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October 28, 2021

Special Needs Trusts - Advantages of a Pooled Trust

Setting up a Third Party-Special Needs trust as part of estate planning is essential if the individual with a disability is or may be eligible for means-tested government benefits. A properly set up Third Party Trust ensures that the funds left to the individual, whether through gift or inheritance, are not considered countable assets when applying for means tested benefits

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October 15, 2021

Special Needs Trusts - First Party or Third Party?

A special needs trust is a written legal agreement that enables an individual with a disability to qualify or remain qualified for means tested government benefits, such as medicaid, SSI or even medicaid waivers.

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July 1, 2020

Letting Go

As your child with CP is becoming a teenager, there are a couple of things you may want to think about.

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July 1, 2020

Supporting Reading for a Child who is Non-Verbal

I'm going to be talking about AAC and reading and some different things that you might not think about when you are doing those types of activities. When you're supporting reading for a nonverbal child, whether they use a high-tech system or a light-tech system, like a paperboard, you want to make sure that they have plenty of the opportunities to contribute to the experience. You want to be able to comment. You want to be able to talk about the people, the places, the things, and maybe the feelings that they have.

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