After swimming competitively for only 18 months Jessica Long already held five national records. In 2007 she became the first Paralympic Athlete to win the Sullivan Award, an award given to the best American athlete in amateur sports. And, as she prepares for the 2008 Olympics she trains with and beats the best American swimmers […]
A child with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is much like that of an intoxicated person. Give a “normal” child a few drinks and you might have that child acting like mine on a “normal” day.
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Before AJ began taking Clonidine to help him sleep and before we even tried Melatonin we purchased a weighted blanket from Southpaw Enterprises. We can’t live without it in our home. We use it every night, on long car trips, and even when he needs to calm down in the afternoons.
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I’ve got a post up over at Chicago Moms Blog about our Birthday Party at the Hotel Water Park. Check out the lessons I still continue to learn as a parent.
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While parents battle autism in the classroom this week in Port St. Lucie adopted children are fighting to be freed of their adoptive mother.
Judith Leekin has admitted to using false name (don’t know how the heck she did that!) to adopt 11 disabled children and keeping them as prisoners while she qualified for adoption subsidies.
She […]
The Federation for Children with Special Needs has released their annual Summer Program Brochure! Packed full of every state’s summer programs you can purchase this brochure in a PDF file or in soft cover at the Federation for Children with Special Needs site.
Parents say this booklet is THE go to guide for summer!
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