Download or read book Special Needs Planning A Guide for Families in New York with a Loved One with a Disability written by George Gray and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a resource to a care giver of a loved one with a disability to provide planning and advice on providing a fulfilling life for the loved one.
Download or read book The Complete Guide to Creating a Special Needs Life Plan written by Hal Wright and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2013-07-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of special needs planning is to create the best possible life for an adult with a disability. This book provides comprehensive guidance on creating a life plan to transition a special needs child to independence or to ensure they are well cared for in the future. Beginning with a vision of a meaningful life for the child, Hal Wright explains how to form a practical plan to reach these goals, how to mentor personal empowerment and task skills, and how to create circles of support to sustain a life plan. He next looks at employment and residential options, and government programs available in the United States. Finally he talks the reader through important financial and legal considerations, including how to fund and manage a special needs trust. This book will be essential reading for all parents or guardians of a child with a cognitive, mental or physical impairment. It will also be of interest to attorneys, financial planners, insurance agents, trust officers and other professionals looking to better serve the special needs community.
Download or read book The Special Needs Planning Guide written by Cynthia Haddad and published by Brookes Publishing Company. This book was released on 2022 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can families of children with disabilities plan for lasting financial security at every stage of life? Find clear answers in The Special Needs Planning Guide, a step-by-step companion for parents as they progress through the complexities of planning for the future of their family and their child. Written by two financial planning experts who are also a parent and a sibling of a person with disabilities, this bestselling how-to guide is now in its second edition. Revised, reorganized, and carefully updated to reflect current law, this book gives families the real-world advice, strategies, and actions needed to plan for both their future and the well-being and security of their child. With clarity and compassion, the authors guide families in addressing five critical factors involved in special needs planning-- family and support, emotional, financial, legal, and government benefits factors--at every stage of their child's life, from birth through adulthood. Throughout the book, readers will learn from the stories and advice of other caregivers, get helpful planning pointers and key questions to answer, and take action with the chapter lists of Next Steps. To help families customize the information in this book for their specific needs, this new edition also offers a complete package of online resources, including a fillable Special Needs Planning Timeline, easy-to-use financial planning worksheets, and an in-depth Letter of Intent template families can use to map out their vision for their child's life. Informed by decades of personal and professional experience, this reader-friendly guidebook will help families educate themselves about financial planning, create a complete action plan for their future, and provide the knowledge and the tools they need to work toward a secure and full life for their child. WHAT'S NEW: Fully revised chapters and online resources A 10-step process that breaks complex planning into manageable tasks Letter of Intent now available as a fillable PDF Excel worksheets for easy planning New chapters on Foundational Financial Strategies and Tools, and Advanced Strategies and Special Circumstances Helpful information on ABLE accounts, housing options, and military Survivor Benefit Plans New planning tips, pointers, and case stories Guidance on creating a Team to Carry On beyond the parents' lifetimes SELECTED TOPICS COVERED: special needs trusts funding - trustee selection - insurance strategies - investment guidance - estate planning - legal settlements - government benefits, such as SSI, SSDI, and housing benefits - goal-setting - advocacy - hiring financial and legal professionals - sibling considerations - contributions of extended support networks - retirement plans - guardianship and less restrictive alternatives
Download or read book Life Planning for Adults with Developmental Disabilities written by Judith Greenbaum and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Comprehensive Guide for Parents and Caregivers As any parent or caregiver of an individual with developmental disabilities can tell you, planning for the future of an adult with intellectual disabilities, Cerebral Palsy, severe autism, or another such condition requires hard work and good advice. While complete independence and self-reliance is out of reach for many adults with developmental disabilities, a productive, stable, and enjoyable life is certainly possible. But government and private support for parents and disabled individuals is scattered and difficult to negotiate. This book is a comprehensive guide to resources you can use to help an adult child or other individual with developmental disabilities for whom you care. The book begins by assessing the quality of life of the adult with a disability. It offers a wealth of suggestions for making that person's life even better. The book then focuses on long-term planning for the individual with a disability and helps answer the question, Who will take care of my child after I'm gone? Learn effective ways to: Assess a disabled individual's strengths and need for support services Develop a plan to for building a busy and productive life Locate good housing and employment opportunities Gather a supportive team of caregivers Advocate for a disabled individual with community agencies
Download or read book Everything No One Tells You About Parenting a Disabled Child written by Kelley Coleman and published by Hachette Go. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The honest, relatable, actionable roadmap to the practicalities of parenting a disabled child, featuring personal stories, expert interviews, and the foundational information parents need to know about topics including diagnosis, school, doctors, insurance, financial planning, disability rights, and what life looks like as a parent caregiver. For parents of disabled children, navigating the systems, services, and supports is a daunting, and often overwhelming, task. No one explains to parents how to figure out the complex medical, educational, and social service systems essential to their child’s success. Over and over, parents are being asked to reinvent the exact same wheels. According to the CDC, “Every 4 ½ minutes a baby is born with a birth defect in the United States.” That’s 1 in 33. There’s no handbook for how to do this. Until now. Presented with empathy and humor, Everything No One Tells You About Parenting a Disabled Child: Your Guide to the Essential Systems, Services, and Supports gives parents the tools to conquer the stuff, so that they can spend less time filling out forms, and more time loving their children exactly as they are. With over a decade of experience navigating these systems for her own child, author Kelley Coleman presents key information, templates, and wisdom alongside practical advice from over 40 experts, covering topics such as diagnosis, working with your medical team, insurance, financial planning, disability rights and advocacy, and individualized education plans. Everything No One Tells You About Parenting a Disabled Child gives parents the tools they need to stop wasting unnecessary time, money, and stress. If you need to know how to actually do the things, this book is for you.
