My Child's Development
My Child's Development
Practical tips and information on ways to maximize the main areas of development for children.
Health & Day Care
Health & Daily Care
From mealtimes to vaccines and everything in between, this information will help you establish routines for the day to day needs of your child.
My Community
My Community
Connect to a network of parents and professionals and develop your own support network of peers and advisors.
Establishing Services
Establishing Services
Don't know where to start? Overwhelmed by all the acronyms? Learn how to navigate the system of care and tips on preparing for IEPs.
Meet Our Experts
Meet Our Experts
Our panel of experts combine medical and therapeutic perspectives with years of experience working passionately alongside famiiles and children with special needs.
Tools & Resources
Tools & Resources
A library of resources, reference links and easy to print guidelines for you to post on the fridge and share with others!
Love, Laugh & Live
Love, Laugh, & Live
This section is devoted to our amazing moms. It's ok, in fact we encourage you to laugh and develop goals for YOURSELF! Share your secrets of sanity and be encouraged to take time for you!
Growth and Nutrition Articles
Chefs from Stanford University’s Dining Department share
tips to help young adults with disabilities and their families kick-off healthy
eating habits
Finding Balance: Obesity and Children with Special Needs is
a landmark report highlighting the epidemic of obesity in the special needs
community and outlining innovative solutions for families, caregivers and
professionals. The report is the first to focus exclusively on how the obesity
epidemic affects children with special needs while providing innovative
solutions.
Four parents give first hand perspectives about the
challenges and lessons learned of trying to achieve a healthy weight for their
children.
Research has demonstrated conclusively that both adults and
children with disabilities are significantly more likely than their peers to be
overweight or obese.
Obesity adds an additional layer of difficulty for special
needs children,impacting their day-to-day lives as well as their long-term
health.
Children with disabilities face the same obesity risks as
other children as well as risk factors that are particular to their disability.
In this report, Abilitypath.org has identified seven unique obesity risk factors
faced by children with disabilities.
The impact of disabilities such as Down syndrome, autism,
and cerebral palsy on obesity are discussed.
A child’s weight is impacted by a variety of factors- some
close to home and others influenced by public policies made hundreds or
thousands of miles away. Just as each sphere of influence can be part of the
problem; it can also be part of the solution.
Three programs that provide supportive communities that
encourage health and fitness for special needs children and families are
highlighted.
Here are a variety of resources for parents and
professionals to encourage healthy habits including positive eating and fitness.
Gabrielle Stephens is a worried mom. “It seems as
though everyday there is a product or food that is recalled and I worry about
the dangers to my child,” says Stephens
New study released reporting that children with autism
with picky diets still have the same average intake of calories and major
nutrients as their peers'
A new study links a common produce pesticide to the
country's ADHD epidemic in children
Childhood Peanut Allergies Have More Than Tripled
Ten healthy kid friendly foods with tips on how to get
your child to eat them
A child’s growth is influenced by many factors, including
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