Looking for somewhere good to surf? Stop by this Site of the Day listing for a daily destination of interest to parents of children with special needs. Images indicate the topic under which the site falls. Listed here are the sites or pages featured each day in August, 2008. For more sites, visit the index.
21. National Resource Center for Paraprofessionals
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Wondering about the qualifications of that aide who helps your child? Or wondering if you could be one yourself? This resource center has news, articles, message boards, and other information to answer your questions.
22. Fun Things to Do
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Your Saturday super-sized listing of amusements, including a family activity, a site for the kids, a shopping site, a site offering humor or inspiration about parenting children with special needs, and a site that's just silly or fun.
23. Weekly Round-Up
Catch up with everything you missed this week on the About.com Parenting Special Needs site.24. Interfaith Disability Connection
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"Interfaith Disability Connection educates and engages faith communities in cultivating mutually beneficial relationships with people with disabilities." There are materials here for people with disabilities, their families, and their congregations.
25. Kids With Food Allergies Recipe Showdown Fundraiser
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Looking for an excuse to party? Help KFA with its Recipe Showdown by cooking some great allergy-safe dishes and letting your friends be the judges. If you raise some funds for the cause, there may be a prize in it for you, too.
26. NAMI StigmaBusters
"NAMI StigmaBusters is a network of dedicated advocates across the country and around the world who seek to fight inaccurate and hurtful representations of mental illness." From the National Alliance on Mental Illness site, you can read alerts about stereotypical images in movies, TV, or other media; sign up to get those alerts by e-mail; and learn how to report stigma yourself.27. Reece's Rainbow
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The International Down Syndrome Orphan Ministry seeks parents to adopt waiting children with Down syndrome, and also offers lots of ways to help these children short of offering your home, including sponsorships, donations, and T-shirts.
28. JDRF Children's Congress 2009 Application
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"Any child with type 1 diabetes that has not yet been a delegate and that will be between the ages of 4 and 17 on June 21, 2009, is eligible to apply" to participate in the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's next Children's Congress, to be held June 21-24, 2009, in Washington, D.C. The site offers both online and downloadable applications, as well as a FAQ.
29. Fun Things to Do
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Your Saturday super-sized listing of amusements, including a family activity, a site for the kids, a shopping site, a site offering humor or inspiration about parenting children with special needs, and a site that's just silly or fun.
30. Let's Play - A Guide to Toys for Children With Special Needs
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Carefully evaluated to be appropriate for children with all types of special needs and interests, and personally tested by over 100 young "toy experts," the toys in this guide are classified by impairment and commented on by parents and teachers who helped with the testing.
