Maryland Chief Donna Wolf Mother Abbott on Native American Heritage
Chief Donna Wolf Mother Abbott is the first woman chief of the Nause-Waiwash Band of Indians, a community of about 300 people descended from...
Home for the Holidays: Helping Foster Children & Adopted Children Feel Welcome
For children in foster care, the holidays aren’t necessarily the happiest time of the year.These children may be longing for or missing their biological...
Rare Disease Awareness: Microcephaly
For most parents, awareness about microcephaly might be limited to distant memories of online articles about Zika virus and accompanying pictures of infants with...
Fundracing Run for a Cause—All Year Long
Running helps build and maintain strong bones, strengthens muscles, improves heart health and helps control stress. But with the popularity of charity 5Ks, fun...
What is Vision Therapy?
By Bart A. StumpIt started subtly—the occasional complaint of words moving around on the page or struggling to line up the numbers in a...
Facing Differences
Using facial differences to open up conversations about what makes us uniqueMayo Clinic facial reconstruction surgeon Dr. Samir Mardini and physician-scientist Dr. Marissa Suchyta...
Autism and Eloping
Learn how to prevent accidental drowning and avoid dangerous situations. A recent spike in drownings among autistic children alarmed national autism organizations and health experts...
Adopting Children with Developmental Disabilities
Every child deserves to have a family, but just one generation ago, many children with disabilities were considered unadoptable.This was the case when Robin...
Using Our Voices for Selective Mutism Awareness
Gregarious. Imaginative. Involved. That’s how Dr. Lisa Kovac described her daughter Noelle’s personality as a child. Young Noelle would put on plays at home...
When to Disclose Your Child’s Disability at School
For people with “invisible disabilities,” life can feel like a long series of decisions to disclose or not to disclose.Kids with nonapparent disabilities start...
