Emergencymanagers, your current task is to address local efforts to prepare your community members with disabilities in the event of a disaster – this is a worthy objective. Two concise and comprehensive overviews are

An Overview of Disability in America, Population Reference Bureau,www.prb.org.

Making Community Emergency
Preparedness & Response Programs Accessible to all
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Readiness Tips for people with disabilities
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Emergencies can happen at a moment's notice. It is important to know your plans ahead of time so you are better prepared for any urgent situation. The booklet below gives tips on getting informed, making a plan, assembling a kit, and maintaining these plans for people with mobility problems or who have hearing, learning, or seeing disabilities.
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Dyslexic people are visual, multi-dimensional thinkers. We are intuitive and highly creative, and excel at hands-on learning. Because we think in pictures, it is sometimes hard for us to understand letters, numbers, symbols, and written words.

We can learn to read, write and study efficiently when we use methods geared to our unique learning style.

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If you and your partner are parenting a child with special needs, here are some suggestions to help your relationship
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Marriage is tough enough. Does it get tougher if you have a special-needs child? Recent research seems to suggest that may be true.
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Emergency planning and preparedness for individuals with special needs is a critical task which must be addressed in emergency plans. The following do***ents and links are provided to assist emergency planners, managers and responders in addressing the unique needs of people with disabilities during an emergency or disaster
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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Parents of a child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are nearly twice as likely to divorce by the time the child is 8 years old than parents of children without ADHD, the first study to look at this issue in depth has shown.
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The National Autism Association (NAA) has launched what it refers to as the ‘first national program to combat divorces rates in autism community; it hopes to “confirm or update that percentage [80%] before referencing it in its program materials”. And the ‘toll’ that the stress of raising an autistic child can take on a marriage has more recently been in the news.
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Caring for my special needs child is taking a toll on me. I resigned from a job seven years ago to care for my child. I love my child with all my heart, I thought things would get better, but I can’t seem to overcome these feelings. I find myself crying, shouting and cussing God, wondering why my daughter was dealt this terrible hand in life. My husband is never emotionally there for me.
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