We're now in the last week of the nomination phase for the 2012 Readers' Choice Awards. You have until next Wednesday, February 15, Valentine Recovery Day, to help me pick this year's finalists by nominating your favorites in eight categories, nominating them again, and urging others to nominate them. The more nominations a resource has, the more likely it will be selected to go to the next round.
This year, I added a question on the nomination ballot asking you why the blog, book, app, show, community, or regional resource you're nominating deserves an award, and I've loved reading your comments so much that I wanted to share them. In the spirit of using the Readers' Choice Awards as a way to shine a spotlight on and give some love to as many great special-needs resources as possible, I'm posting running lists of nominees so you can see what people are honoring and why. Though not all of these honorees will make it to the finals, they are deserving of recognition. See what your fellow readers have been recommending for:
- Favorite Special-Needs Parenting Blog
- Favorite Special-Needs Online Community
- Favorite New Special-Needs Parenting Book
- Favorite New Special-Needs Memoir
- Favorite New Special-Needs Children's Book
- Favorite Special-Needs TV Show
- Favorite Special-Needs App
- Favorite Special-Needs Regional Resource
Look over the current nominations and either give more support to the ones you love or make some new nominations for your favorites. I'll keep updating the list between now and next Wednesday. Thanks so much for helping me find and feature these great resources for families of children with special needs.
(Note: If you don't see something you've nominated on these lists, I've either moved it to another category, disqualified it for not fitting any category -- for example, a book that was not published in 2011 or a blog that is not specifically special-needs -- or been unable to find information about it on the Internet. If you re-nominate, please be sure to check the spelling and provide as much information as possible so I can track the resource down and include it.)