Cognitive Disabilities and Your Child with Blindness or Low Vision

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Children who have complex needs that involve cognition or thinking have difficulty understanding information and processing it. A common cause of cognitive disabilities is an intellectual disability. A child may seem to have cognitive disabilities due to other impairments affecting their function. For instance, a child with blindness and severe cerebral palsy might have limited […]

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 with Complex Needs

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Don’t underestimate the value of successful employment 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.  Although work brings enormous benefits, finding the right job can be challenging. Rather than seeing obstacles as dead ends, […]

Helping a Child with Multiple Disabilities Develop Their Senses

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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 […]