BOOK REVIEW: Who Cares: A Loving Guide for My Future Caregivers
A guide provides a way for the parents or guardians of children with special needs to map out in detail who their child is and the care he or she should receive.
Read moreA guide provides a way for the parents or guardians of children with special needs to map out in detail who their child is and the care he or she should receive.
Read moreSenator Kennedy and his son, Representative Kennedy, are advocating for differing federal mental health parity bills.
Read moreIn existence for less than a year, the Academy of Special Needs Planners (ASNP) has already become the largest membership organization of special needs planning attorneys in the country.
Read moreIn an apparent violation of federal law, states are increasingly using nursing homes to house young and middle-age people with mental illnesses.
Read moreWhen care needs are significant or family members cannot be available, parents may wish to include instructions in a special needs trust for the trustee to retain a professional care manager.
Read moreAn overlooked portion of recent Medicare legislation promises Medicare recipients greater access to mental health benefits.
Read moreThe U.S. Department of Justice recently sent the state of Florida a letter accusing it of illegally placing children with special needs in nursing homes.
Read moreIn the month since new regulations governing mental health parity went into effect, several insurance companies have complained that the regulations go too far in their attempt to limit how insurance companies select and reimburse providers and manage care.
Read moreThe federal government has designed a new Web site, HealthCare.gov, that helps people, including those with special needs, navigate the new health insurance law.
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