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Students with Diabetes: Their Stories Read about the experiences children and MEDIA COVERAGE: Despite the advocacy of parents and health care experts, shortsighted school policies continue to endanger the health and safety of children with diabetes. MORE >>> Rather than treat a hypoglycemic 13-year-old, a school nurse instructed the child to call her mother for help. The mother, a surgical nurse, was forced to leave the hospital to drive to school to give her child a glucose tablet. MORE >>> One morning on the way to school, a 12-year-old child with diabetes began to vomit on the bus. The sick child, along with other children, alerted the bus driver. Rather than proceed to school with the child so his parents could be contacted, the driver evicted the child from the bus. MORE >>> Read about one Mom who fought to change the law and taught schools throughout her state how to manage the care of students with diabetes with common sense and dignity. MORE >>> Read about a class action suit filed on behalf of students with diabetes in California. A resolution announcement is expected Spring 2007. MORE >>> Students with Diabetes in Texas are Now Safer. MORE >>> In Your Backyard: On Diabetes and Disabilities Law. MORE >>> |
