Soccer

  My  AYSO  picture  from  eighth grade Fall 2005

  Today    had soccer practice and we  did  goal keeping. I  was  pretty  good  on the ground.   Just  call me   steel wall.

  Also did u know the us Para Olympics     has a  soccer  team  for males  with Cerebral Palsy 

Got my Statistics mid tearm back today and I Got

  My  tag line is     not only am i  in Statistics  but I am  thriving in it. What a great way to start my week.

Thats my Homework

    Today  I spent  the day  doing homework  by myself.    I have been doing homework on my own since fourth grade.
    In  the fourth grade    I had a teacher   lets  call her   Ms. Abilities.     She was a teacher  that everyone wanted to have and today  she now teaches as a  advanced teacher for  fourth and fifth grade.      The  year  was  2001-2002 and  she  taught  fourth grade.     I was  in a class with a lot  smart   kids.    That was the  year   I tuned  ten which  meant that  in  Ms. Abilities  eyes    i  was  ready to do  homework. Oh   I  tried   getting out  of  this arrangement with her and my  parents  but  in the end  I did my English,  Science,  History  homework   on my  own, math and spelling words  were  the  area  I struggled the most so I  got help with that,  because   in  Ms. Abilities eyes I was  one  of  the "smart" kids  as well.   Since  fourth  grade  i have been doing my homework myself  since  fourth  grade and   now  I am in college.     Can you imagine  me  doing homework with my parents, they could in theory,  now  i do not  think so. Thanks  Ms. Abilities  for    making me do my own  homework  by myself. 

 

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in case you missed it

  First Friday  of   31 for 21 2011  Here is what you  missed   (or read  but did not comment on hint  hint hint )

    Monday:  Great Young  Man:  He   and   I are now  face book friends

   Tuesday:    Tale  of two  twins : part one     part  two comes  next week

 Wednesday :  Ways to  talk to other kids  about  a child with disabilities     This  is   what  I  am post proud of this  week.

  Thursday:     A  little home  video    

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Ways to talk to other childeren about a child with disablites

     So today  I came home from school and  caught up with  the  Bravermen family   from the NBC show  Parenthood.  This is a really good  show  but  last  nights episode   raised some  questions.  In the  show    Max, a boy with Asperger's Syndrome, wants  his  cousin  Jabber to sit with him every day during lunch.  Jabber did not want to sit with him and tried to talk to his parents about it.  His dad  told   Jabber  some  well  intention  information about his cousin   Max but  it  went all wrong and  the two boys ended up getting into a fight.  That got me thinking.     With so many kids with disabilities being  include  in stuff like scouts and school  and  (insert  typical  kid activities here)   kids will have questions  and that is  great as long as  the adult has  a proper answer  Here is my guidelines  on explaining a child's disability to other  kids. For this  propose  I am going to  relate it  to group setting.

 1 Don't keep  your kids  disability  information   from them.  This  is not a good  idea  if you want other kids to know about  your child's   special need  then  it makes  sense that the  child in question knows  what his or her disability is.  The first time your child/ student here's about the disability should not be when the other kids   are also finding out.


2   Find a time, sooner rather than later, to   talk to the group.    Talk to  the necessary people to make this happened pick  a time and a date that works well for  both parties.  


3Get the child in question involved  with the preparation as much as possible.    Make a poster   have them  draw on it  or   have them  wear their  favorite  outfit.   make it  fun for them.




 4 Ask the child   if they want  to be present when the information is being present  let them  make the choice.


5   Find a way that is age  appointee.   Some  disabilities have  children's book geared  towards the  specific disability.


 6   Whatever  the way you chose on in step four  practice  it     If it is a book  practice reading it out loud  try to  anticipate any questions the kids might have so  you can   plan an answers


7   When talking with the kids  start out on a positive  note   continue it though  the talk    Avoid using words  like  'broken, damaged, problems, or anything that give a connotation that it needs to be fix.   Most disabilities can not be fixed nor is that a bad thing.


