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Planning for the Financial Future of a Child with Multiple Disabilities: Steps 1 Through 12

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by Steve Morris Step 1: Decide What the Future Looks Like for Your Child First, decide on future plans for your special needs child after your death or if you become unable to care for them. Consider where they will live, employment possibilities, and future education. Also address details like their social life and religious […]

Who Should Manage Your Child’s Special Needs Trust?

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by Steve Morris A good synonym for trustee would be agent or, better yet, super agent. Our law refers to super agents as “Fiduciary.” The trustee is responsible for managing the special needs trusts on behalf of the person with the disability. When a trustee is named, that trustee is given, both by the maker […]

Future Employment Options for Your Child Who is Blind/Low Vision with Multiple Disabilities

The value of successful employment should not be underestimated for your child who is blind or low vision with complex needs. Successful employment provides: All of these contribute to a positive self-concept and a satisfying, emotionally healthy life. While working will be enormously beneficial to your child, identifying an appropriate job and successfully performing job […]

Helping a Child with Multiple Disabilities Develop Their Senses

A teen boy in a wheelchair holding and exploring a basketball inside a gym.

Our senses are our gateway to the world. They are how we obtain information, gain understanding, and interact with the objects and people around us. Suppose your child has blindness or low vision and additional disabilities. In that case, your child will need to use all of their functional (remaining) senses—vision, hearing, touch, smell, and […]

Orientation and Mobility and the Expanded Core Curriculum

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What Is Orientation & Mobility (O&M)? This area of the expanded core curriculum (ECC) focuses on two broad, interrelated components: orientation (knowing one’s position in relation to other things in one’s surroundings and keeping track of how these relations/positions change as one moves through the environment) and mobility (the physical act of moving from one […]

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