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• ADD/ADHD - Tips, advice and strategies that work from ADD/ADHD experts.
• Adult Challenges - The articles in this section are for parents advocating on behalf of adult children with special needs. Adulthood brings with it some unique challenges and issues. Hopefully these tips will help you negotiate them safely and successfully.
• Advocacy Strategies - If you need to learn the basics of parent advocacy, these articles can help. The articles take you through all the information you need to know and help you make dramatic leaps in your advocacy know-how.
• Advocates Making a Difference - Stories from parents who have made accomplished advocacy and inclusion goals and want to reach back and share with others.
• Autism/Aspergers - Tips, advice, and strategies that work from experts on autism spectrum disorders.
• Cognitive Impairments/Developmental Delays - These articles offers tips and ideas to parents raising children with significant cognitive issues.
• Emotional Disorders - Tips, ideas, and resources for parents of children with mental health issues and emotional disorders.
• Financial Issues - This category includes a series of articles by Michael Frantz. Mike is a financial planner in Michigan and the parent of an 11 year old who has Down Syndrome. Mike offers sound advice on current financial issues as well as those involved in planning for your child's financial future.
• Food for Thought - Articles written by productivity and life coaches that offer motivation and practicality.
• Hearing Impairments - Tips, advice and strategies from experts related to hearing impairments and cochlear implants.
• Homework - Strategies to help you and your child get through homework challenges.
• How To Action Plans - Step-by-step action plans to help you conquer common advocacy and inclusion challenges. You know in your heart what needs to happen, these plans will show you how to get from where you are to where you need to be.
• Inclusion - These articles are designed to help eliminate inclusion trial and error and offer practical tips for successful inclusion of a student with special needs. For diagnosis specific inclusion advice, see that article category.
• Learning Disabilities - Tips, ideas, and resources for parents raising children with learning disabilities.
• Multiple Disabilities - Tips, checklists, and ideas for raising a child with multiple challenges.
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• Orthopedic impairments - Tips, ideas, and resources to assist parents raising a child with orthopedic challenges.
• Otherwise Health Impaired - The articles in this section offers tips and ideas to parents raising children with significant health issues such as diabetes and asthma that may qualify them for special services.
• Parent to Parent - Gain hope, inspiration, and ideas by listening in as other parents share their struggles, solutions, and personal insights -- from one parent to another.
• Sensory Processing Disorders - Tips, ideas, and resources for parents raising a child with sensory processing issues.
• Speech or language impairment - Tips, ideas, and resources to assist parents raising children with speech or language impairments.
• Tourette Syndrome - Tips, ideas, and resources to assist parents raising a child with Tourette Syndrome.
• Traumatic Brain Injury - Tips, ideas, and resources for parents raising children who have experienced a traumatic brain injury.
• Visual Impairments - Tips, ideas, and resources for parents raising chidlren with visual impairments.

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