain disorder

    March 31, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Port Harcourt, Rivers State

    The Dyslexia Foundation Nigeria aims to create awareness about dyslexia and ADHD through radio and TV talk shows, spreading information to encourage parents to seek out testing and training for their children with dyslexia. The Foundation also offers more affordable testing and brain training for children with dyslexia that helps to improve their learning ability over time.

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  • Creating an inclusive fitness community through adaptive training

    March 27, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Santa Ana, California

    Santa Ana College is developing a program that provides opportunities for the physical and social growth of adaptive students. The program trains student aides on how to help those with disabilities and also provides a class for students with disabilities to train with adaptive equipment. On top of improving equal access, the program also strives to provide opportunities for networking between students and aides. Within two years, the program has grown from a four-person class to a full class of 25 students.

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  • Families take drastic steps to help children in mental health crises

    March 20, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States

    To eliminate the practice of custody relinquishment to mental health services, some states are building more comprehensive systems of care for children that focus on crisis prevention and de-escalation. More accessible and affordable wraparound services have reduced the need for and use of inpatient psychiatric hospitalizations, emergency rooms, juvenile detention, residential treatments, and police involvement.

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  • Telehealth offers boost to children with developmental needs

    December 19, 2022 |

    ICT News |

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    Response Location: Navajo Nation, United States, Anchorage, Alaska

    The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium provides telehealth services to more than 100,000 Alaska Natives, primarily in small communities with limited access to travel. The organization, along with others like the Indian Health Service, also provide remote care to families with children with developmental needs, like those with autism.

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  • Mapping Lead Contamination in the Granite State

    December 13, 2021 |

    Granite State News Collaborative |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    Through education, public policy and grant programs, New Hampshire is working on decreasing the number of children with elevated blood lead levels. In 2016, the state wanted to improve lead-testing rates and over the year, they conducted 25 training sessions reaching more than 300 medical professionals, which led to 2,100 more children being tested than the previous year. Interest in lead-abatement grant programs by landlords and homeowners has also increased.

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  • Expanded Silver Alert system helps those with developmental disabilities

    August 05, 2021 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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    Response Location: United States, Arizona

    Three years after Arizona added people with intellectual or developmental disabilities to the list of people who can trigger a public alert when they go missing, advocates say the state enjoys better coordination from one community to the next. While the numbers aren't tracked, advocates say many people on the autism spectrum or with other disabilities have been quickly found and returned to safety. The state expanded its Silver Alert program, originally for missing seniors, and other states are starting to follow suit. An alert can result in notifications by phone, news and social media, and highway signs.

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  • Bus Stop Shakespeare

    October 26, 2020 |

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    Response Location: Poland, Gdansk

    A program at the Gdansk Shakespeare Theater in Poland is creating job opportunities for people with Down syndrome after partnering with the city and a local foundation that supports job training and coaching for special-needs individuals. The project has not just benefited the participants – patrons of the company as well as other businesses are realizing "that people with Down syndrome who have the appropriate skills can prove themselves at work."

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