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Challenges Facing Parents With Developmental Disabilities -
Life experiences of parents with developmental disabilities may take
their toll over time, especially if others have negatively valued
the parents. Over time, parents may have internalized these negative
expectations.
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Disability Cool: Parents With Disabilities -Is it
cool to be disabled? ... we think so. Through this web site, we plan
to challenge all the preconceived notions about what it's like to
live with a disability... the good parts and the bad parts. When
we've finished with you, we hope you will never again accept
society's stereotypes and low levels of expectations of what people
think we should be.
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Disabled Parents Network (DPN)
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Disabled
Parents Network (DPN)
is a national
organization of and for disabled people who are parents or who hope
to become parents, and their families, friends and supporters.
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Helping Yourself Through Family Court Proceedings:
A Guide for Parents with Psychiatric Disabilities
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following are suggestions from parents with psychiatric
disabilities, service providers, and representatives of Family
Courts on how you can help yourself and your children during any
Family Court proceedings involving custody. They are not intended as
legal counsel, but may serve to help you to understand the process
of Family Court and what steps you can take to best care for
yourself and your children.
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Parents with Disabilities Online
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For too long,
people with disabilities had been told that having families of our
own was not an option. The truth is, though, that we have always
been parents, and as our society evolves, more and more of us will
have access to that opportunity. If you are a parent with a
disability, a person with a disability who is planning to become a
parent, or a nondisabled partner of a disabled parent, this site is
for you. We hope that this page is a good place to start on your own
journey toward independent parenting.
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Parents with Disabilities a Resource Center
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Parents With
Developmental Disabilities:
A Fair Chance - "A Fair Chance"
hears from
six families with parents with
developmental disabilities who talk frankly about their hopes and
fears as parents. Organized into six segments, each about eight
minutes in length, this program profiles the strengths and
limitations of six parents who have developmental
disabilities. These challenging stories lead one to ask "are parents
being given a fair chance to raise their own children?"
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Parents with Disabilities and Their Teens
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Providing Support to
Parents who have Developmental Disabilities
- When looking for
information about best practices in supporting parents with
developmental disabilities, one is immediately struck by the lack of
information available. Much of the information on parenting and
disability focuses on physical disability, with supports being
framed in terms of physical environmental modifications that make
the day to day aspects of parenting doable. But the notion that
people with cognitive disabilities also are parents comes as a shock
to some people. This outdated idea has been made part of policies
and procedures in some agencies: people with cognitive disabilities
are at increased risk of having their children removed from them
simply due to misguided perceptions that people with cognitive
disabilities can’t be adequate parents
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Temporary
Assistance
for Needy Families (TANF) & Teen Parents with Disabilities
- The purpose of this guide is
to show how States may use Federal TANF and State MOE funds to
support working families and to address the needs of clients with
barriers to self-sufficiency. The flexibility available under TANF
presents new opportunities for funding a greater variety of
activities, services, and benefits and for fostering new
collaborative partnerships.
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Through the Looking Glass
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Through the Looking Glass (TLG) is a nationally
recognized center that has pioneered research, training, and
services for families in which a child, parent or grandparent has a
disability or medical issue. TLG is a disability community based
nonprofit organization, which emerged from the independent living
movement, and was founded in 1982 in Berkeley, California. Our
mission is "To create, demonstrate and encourage non-pathological
and empowering resources and model early intervention services for
families with disability issues in parent or child which integrate
expertise derived from personal disability experience and disability
culture."
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When a Parent has MS: A Teenagers Guide -
This booklet explores the
experiences of some people whose parents have MS. Some are teenagers
and some are young adults who remember what it was like. Their
problems range from minor annoyances, like having to be extra
careful not to leave things on the floor, to deeper emotions of
anger, embarrassment, and guilt. They agreed to share their stories
and suggest some ways of dealing with what happens when a parent (or
someone else at home) has MS.
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When Mom or Dad has Seizures: A Guide for Young People
- Epilepsy Foundation. Designed as a companion guide to "Parenting
and You," this guide discusses children's feelings about their
parent's disorder. It is divided into sections for preschool,
elementary, middle, and high school-aged children
