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Parenting Impossible – The Special Needs Survival Podcast

Sep 28, 2022

When your family is faced with natural disasters or emergency situations, how do you cope?  For families with children with disabilities or complex medical needs, what types of plans do you have in place to protect their access to medicines, devices or equipment, food and more? Host Annette Hines and her guest, Patricia...


Sep 21, 2022

Sensitive Topic Warning: Host Annette Hines discusses child abuse and child sexual abuse in this episode. She introduces the episode by reflecting on the report of the abuse of a young man with disabilities in a group home in southern Illinois published on ProPublica.org, noting that the incidence of abuse is much...


Sep 14, 2022

What do you do when your five-month-old child has seizures that are only happening at night?

For writer Marc Palmieri, it was hard to know whether the strained movements and odd facial expressions were a problem for his young daughter Anna, when she had been a healthy, happy baby otherwise. Ultimately, Anna was...


Sep 8, 2022

Host Annette Hines opens the episode sharing about the month of September and the celebrations of Special Needs Companies, which includes the 10 years of service of Special Needs Law Group of Massachusetts and 3 years of hosting Parenting Impossible Podcast!  Plus, this month is the start of the online Transition...