What kind of efforts could we make to help families caring for children with disabilities?

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The first steps to help families caring for children with disabilities should be to remove the barriers for care and cover basic medical needs. Families need primary care physicians, not just visits to the emergency department. Also, potentially needed is more access to prenatal care for high-risk populations, particularly for teen mothers. We need genetic testing, ultrasounds, and vitamins. Another potential need is for better communication, including multilingual translations of information. It is also important to create centralized sources of reliable information that families can access via the Internet and sharing information on scientific breakthroughs that might help minimize the debilitating effect of a child's disabilities. Parent resource groups could be good partners in such efforts.