Download or read book The Special Needs Parent Handbook written by Jonathan Singer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...is a compilation of life lessons learned by the parents of a child with significant special needs. The book shares critical strategies and practical advice to help you navigate the maze of financial, educational and emotional decisions you will face each day as a parent or caregiver. This handbook is designed to help you focus on what is most important in your life as you deal with the constant challenges. You will learn how to survive and even thrive while providing the best for your child."--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book 30 Days to Your Special Needs Trust written by Rob Wrubel and published by Rosalibean Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 30 Days to Your Special Needs Trust - A Quick Start Guide to Your Special Needs Estate Plan Estate planning is an urgent issue for families who have a member with an intellectual or developmental disability. This crucial planning step can preserve income, health insurance and access to programs to support a person with disabilities, but too many families get stuck and don't act. Families cannot afford to get stuck. The potential value of benefits is too great to lose. 30 Days to Your Special Needs Trust focuses on simplifying the decisions families have to make. It encourages you to take action and complete your special-needs trust and estate plan to protect your family. This quick-start guide will help you: - Act quickly to protect valuable benefit programs - Learn the primary decisions to make in creating an estate plan - Create a list of names to fill key roles - Reduce stress when you finish this important planning step
Download or read book Parenting an Adult with Disabilities or Special Needs written by Peggy Lou MORGAN and published by AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn. This book was released on 2009-01-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every parent of a child with disabilities knows just how overwhelming and frustrating it can be. When these children enter adulthood, the difficulties can become even greater. Many parents are tempted to keep their children at home, believing that they will be safer and happier under their care. But adults with special needs deserve the same chance at a happy life as everyone else. As the mother of an adult child with disabilities, Peggy Lou Morgan has years of experience dealing with the challenges these adults face every day. She believes that the most loving thing parents can do for their children is to prepare them to leave home in a way that works best for them. In Parenting an Adult with Disabilities or Special Needs, she gives parents invaluable advice on: teaching their adult child to be a self-advocate • helping their child cope with relationships • helping their child find a good vocational program • finding an apartment and a roommate • understanding government programs that can help their children while they become more independent Compassionate and thorough, this guide will help readers to ensure that their children leave the nest with confidence and joy.
Download or read book Real Families Real Needs written by Joni and Friends, Inc. and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a family is affected by disability, everyone’s life changes. Whether you’re a father, mother, sibling, grandparent, or other relative, you have specific questions based on your role in the family as well as unique needs for support. Real Families, Real Needs by Joni and Friends not only answers those questions, but also provides godly advice and spiritual hope for the challenges you face. Divided into five sections written specifically for every member of the family, this book also offers encouragement, Scriptures to lean on, practical ideas, and more. Learn from the stories of families like yours, and be inspired as they share how God has helped them live victoriously through the challenges of life with disability. Find comfort and peace in a community of people who understand what you face on a daily basis. You are not alone!
Download or read book Sharing Love Abundantly in Special Needs Families written by Gary Chapman and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With a frank and honest observation on how disability can unravel family unity, this book inspires and equips us to live out our faith as we interact with those we love." -Joni Eareckson Tada, founder & CEO, Joni and Friends Between the worry, the doctor’s appointments, and the thousand small challenges of everyday life, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and exhausted. The idea of showing abundant love to every member of your family can feel like a daunting task. Jolene Philo has been there. And in this wise, warm, practical guide, she and Dr. Gary Chapman show you how the 5 love languages can help strengthen your marriage and family life—whatever your needs. Sharing dozens of stories from parents of children with special needs children, they teach you how to: protect your marriage amidst the stress discover and speak the love language of your child—even if they’re nonverbal accommodate the love languages for children with special needs and disabilities show love to every member of your family when you have limited time, money, and energy Having a special needs child shouldn’t mean sacrificing a full family life. Learn to share love abundantly no matter your circumstances.
Download or read book Disability and the Family written by H. Rutherford Turnbull (III) and published by Brookes Publishing Company. This book was released on 1989 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Focusing on helping answer families' questions concerning the future needs of their family member with a disability, this practical, easy-to-use guide presents a plan that respects choices...of the adolescent or adult with disabilities...of the parents...of other family members. Disability and the Family: A Guide to Decisions for Adulthood introduces guidelines for making plans that are legally and financially effective, that consider real-life choices and preferences, and that take into account the social, leisure, residential, and vocational options that can help ensure a desired quality of life for persons with disabilities and their families. Here-in one source book-are guidelines and strategies for simplifying the future planning process" -- Back cover.
