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Find an EPIC-IC Medical Home practice for your child!

  • A family-centered medical home is not a building, house, hospital, or home healthcare service. It is an approach to providing comprehensive primary care.
  • In a family-centered medical home the pediatric care team works in partnership with your child and your family to assure that all of the medical and non-medical needs of your child are met.
  • Through this partnership the pediatric care team can help your family access, coordinate, and understand specialty care, educational services, out-of-home care, family support, and other public and private community services that are important for the overall health of your child and family.
  • The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) developed the medical home model for delivering primary care that is accessible, continuous, comprehensive, family-centered, coordinated, compassionate, and culturally effective to all children and youth, including those with special health care needs.

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Check out our Resources Database! Find health, education, safety, transition, child care and other resources for parents and caregivers of children and youth with special health care needs.

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  • hi thankyou.....it's been a while since i have been on a site like this one.....i was without a computer for quite sometime....you really don't know how much you will miss something til it's gone. it's nice to connect with other people who know what it's like to have children with special needs and although we all have different challenges with our children there is an understanding that wecan have for each otherand we no longer feel quite as alone. take care jennifer
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  • Welcome, I have a son with RAD (reactive attachment disorder) went though many trauma at a young age. I adopted him and have had an on going battle of wills. His out pt therapist took a new job and we are now going to meet a new therapist.He doesn't do well with change. He acts out instead of verablizing his problems. This causes many problems in our home and with neighbors,friends.I ask myself everyday what can I do differently,or am I doing more harm then good on days that he is at his worst.No one is there to tell or offer any helpSo I take one day at a time and enjoy the good days and cry alot on the bad days.
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News

ADHD at Home, at Work and in the Classroom

14 February 2012
A Half-Day Conference for Parents, Teachers, Professionals, and Adults with ADHDH
Hosted by the Chester County/Main Line chapter of CHADD
(Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder)

CHADD

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Next Steps Workshop for Families

08 February 2012

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The Center for Autism Research and the Regional Autism Center at
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia invite you to
Next Steps Workshop for Families

A Workshop for Parents Supporting Young Children
with an Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Pennsylvania DPW Releases Nation's Most Comprehensive Autism Needs Assessment

27 January 2012

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For more information about the Department of Public Welfare and the PA Autism Needs Assessment Study, visitwww.dpw.state.pa.us or call the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare Bureau of Autism Services at 1-866-539-7689.

Media contact: Carey Miller or Anne Bale, 717-425-7606

Editor's Note: An electronic copy of the full report can be found here.

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