Disability Dreams Group

Assistance for Children with Severe Disabilities
If you are a parent caring for a child with a severe disability, you may be able to receive some financial help.

The Assistance for Children with Severe Disabilities Program helps parents with some of the extra costs of caring for a child who has a severe disability.

Who can get help?

A parent or a legal guardian whose child:

is under 18 years of age,
lives at home,
and has a severe disability
may be eligible to receive help under this program depending on the family's income.

What the program pays for

Parents can get between $25 and $440 a month to help with costs, such as:

travel to doctors and hospitals
special shoes and clothes
parental relief
wheelchair repairs
assistive devices
hearing aids
hearing aid batteries
prescription drugs
dental care
eyeglasses.
How much a family receives will depend on:

the family's income
the severity of the disability
the kind of difficulties the child has when
walking
communicating
feeding himself
bathing himself
the extraordinary costs related to the disability.

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