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 generally indicate the topic under which the site falls. Listed here are the sites or pages featured each day in October, 2008. For more sites, visit the index.
21. FASD Quilt
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The 25 "quilt squares" here -- each adorned with facts and figures on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder -- are appropriate for printing out and using in informational displays. Or just read through them, and learn more about this devastating and entirely preventable disability.
20. ARKive Education
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If you're always looking for educational materials to share with your child, ARKive Education offers free resources on science and geography that may be of interest. On the site, you'll find downloadable PowerPoint presentations and videos for different age groups, as well as educational games to play online.
19. Weekly Round-Up
Catch up with everything you missed this week on the About.com Parenting Special Needs site.18. 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.
17. 2009 Gluten-Free Kids Calendar Contest
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Children ages 3-11 are invited to draw their favorite gluten-free food, write a small story about their gluten-free experience, and submit them for possible publication on a 2009 calendar. From the site, you can get more information about how to help your child enter the contest.
16. National Family Caregivers Month
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It's coming in November 2008, and this site from the National Family Caregivers Association can help you get ready for it by alerting the media, planning events, ordering materials, and participating in educational sessions.
15. Dental Care for Children With Special Needs
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The Humanitarian Foundation helps to pay for dental care for children with cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, mental retardation, and organ transplants. From the site, you can find out what coverage is available and how you can either get assistance or make a donation.
14. BeFreeForMe
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"BeFreeForMe.com is the first and only web site to offer coupons, samples and sharing to gluten and food allergy-free consumers." In addition to signing up for those freebies and discounts, you can search for allergy-specific recipes and articles and follow a blog on the subject of coupons and restricted diets.
13. March of Dimes Prematurity Awareness Petition
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Add your name to the March of Dimes' petition to "urge the federal government to increase support for prematurity-related research and data collection as recommended by the Institute of Medicine and the Surgeon General’s Conference on the Prevention of Preterm Birth, to: (a) identify the causes of premature birth; (b) test strategies for prevention; (c) improve the care, treatment and outcomes of preterm infants; (d) and better define and track the problem of premature birth."
