Child Disability Information

This section of Disabled World covers a range of specific childhood disabilities and disorders including information about disability in infants, toddlers, children, and youths. We also provide links to disability specific sites and support groups for both children and parents of children, or a child, with a disability.

The Disabled World mission in Child Disability is to:

* Provide families of children with a disability information concerning their rights and entitlements to services and support.

* Advocate on behalf of children with a disability and families to ensure the best possible support and services are available from the community and World Governments.

* Educate public policy-makers and the general community about needs of children with a disability.

* Provide information and resources to schools and the education sector in regards to Childhood Disability and a child's unique issues.

Parents are often worried when their child experiences learning problems in school. There are many different reasons for learning difficulties, but a common one may involve a specific learning disability. Learning disabilities affect at least 1 in 10 school children today.

Evaluation is an essential beginning step in the special education process for a child with a disability. In the United States the evaluation process is guided by requirements in special education law, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

IDEA's Definition of a "Child with a Disability"

IDEA lists different disability categories under which a child may be found eligible for special education and related services. These categories are:

* Autism
* Deafness
* Deaf-blindness
* Mental retardation
* Multiple disabilities
* Hearing impairment
* Developmental delay
* Traumatic brain injury
* Emotional disturbance
* Orthopedic impairment
* Other health impairment
* Specific learning disability
* Speech or language impairment
* Visual impairment, including blindness.

Parents with a child, or children, with a disability often have more stress placed on their relationship than parents of typically developing children. However, it has also been shown that having a child with a disability can also bring a couple closer together. The main key(s) to keeping your marriage or relationship strong are open communication and spending a great deal of time together.

Further information - Disability Education - Special Education - Childrens Health Concerns

Further Information Regarding Child Disability Information

The PACER Center - A Parent Training and Information Center
The PACER Center is a parent information and training center for families of children and young people with disabilities whose young ones are between the ages of birth and twenty-one years of age. The center is located in Minneapolis and serves people from across America to include families in Minnesota.

Kids Together - Working for Children with Disabilities
Kids Together believes that building community is supporting people in making and sustaining connection with other in their communities. They believe this is not only a disability issue. Building communities involves connecting with each other and teaching humanity. A community is comprised of people who are interdependent upon each other.

KEEN Los Angeles - Kids with Disabilities - Recreation and FUN
The need for a program such as the one KEEN represents today was recognized by a group of community members who cared deeply enough about the quality of life of children with disabilities that they pursued the creation of KEEN.

Children and Speech or Language Impairments
A speech or language impairment means an impairment of speech or sound production, fluency, voice or language which significantly affects a child's educational performance or their social, emotional or vocational development.

The National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness - Resource for Children and Youth
The National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness (NCDB) is a national technical assistance and dissemination center for children and youth who are deaf-blind. The NCDB is funded by the United States Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP).

Children and Orthopedic Impairments
The definition of an, "Orthopedic Impairment," is one that includes impairments caused by congenital anomalies such as absence of a member, clubfoot, impairments caused by disease such as bone tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, or impairments for other causes to include amputations, fractures, cerebral palsy, burns, or fractures.

Children and Hearing Loss - Facts and Information
About half of all children with a hearing loss do not have an identified cause for that hearing loss. Because of this, a number of states in America have instituted universal hearing screening requiring all babies to have their hearing screened before they leave the hospital.

Children with Disabilities and H1N1 Flu
The H1N1 flu has been on the minds of all people in America; as of August eighth, the majority of the children who have died because of this form of the flu have had an underlying illness or developmental disability, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Bullying Prevention Skills and Techniques for Children
Child bullying is a big problem in our schools today. The main difference between child bullying today from the past is the nature of the bullying and the violence that occurs in the aftermath. Cyberbullying is becoming a popular and more destructive form of bullying than traditional bullying.

Action For Kids - An Organization for Children and Young People with Disabilities
Action for Kids achieves their goals through providing mobility equipment to help independent movement, work-related learning to assist with access to employment, furthering education, and alternate career opportunities. They also provide family support services to disseminate information, support and advocacy.

Stories for Children Magazine
The staff at Stories for Children Magazine takes their mission quite seriously and strives to provide quality stories and articles so their readers will never want for good material, in any form. Take the time out today and jump into the World of Ink and find out what all the excitement is about.

Our-Kids - A Website Supporting Parents, Family, and Caregivers
The Our-Kids web site supports parents, family members, caregivers and others who are working with children with physical and mental disabilities and delays. The site supports the Our-Kids email list, which consists of over seven-hundred people who represent children that experience varying diagnosis that range from indefinite developmental delays and sensory integration issues to cerebral palsy and rare genetic disorders.

Are Kids Today Truly More Autonomous?
Children have certainly mastered the art of selecting, negotiating and even refusing the chores their parents assign to them. This growth in personal autonomy at home over the last few decades could be the result of shrinking opportunities to participate in activities outside the home, without Mom and Dad looking over their shoulder.

Easter Seals Offers Free Disability Awareness Curriculum for Educators
Elementary school educators now have a free teaching tool to help their young students learn about children and adults with disabilities. There is still a critical need to build awareness and change attitudes about what it means to be a person with a disability -- the best time to learn is as a young child.

The Pathways Awareness Foundation
The Pathways Awareness Foundation is a national nonprofit organization that works to raise awareness concerning early detection and the benefits of early therapy for infants and children with motor delays. Their activities are based upon the expertise of the Pathways Medical Round Table, comprised of leading doctors, clinicians, nurse practitioners, and advisers.

The NCLD and LD.org - A Website for Children and Families with Learning Disabilities
The National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) works to ensure that America's fifteen million children, teenagers, and adults who experience learning disabilities have opportunities to succeed in school, work, and life. Their stated goal is to empower children with, "The Power to Hope, to Learn, and to Succeed." The NCLD gives parents, professionals, and individuals with learning disabilities an incredible amount of information, all while promoting research and programs which foster effective learning.

Explaining Disability to Children
Parents face a couple of situations where disabilities and children are concerned; one involves questions from their children regarding other people who experience disability, the other situation involves the experience of disability either on the part of the parent, or on the part of the child.