Child-of-care is often more than parents can bear
Sixty percent of parents with a ‘care-intensive’ child get overworked or get a burnout. These are children who require a lot of support because of a disability, [...]
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Dissemination of leaflets at REVA
Dissemination of leaflets at REVA on 25, 26, 27 of April, 2019: REVA, GENT FLANDERS EXPO, Ghent, [...]
During her pregnancy, Nathalie took a medication that left her daughter disabled: neither her doctor nor the leaflet warned her of the danger.
If you are pregnant, be careful when using “Depakine”, a drug used to treat epilepsy or migraine, but containing a molecule called “Valproate”, which [...]
Family support
In families with a mentally disabled family member, extra help is sometimes required. This is possible at Philadelphia. With family support we offer help in the daily life of [...]
I offered my son with a disability death: a mother’s testimony will not go through..
The interview with Anne Ratier, who confesses in a book that she murdered her three-year-old son with a disability, shocked Minister Sophie Cluzel and internet users deeply. [...]
Flanders broadens directly accessible aid for children and young people with disabilities
Low-threshold, quickly deployable help for children and young people with disabilities deployed close to the family and in child care or at school, that is the aim of a new [...]
And what if it’s Down’s syndrome?
While March 21 has just been recognized as World Down Syndrome Day, Augustin Paluel-Marmont, co-founder of the Michel Et Augustin biscuit brand, has launched a comprehensive [...]
Guidance – How to survive the emotional roller coaster
Did you just hear that your child has a disability, it’s like sitting on an emotional roller coaster. Sadness, anger, powerlessness, guilt, love, fear and even aversion [...]
[ Video] The disabled child and the other children in the family.
Parents of a child with a very expect a lot from him or her and spend a lot of time caring for him or her, creating hope for his or her development, investing him or her…. [...]
MY SONS AREN’T SICK.
Huguette has two adult sons, Jarrick is 27 and Cedric 25. Both of them have a mental handicap. They have come a long way together and it didn’t always go very smoothly. [...]