September 26th: Blogging For Kids With Disabilities

~ Laura

We’re blogging about nothing but kids with disabilities today. Blog about it, and I will link to you. (Please e-mail me and the other bloggers in this group with the link.)

[UPDATE: This is my summary of yesterday’s event.

My two posts.

Sam Crane starts off the day talking about the money problem. Sam says, In school districts all around the country, SPED spending is increasing and it is taking funds away from regular ed, creating all sorts of bad feelings and underfunded programs all around. He argues that special education money should come from a different pot from regular education and the federal government should do a larger share.

Jeannette writes a lovely post about how she’s dealing with her the three month son’s deafness.

Liz Ditz is blogging her heart out about her pet topic, dyslexia.

Sarah Knipper Ramowski of the Human Services Research Institute points me to some excellent resources that are aimed at helping parents navigate the system. Thanks, Sarah!

Elisabeth Carnell writes about her beautiful daughter with ADHD.

Yay! I roped in Flea and she tells us about the wonders of Ritalin, moshing in the salad bar, and ham flavored jello.

Mrs. Coulter says that you never know if your child will become disabled, so it is in everyone’s interest to fund it properly. She also thinks that the federal government should play a larger role in order to divert the tug of war for limited resources between regular parents and the special education parents.

Lisa Fischler puts herself in the shoes of her students.

Ancarett’s fairy-daughter writes about being autistic and her love of garlic cheese bread.

Camera Obscura explains how a program called “First Steps” was so helpful for her autistic and how it is endangered of being cut by the state.

Liz from Blogging Baby writes about our project and her son with Asperger’s Syndrome.

Mrs. Darling writes a very emotional post about her daughter’s disabilities. Read with a tissue.

Kelly tells the story of her daughter, who has a rare form of epilepsy. This is her latest post about coming to terms with her daughter’s mental retardation.

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15 thoughts on “September 26th: Blogging For Kids With Disabilities”

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  7. Payin’ for it

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  9. Thanks for organizing this. I’ve found the posts on ADD/ADHD especially helpful – as a professor I run into students diagnosed with these disabilities fairly often, but I had no idea exactly what they entailed. This helps me a lot in thinking about how to work with these students. (Obviously there are many, many valuable things about these posts other than helping me be a better teacher, but I thought I’d at least mention that.)
    (I’d comment on the relevant posts, but I’m a rare lurker over at Flea’s blog, and can’t get comments to work on Elisabeth’s blog. So I thought I’d give you the credit instead. ;-D)

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  11. I came upon this a day late, and I am short on time. but I want to give you a blog entry I wrote back in February when the Governor of Missouri (not-so-affectionately known as “Baby Gov” for both his age and inexperience) decided to cut funding for a program known as First Steps, which handles special-needs children before they are old enough to be serviced by their school district.

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  14. I wish all children with disabilities would have a Camping Unlimited program in their lives. This great program in N.Califoria is open to all children with disablilities. They offer year-round weekend trips and wonderful summer camp program.

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