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Living with a Dual Diagnosis: When Mental Disorder Meets Substance Use Disorder

Mental and emotional disorders present challenges on two fronts: dealing with the disorder itself, and dealing with stigma attached to the disorder. Public understanding has come a long way in recent decades, but it’s still easy to find people who…

BridgingApps Reviewed App | Breathe2Relax

BridgingApps just published the following BridgingApps Reviewed App on the site: Breathe2Relax is a stress management app which provides detailed information on the effects of stress on the body and instructions and practice exercises to help users learn the stress…

BridgingApps Reviewed App | Mind Journey

BridgingApps just published the following BridgingApps Reviewed App on the site: Mind Journey is a meditation and mindfulness app that allows users to practice those skill in just 10 minutes each day. The app includes four different categories for the…

When It’s Your Turn to Make Reasonable Accommodations

Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, anyone with a disability has the right to “reasonable accommodations“–modifications to public and work environments as required for equal participation in everyday activities. A few examples: employee handbooks in audio form; captions or a…

Special Needs and Unwanted Surprises: Dealing with Last-Minute Disruptions in an Uncertain World

Read Time 5 Minutes If there’s anything worse than having your plans spoiled, it’s having plans spoiled when they include someone who has autism or Down syndrome, who never heard the unspoken “circumstances permitting” behind “we’ll go to the beach…

Family Travel with a Disability

Written By Katherine SwartsRead Time 3 Minutes No exaggeration: Googling “family travel horror stories” will get you over 100 million results. If there’s a foolproof method for getting a whole household into the next state or through an airport without…

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When Your Parent(s) and Your Child(ren) Have Special Needs

Written By Katherine SwartsRead Time 7 Minutes July is National Sandwich Generation Month—a time to honor everyone who has accepted the challenge of helping aging parents while simultaneously raising minor children. Even if your children are self-reliant for their age…

Why Cognitive Decline Needn’t Be Inevitable

Written By Katherine SwartsRead Time 5 Minutes Nearly 6 million Americans—and 1 in 9 people over age 65—have Alzheimer’s disease, the best-known and most dreaded form of dementia. But Alzheimer’s isn’t the only cause of memory, reasoning, or concentration difficulties…

Special Needs Parenting Tips for Fathers

Written By Katherine SwartsRead Time 6 Minutes To celebrate Father’s Day, today’s post is written for fathers, who often feel neglected amidst all the parenting advice and support groups aimed at mothers. Every dedicated father—single or paired up, full-time or…