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God Chooses a Mom for a Disabled Child by Erma Bombeck This year, nearly 100,000 women will become mothers of handicapped children. Did you ever wonder how mothers of handicapped children are chosen ? Somehow, I visualize God hovering over Earth selecting his instruments for propagation with great care and deliberation. http://www.down-syndrom.ch/Poem5.htm
Institute for the Study of the Neurologically Typical This site is an exercise in "putting the shoe on the other foot": it is a humorous look at the "normal" population using the language and categorical assumptions that researchers and clinicians all too often use when dealing with atypical populations such as the autism spectrum. It's all in fun, but it should open your eyes and challenge your assumptions too. http://isnt.autistics.org/
Poetry Humor and Articles of interest The Frramingham SEPAC put in their web site some wonderful articles for all parents to enjoy and learn from http://www.f-sepac.org/articles.html
Special Education Prayers For Friends of the Handicapped; Labeling; & Blessed are Friends of Exceptional Children http://smcdsb.on.ca/secondary/prayer/special%20ed.htm
To You, My Sisters by Maureen K. Higgins All of us have one thing in common. One day things were fine. We were pregnant, or we had just given birth, or we were nursing our newborn, or we were playing with our toddler. Yes, one minute everything was fine. Then, whether it happened in an instant, as it often does, or over the course of a few weeks or months, our entire lives changed. Something wasn't quite right. Then we found ourselves mothers of children with special needs. http://www.bridges4kids.org/Inspiration/story8-02-02.html
Welcome To Holland by Emily Perl Kingsley I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this...... http://www.journeyofhearts.org/jofh/kirstimd/holland.htm
What You Should Know About my Child by Marie Bristol Marie Bristol, Director of Family and Preschool Research and Services at the School of Medicine - University of North Carolina, at the NATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME CONGRESS' CONVENTION in October, 1989, gave this message to parents to relay to the "professionals" working with their children: http://www.oafccd.com/lanark/poems/know.htm