8  Read a book/ talk about the disabilities  Encourage  everyone  to  listen and try and  engage those who are not. Also if the kids start laughing at a unapproved point   ask them why disabilities are not   good  reasons to laugh at someone else.


9    Talk about all the things the child likes   or elements of themselves  that  pertain to being a child. What  is there favorite toy, color, food, etc


10  Stress that even though  disabilities make it harder for someone to do things    they are  imposable. They have gifts and talents  just like the others in the group.


11 Use   respectful language.  Depending on the kids   age  have them sign the  R word pledge. Do this  weather or not the child in question has a  Intellectual disability. Tell  little ones about that  bad word.   It will help  make a world   a  better place to be .


12 Have hands on activities.  Chubby Bunny  is a great  game  for speech impairments.    Have kids  try using a  wheelchair.  Kids, especially  young ones, like   interactive activities.


13  Leave  time for questions.   In general all  questions should be answer but  if some are to personal   say so.  Respect the child's  personality.




14 Wrap it up .  Have  the group of kids   repeat back to you some facts  they know.  In soccer we do  this  and it helps  us  remember what we were learning.


15  Note that the  role  of  advocating  should be for the child with the disability to  be able to  speak up for themselves. The older  the kid is  the more   of this they should do


  Anything I missed  please comment below




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A Tale of Twins : part one

 

Once upon a  time  there were twin  girls , Anna andAmanda.   There parents  wanted  both kids to learn to berespectful. So  once they were old enough to talk they learned theimportance of good  manners   sharing and not fighting. Thissevered them  well and they were  successful in school  went tocollage and got married.  

             Bothtwins  wanted  kids and there wish was granted.     Anna  had two kids, Billand Patrick,     Amanda  had    three kids  Jasper, Jed  and Jada.    Amanda  had wonderful kids just like hersister.  but something was  different about twin b   onlygirl  she  had  special needs.    Amanda and herhusband , Ben, were fine  with the fact that  there  girl was a little different  and  both of them became very involved in  the special needs community.  

              Amanda'sboy's  went to their neighborhood school they loved  it and got involvedin after school activates.    The parents  were veryhappy  with the school there kids attended   so as   their little  girl, lets call    turned  five they wanted her to go  to thesame school that her brothers went  to.    The school did not want her.   They  told   Amanda and herhusband that  Jada would have to goon a bus  to get to school on the other side of town.    Amanda, who had been taught not to fight, agreed and so  when fall rolledaround  Jada got on that  busand went to the other side of town.      Jade  hadsome commutation disabilities so  Amanda   sent some  commutation icons  to  theschool.      As Halloween approached    Amanda decide  to  volunteer in  Jada class for   the Halloween party.    What she saw  wasscary, and I do not mean the other  children's costumes. She saw walls with art work  without her child’s name  she saw  Jada   in the just sitting there. When    the womenasked where her daughter's artwork was the teacher told her that Jada couldnot  do  it  so she did not  have to.     Amanda asked  if  Jada  was learning how to read  and the teacher laughed in herface   and  told her that  Jada  would not be able toread  even though   in preschool Jada could   recognize the letters.

    To Be Continued 

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Great young man

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Stressful Sunday and imput on what u want to read

 Hay guys   today is stressful Sunday because i  have an essay due  and a mid term  I will talk about    more about school this month  but   I was   wondering what would u  like to read about 

That time again

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  Time  for   31 for 21    for down syndome/ disablity Awarness  month. This  month i will do my best to  post every day in october. I have lots of    post  about.  I hope to be going to a concert  for people with CP  and  other stuff..

 I  kicked off  the month by going to the   Big wave harvest festival.  Big Wave  is a housing project   that  is trying to  go up in half moon bay.     This  year both of my parents went  and we  won  big time.

  We  won  a  gift basket gift cards  a  cake   and   four  tickets to the happiest place on earth Disneyland!!!!! I was  soo  excited.   The tickets  were from a silent action which  I did not  know that my mom  bid on it. When  they called  us  as we were heading home  well  I was   very  happy.  Pictures coming shortly 
   here is  the   video about  The big  wave project  see if you can find me