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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

The post i did not want to write

I had ment to write the 15 ways to explain disability and blog tomorrow. It was all set i was going to eat dinner and do start homework .

Then I cheaked Facebook
And found out that Steve Jobs is dead

. Steve the one who engeered a great learning tool and favoite thing in the whole wide world my apple laptop that I am writeing on right on. I am going to miss him and his work. Then there was Aladdin where I sat near him because his son was in the play and at the same school as book gal. He is my age 20 where he needs his dad to help him out like my dad helped My Big Bro. Rest in peace Steve Jobs you will be missed

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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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

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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Monday, October 3, 2011

Great young man

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Sunday, October 2, 2011

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

Saturday, October 1, 2011

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