How To Spot Delays As Quickly As Possible
Each year, nearly 1.5 million children in the U.S. enter kindergarten with learning or health issues that have been missed. I learned this staggering fact when speaking with experts from Easter Seals,...
View ArticleWhat If Children Couldn’t Get the Services They Need?
In watching the coverage last night of the debt ceiling, I bristled at a line in Speaker Boehner’s response to President Obama’s remarks: “If you’re spending more money than you’re taking in, you need...
View ArticleDoes Your State Do Enough For Children Who Need Help?
Today Easter Seals, the nonprofit provider of services for individuals with autism and other disabilities, released a report that outlines how well each state takes care of its youngest children with...
View ArticleIs Autism Being Diagnosed Too Late?
That’s the question you can’t help but ask when you read the latest news from the Centers for Disease Control about the prevalence of autism. The alarming figure so many of us are familiar with–1 in...
View ArticleEasing the Financial Burden for Special-Needs Families
There are a lot of great chronicles of life with a special needs kid (case in point: our blogger, Ellen Seidman, who writes about her awesome son on To the Max). The scenario is definitely familiar to...
View ArticleJoin Parents Magazine for an Autism-Themed Facebook Chat on April 3
On April 3, Parents and Easter Seals will host an autism-themed chat on the Parents Facebook page from 1 to 2 p.m ET. Three experts will be available to answer questions; each expert will have their...
View ArticleWhat to Watch Tonight
Up for a feel-really-good movie? Tonight on HBO, a documentary called “Miss You Can Do It” premieres. It goes behind the scenes of a beauty pageant in Illinois called Miss You Can Do It, which is for...
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