For Counselors
- Counseling Parents of Young Children with Disabilities: - From the August 2002 Early Childhood newsletter: "Your child is not turning out to be the child you thought. You're grieving, but at the same time, you're in love with your child," Robert Naseef says of parents of a young child with a disability.
- Related Services For School-Aged Children With Disabilities - The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) mandates that "all children with disabilities have available to them...a free appropriate public education which emphasizes special education and related services designed to meet their unique needs..." (Section 601[c]). In accordance with the IDEA and other federal laws, more than 4.5 million children with disabilities across the nation received special education and/or related services in the 1989-90 school year.
- Loneliness in Children with Disabilities - PDF file. This article explains the dynamics of severe loneliness often experienced by children with disabilities.