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.
1. 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.
2. Weekly Round-Up
Catch up with everything you missed this week on the About.com Parenting Special Needs site.3. We Cue!
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Curious about cued speech? This blog, written by people who use cued speech or facilitate it, can give you answers from all sorts of angles.
4. Maternal and Child Health Library
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A gathering of databases to help you help your child, including information on special-education services, finding a pediatrician, and Medicaid coordination.
5. Early Support
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"Early Support is the Government programme to achieve better co-ordinated, family focused services for young disabled children and their families. It's a national programme that is being introduced and used in local authorities, hospitals and community-based health services across England." Even if you're not in England, there are resources on the site that can be downloaded by anybody anywhere.
6. The "R" Word Campaign
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If you're concerned with the use of the word "retard" in general, or in the movie Tropic Thunder in particular, now may be a good time to check out this campaign and add one of its buttons to your blog or website to spread the word that the "r" word hurts.
7. Change for the Children Foundation
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Current teen heartthrobs The Jonas Brothers are the swooned-over faces behind this charitable endeavor, which seeks to give kids a chance to help other kids by donating to one of five chosen causes. Two of those charities deal with diabetes, and youngest brother Nick writes on the site about his experience living with Type 1 diabetes.
8. 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.
9. Weekly Round-Up
Catch up with everything you missed this week on the About.com Parenting Special Needs site.10. Doctor Rules
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About.com's Patient Empowerment guide linked to this list the other day, and I thought it was worth Site of the Day honors. Written by a doctor, it addresses many points we've ranted about among ourselves, and does so with a clear head and good sense. Mail a copy anonymously to your own doctor.
