DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Special Needs Families in the Military

A Resource Guide

Don Philpott author Janelle B Moore author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Government Institutes

Published:16th Jan '11

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

This hardback is available in another edition too:

Special Needs Families in the Military cover

This resource guide offers vital support and information for military families raising special needs children, addressing unique challenges and available resources. Special Needs Families in the Military is essential reading.

The saying it takes a village to raise a child resonates deeply for families with special needs children. In Special Needs Families in the Military, authors Janelle Hill and Don Philpott explore the unique challenges faced by these families, particularly within the military context. These families often rely on a dedicated team of therapists, doctors, nurses, counselors, and educators to navigate the complexities of raising a child with special needs. However, the demands of military life can amplify these challenges, making it essential for families to find reliable resources and support.

This resource guide addresses a variety of pressing issues that special needs families encounter, including diagnoses, financial assistance, educational opportunities, medical care, and advocacy. The authors provide practical advice on case management and insurance, highlighting strategies to cope with the mental and emotional hurdles that often accompany these circumstances. By focusing on the unique needs of military families, Special Needs Families in the Military emphasizes the importance of community support and the various programs available to help ease the burden.

Through detailed guidance on navigating procedures and protocols, this book equips families with the tools necessary to manage setbacks and unexpected challenges. It serves as an essential resource for military families raising special needs children, as well as for professionals who support them, ensuring that no family feels alone in their journey.

From the authors of The Wounded Warrior Handbook (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008), this volume fills the need for guidance and advice for military families with special-needs children. As explained in the foreword, the book “is not intended to be a guide for any specific special need, but an overall ‘compass’ of sorts to help families familiarize themselves with their options.” Some of these options, such as the Special Care Organizational Record (SCOR) for Children with Special Health Care Needs, provided by the Department of Defense, are unique to the military, making this an especially useful guide. A number of challenges, such as the discontinuity caused by frequent moves to new locations, are unique as well. Chapters cover diagnoses, caregiving, education, insurance, funding support, legal issues, advocacy, and more. Resources such as TRICARE (the military health entitlement program) and the Exceptional Family Medical Programs of each branch of the military are clearly explained. A final chapter provides sample letters and lists of useful websites and phone numbers. Although the focus is on children, many of the benefits and services (as well as the challenges) apply to adults as well. In a process that is already fraught with confusion and misunderstanding, dealing with the changing policies, services, and terms used from location to location only adds to the stress. This book will help alleviate some of the confusion. * Booklist *
Special Needs Families in the Military: A Resource Guide is an inch-deep and a mile-wide resource for service members unexpectedly confronted by special needs issues. The authors explore topics applicable to all special needs families–and some unique to the military....The book serves as a useful overview for anyone encountering special needs issues for the first time. “The chapters on education, insurance, and medical care do an especially good job of informing readers on their respective topics” “The final chapter on resources is another of the book’s strengths. Here, readers will find contact information for advocacy and support groups for various disabilities, as well as numerous simple demand letters that can assist parents with obtaining records, appealing administrative decisions, or taking other such action to benefit their children * The Colorado Lawyer *

ISBN: 9781605907154

Dimensions: 240mm x 162mm x 24mm

Weight: 587g

280 pages