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Category Archives: Families/Children
BT Digest
BT Digest is an online magazine for youths and families facing disabilities.
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Empowering Children with Disabilities
Strengthen and Make Whole the Body of Christ by Empowering Children With Disabilities
Can the church from the beginning of life be that place where justice is practiced, surrounding children with disabilities with the breadth and strength of such a network of support that it is simply empowering for life? I am convinced the answer is “yes.”
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Reaching an Autistic Teenager
“On a typical Monday morning at an atypical high school, teenage boys yanked open the glass doors to the First Baptist Church of Decatur, Ga. Half-awake, iPod wires curling from their ears, their backpacks unbuckled and their jeans baggy, the guys headed for the elevator. Arriving at Morning Meeting in the third-floor conference room, Stephen, his face hidden under long black bangs, dropped into a chair, sprawled across the table and went back to sleep. The Community School, or T.C.S., is a small private school for teenage boys with autism or related disorders. Sleep disturbances are common in this student body of 10, so a boy’s staggering need for sleep is respected. Nick Boswell, a tall fellow with thick sideburns, arrived and began his usual pacing along the windows that overlook the church parking lot and baseball diamond. Edwick, with spiky brown hair and a few black whiskers, tumbled backward with a splat into a beanbag chair on the floor.”
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Publication date October 17, 2008
Developmental Delay Resource
“New Developments: New Angles on Developmental Delays” is a newsletter published by Developmental Delay Resources, a resource network integrating conventional and holistic approaches.
Volume 14, Number 1, Fall, 2008 Newsletter Contents
Wisconsin Integrative Hyperbarics Center …….Page 1
Executive Director’s Column…………………………..Page 2
Today’s Warriors: Dan Millman and Jenny McCarthy
News and Comments………………………………………Page 3
Education…………………………………………………………Page 4
The Power of Silence in the Classroom
Diet………………………………………………………………….Page 5
Twinkie, Deconstructed
Motor………………………………………………………………Page 6
Spelling, Movement, and Vision
Nutrition………………………………………………………….Page 7
The Mighty Mitochondria Revisited
Upcoming Events…………………………………………….Page 8
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