The goal of Developmental Delay Resources (DDR) is to integrate conventional and wholistic approaches to learning and behavioral problems. The network hopes to meet the needs of children with developmental delays in sensory, motor, language, social a
nd emotional areas.
Visit www.devdelay.org.
Below please find excerpts from Timothy Shriver to the Special Olympics movement is with a heavy heart that I write to let you know that my mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, passed away early this morning [August 11, 2009].
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The AJIDD is targeted for researchers, clinicians, practitioners, students, and other professionals in intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Read more about the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (aaidd) at www.aaidd.allenpress.com/.
Written by Barbara J. Newman
This book gives teachers practical tips for helping students welcome kids who have disabilities into their classes at church or at school.
Written by Barbara J. Newman
This unique resource will help your church to embrace people with autism into the full life of your congregation.
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Visit http://www.prayingwithLior.co/clergy.html for reviews of this DVD about an inclusive community and the religious coming of age of a young man with Down’s syndrome.
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“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.”
Read the full article by Melissa Fay Greene at www.nytimes.com, it is necessary to register (free) on www.nytimes.com.
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Publication date October 17, 2008