Download or read book The Parent to Parent Handbook written by Betsy Santelli and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive book, you'll learn how to develop and maintain a strong local Parent to Parent program that individually matches "veteran" supporting parents with those who are new to the challenges of caring for a child with a disability.
Download or read book Dear Loved Ones written by Julie Falcone and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-22 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't fall for the filtered pictures and perfect social media posts... Parents raising children with invisible special needs are hanging on by the tiniest thread. We NEED the support of our extended family and friends to get through our days filled with violent tantrums, challenging behaviors, and constant battles. The good news Grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, neighbors and friends desperately want to help us. The bad news their "help" comes off as insensitive or judgemental, making matters worse, not better. Julie Falcone is a mother in the trenches, raising four children diagnosed with autism, ADHD, anxiety, sensory processing disorder, depression, developmental delay and oppositional defiant disorder, who gives a brutally honest, behind the scenes look at what raising children with invisible special needs looks like on a daily basis. Loved Ones get no-nonsense advice on exactly what to say and do in specific situations that occur often with these struggling parents. DEAR LOVED ONES, with grit and humor, will give family and friends a variety of ways to truly support the special needs family they love, creating positive relationships that will last a lifetime. If you love someone raising a child with invisible special needs, this book is THE resource to challenge and inspire you to be the ally your loved one deserves! Inside, you'll find fun chapters that touch on important & helpful topics like:: IS THAT A SHARPIE? FLEXIBLE SCHMEXIBLE STOP STARING AT ME BITCHES FRIENDS, WHAT ARE THEY? SENSORY ISSUES ARE MORE THAN JUST AN ITCHY TAG And many more
Download or read book Life Care Planning for Your Child written by Gwendolyn A. Faulkner and published by . This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life Care Planning for Special Needs Families is the first in a series of books designed to help the parents of special needs children to make informed decisions about their child's future. The book and the accompanying website, SpecialNeedsRoadmaps.com, show parents how to become proactive advocates for their special needs child of any age - toddler to adult.
Download or read book Parents and Families of Students With Special Needs written by Vicki A. McGinley and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parents and Families of Students With Special Needs: Collaborating Across the Age Span teaches students the skills they need to effectively collaborate with parents and families to ensure a child′s success in the classroom. The text takes a lifespan approach with a special emphasis on the critical transition points in a child’s life. Information is provided on what can be seen at each stage of an individual with disabilities’ development, and addresses the concerns and needs that families may have during these unique phases of growth. The authors provide an in-depth discussion of how parents and families are affected by particular disabilities, family system theory, the laws that affect individuals with disabilities, and assessments for individuals with disabilities. Chapters written by academics and professionals who are also parents of students with special needs bring a diverse range of voices into the narrative.
Download or read book Disability in the Family written by Barbara Boroson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-24 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful guide shows professionals how to collaborate with parents and guardians of children with disabilities in empathic, respectful, knowledgeable, and supportive ways. Packed with first-hand accounts and advice from parents and guardians, this book shines a light on lived experiences and reveals paths toward meeting families where they are in order to move forward together. Boroson emphasizes that appreciating the real needs of these families is a crucial step beyond mere adherence to a generic set of professional best practices or principles. Whether working in the field of medicine, education, law, mental health, or related services—in any capacity—readers will come away with the holistic knowledge, inclusive language, productive strategies, and differentiated understanding needed to work effectively with the diverse families they serve. Included is a robust array of resources for families, such as books, articles, associations, organizations, and support networks, along with a website for additional, up-to-date resources.
Download or read book The Family Guide to Children with Disabilities written by Mika Adams and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2014-07-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Family Guide to Children with Disabilities A Workbook Series for Parents of Children with Special Needs The purpose of this workbook is to guide you, as parents of a child with special needs, as you address the many concerns and needs of your child as he or she develops. This is the first of a series of publications that will assist you in seeking the appropriate services that your child needs to develop to the maximum extent possible. Parents are a vital part of the team of professionals who work collaboratively to benefit the child. The other members of the team may vary from child to child, but each team should be led by the family and supported by the professionals who have specific areas of expertise. Remember that you know your child better than anyone else. Be ready to share the information that promotes the implementation of the appropriate combination of services to help your child progress. In this workbook, we begin at the beginning, covering the ages of birth through age five when your child begins school. We walk you step-by-step through the various stages of development and help you as you navigate various services available to your child, as well as your role as their advocate. You are encouraged to make your own notes regarding the different sections. Taking the opportunity to write down your questions helps you remember and discuss any issues you might have and provides you with time to reflect on your next, best move. Share this material with your spouse or partner and any other caregivers (including your pediatrician) so that you can provide a complete picture of your child's development.
