* Special education advocacy for the military family

 * Educational and transition support for military-connected children

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 * Dental care for your special needs kid!  Yup!

 * The Post 922 GI Bill:  a way to pay for your dependents' college

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The mother of two adult children, one male and one female, with Sanfilippo syndrome – a devastating neurodevelopmental disorder with no known cure – was a guest on the Dr. Phil show on April 13, 2012.  The mother was there to discuss what she claimed was her right to remove feeding tubes (G-tubes) from her children.  Her children were dependent on nourishment through these tubes, having been dependent on this method of nutritional support for decades.  The program was somewhat one-sided in favor of the mother’s position, and at the end of the program, the audience voted overwhelmingly that she had a right to disengage the tubes.  The concern of the AADMD is that the average person on the street will look at a human being who could have one of any number of neurodevelopmental disorders, and judge that person as either terminally ill, or judge them as a person living a life without hope or meaning.  We thought it was important to make the statement that people with neurodevelopmental disorders and intellectual disabilities are neither terminally ill nor living lives without hope or value.  To regard them as anything other than human beings whose lives have value is to diminish all of our lives.  It is morally and ethically wrong and the Academy wishes to accentuate this point.  The appended AADMD Position Statement expresses our unified belief on the principles set forth in the attachment that follows... 

Henry Hood, DMD
Co Chair, External Affairs
AADMD

Jun 17, 2012 - 12:02:43 PM Read more

Living with a TBI survivor is like living with a Jack-in-the-Box. But if there is one universal truth about TBI, it is that survivors need strong advocates in order to navigate mind boggling challenges.

By Joel Goldstein

Imagine this Sci-Fi movie scenario: a silent epidemic haunts the land – a monstrous scourge ruthlessly killing off 50,000 people, year after year. Teenagers out for a joy ride, elderly at home in showers or on stairs, weekend warriors on sturdy mountain bikes, and toddlers on the playgrounds.  No one is safe. Every 20 seconds, one witnesses a brutal attack, and though many survive, they are often disabled, disfigured outwardly or in baffling invisible ways.

May 14, 2012 - 4:07:35 PM Read more

New Book on Military Brain Injuries Shows Technique

A recent University of North Carolina study showed that the average college football player receives over 300 blows to the head in four seasons. In the pros it is even higher.

Aug 11, 2011 - 9:39:30 AM Read more

Researchers affiliated with Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that risk factors for post-traumatic stress symptomatology (PTSS) among Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)/Operational Iraqi Freedom (OIF) male veterans were relatively similar to what was observed in a prior group of Vietnam veterans. The findings, which currently appear online in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, suggest there are key pathways through which risk factors contribute to PTSS across different male veteran cohorts. In addition, the researchers also identified a number of novel mechanisms of risk for OEF/OIF female veterans.

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