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Insurance Blog Week in Review – May 27 – June 2, 2012

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The Insurance Blog Week in Review provides you with a quick and easy way to “ketchup” on all the blogs that appeared here in the past week. There can be anywhere between twelve and fourteen different blogs that go up. What did you miss? Lloyd’s of London Denied Coverage for Bill Paxton The insurer that is well known for approving of all kinds of strange insurance policies denied a request made by Bill Paxton for life insurance. CalPERS Will Offer Coverage for Same-Sex Couples The California retirement fund for state employees will now be able to offer long-term care insurance … Continue reading →

Special Needs Blog Week in Review – April 1 – 7, 2012

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Every week, the Special Needs Blog Week in Review gives you a brief description of all of the blogs that appeared there in the past seven days. This is a good way to find the blogs that you missed, but perhaps would have liked to read when they first appeared. The Special Needs Podcast Roundup went up on April 2, 2012. This time, I’d like to point out an episode of NPR’s “All Things Considered”. The episode is called “N.Y. Preschool Starts DNA Testing for Admission”. If something in the child’s DNA makes the school think that he or she … Continue reading →

Homeschool Questions and Answers: Reversing Letters

Question: My son still reverses letters. . .sequences of things etc. I’m fairly confident at this point that he has issues with letter reversals. In looking for resources but what I’m finding is stuff for kids who are behind–which my son is not. He is about to start 4th grade math (just started 2nd grade) and I fully anticipate that he’ll get at least half way through 5th grade. . .and he reads at a solid 2nd grade level. So why worry about a bunch of backwards numbers and letters? I’m not worried but I sense that at this point, … Continue reading →

Home Study Denied!

For a person or couple who’ve been told they are unable to adopt through a particular agency, it can be devastating. Sometimes the fate of whether a couple will have children lies in the opinion of their assigned adoption worker. Just because a person is denied by an agency doesn’t always mean they will be denied for adoption altogether. For example: If you are hoping to adopt through your state’s foster system and your home study is denied because the adoption worker does not feel you will be best suited for one of their children, this does not mean that … Continue reading →

Preparing for Your Home Study

Don’t panic! Though there are many things to do, there is no reason to become overly stressed about your home study. First, emotionally prepare yourself that home studies can take quite some time to complete. Keep in mind, if there are other adults living in your home, they too will likely have to complete parts of the home study process in order for your family to be approved. There are typically many steps to a home study, some of which may in include (in no particular order): Completed applications for adoption: In addition to being asked for basic information about … Continue reading →

Parent Sues Autism Speaks for Disability Discrimination

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A mother of a teenager who has autism has filed a lawsuit against Autism Speaks. The reason is because Autism Speaks rescinded on a job offer after she requested workplace accommodations that would allow her to care for her son. It seems strange that an autism awareness group would deny that that type of request. According to Disability Scoop Simone Greggs was offered a job as a walk events manager at Autism Speaks office in Washington D.C., in May of 2012. To get this job, she had to successfully complete five different interviews, a pre-employment background check, and a drug … Continue reading →

Tips for Fighting a Health Insurance Claim Denial

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Your insurance company just denied your claim for that procedure, treatment, or doctor’s office visit that you were sure was something they were supposed to cover. You may be considering fighting that disputed claim, but have no idea how to go about doing that. Here are some helpful hints that can get you started. It can be frustrating to discover that your health insurance company, that you have been faithfully paying premiums to, has refused to cover some of your medical bills. Those bills are probably going to be higher than your budget can comfortably handle. This could leave you … Continue reading →

Choose your References Carefully

There are some things in the adoption application that need more consideration than others. One of those things is your references. You and your spouse need to sit and make a list of your friends. Look at the list and give consideration to any marital problems, work problems or any recent disagreements that you have had with that friend. I mention this because of a problem that we encountered with one of our references. The agency sends out request to the people you list, we used friends from work and our personal lives. In the letter from the agency they … Continue reading →

Unpopular Boys Names May Lead to Criminal Activity

Two researchers in my own home state of Pennsylvania have found that there is more to a baby name than you might think. The two researchers, David E. Kalist and Daniel Y. Lee conducted a study at Shippensburg University that took a look at common and uncommon boys names and found a link between uncommon names and breaking the law. First, they compiled a list of names of boys that they called juvenile delinquents as well as boys in the standard population. They then ranked these names based on popularity. So a name such as Michael, for example, would have … Continue reading →

Adoption of Adults

Did you know that it is legal in all 50 U.S. states for one adult to adopt another? I didn’t! The most common reasons given for adults legally adopting other adults are: to make official a long-standing parent-child relationship, and/or to ensure that the adults involved will inherit from each other. (The state of Illinois specifically notes that an adopted person does not inherit from the adoptive parents if he/she was over 18 when adopted and had never resided with the adoptive parents before turning 18. This refers to adoptive parents who die without a will; of course adoptive parents … Continue reading →