Pennies for Patients 2020
Way to go, Z and E! Donating with their @pilotpointisd classes for @penniesforpatients ❤️ We @rebeccalansfordjohnson @learn_from_sam are proud of you! #penniesforpatients...
Autism, Mental Health, and IDD Therapy and Counseling Resources
SPECTRUM FAMILY THERAPY (469) 209-1111 Myra M. Salcedo-Hugghins
DISABILITY RIGHTS OF NORTH TEXAS
TEXAS CENTER FOR DISABILITY STUDIES ...
How I Treat Those Who are Unable To Care For Themselves
How we treat and care for the disabled, elderly - those in need - reveals much about who we are. You don’t have to be an adoptive parent, guardian or care giver to show how much you care. Maybe you are an employer of a special needs parent. A friend or family member. A passer by on the street or at the store. Consideration, acknowledgment, concern, prayer, encouragement, kind words - they make a daily difference. ❤️ Everyone can choose to do something every day.
Matthew 25:35-40 King James Version (KJV)
35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
38 When saw we...
Psychiatric Disorders and Intellectual Disability Diagnosis
“The prevalence of psychiatric disorders is higher in patients with ID. And psychiatric disorders in this population are typically more severe and more difficult to diagnose than in the general population; the degree of disability varies greatly."
Read the article...
Life Skills Checklist for Special Needs Teens and Young Adults
This is a list we started working on for all of our kids to set goals for attempting to learn these life skills. Of course each individual living with special needs has different capacities and levels of comprehension. Our special needs son will need help in many areas to achieve this, so in some ways it's a list for us now - caregivers in the future.
Maintain relationships - faith in God, home, church, family, friends, co-workers, community
Maintain good hygiene
Sexual health
Caring for clothes - what you wear (washing, drying, ironing, storing, organizing)
Using technology for communication (smartphone, email, tablets, desktops)
Tie a necktie
Self protection (call for help, hand-to-hand, weapon safety)
Vaccinations
House cleaning, maintenance and organization
House emergency prep
Kitchen use
Technology maintainence
Car maintainence
Auto emergency prep
Personal finance management (accounts, investing, saving, taxes, budgeting, credit score, protection)
Personal insurances
Personal document management (certificates, passport, records, social security)
Career and Work (interviews, job search)
Life...
Context of Play
When our son was diagnosed with autism and behavior & intellectual challenges several years ago, one of the main points the doctor (who had 20+ years experience of working with children) made to us was that everything we wanted our son to truly and meaningfully understand should be wrapped in the context of “play”.
That advice has proved consistently true as our son has grown. Successful communication with a special needs child, preteen, teen, young adult, or adult who deals with autism and behavior & intellectual challenges is naturally and sincerely playful. It receives the most notable response.
I believe it makes the strongest connections and gains trust with the child you love and you want he or she to know that you love them....
Benjamin Franklin – We Have an Old Mother
We Have An Old Mother
By Benjamin Franklin
We have an old mother that
Peevish is grown
She snubs us like children that
Scare walk alone
She forgets we're grown up and
Have sense of our own
Which nobody can deny, deny
Which nobody can deny.
If we don't obey orders,
Whatever the case;
She frowns, and she chides
And she loses all patience
And sometimes she hits us
A slap in the fact
Which nobody can deny, deny
Which nobody can deny.
Her orders so odd are,
We often suspect
That age has impaired
Her sound intellect
But still an old mother
Should have some respect
Which nobody can deny, deny
Which nobody can deny.
We'll join in her lawsuits
To baffle all those
Who, to get wheat she has,
Will be often her foes;
But we know it must all be
Our own, when she goes.
Which nobody can deny, deny
Which nobody can deny....
Right to Rebel
The idea that a body of people who know nothing about common people, who see nothing of the misery that their decisions will inflict on us, have given themselves the right to command our lives and our property at all times in all cases whatsoever - this is the notion of thieves.
Common men and women thirst for liberty....
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Introduction to the Third Edition
Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. As a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling the right of it in question (and in Matters too which might never have been thought of, had not the Sufferers been aggravated into the inquiry) and as the King of England hath undertaken in his OWN RIGHT, to support the Parliament in what he calls THEIRS, and as the good people of this country are grievously oppressed by the combination, they have an undoubted privilege to inquire into the pretensions of both, and equally to reject the usurpation of either. In the following sheets,...
Virtual Reality to Raise Social Awareness
Check out these examples of how virtual reality (VR) video and technology is being used to help raise social awareness for their causes. VR offers a deeper experience for us to better see and understand the environments and situations taking place in other parts of the world.
Project Literacy - M is for Malnutrition
Step into Terri's life, and the life of 34 million adults in the U.S. who are unable to accomplish everyday tasks due to illiteracy.
Vrse.works - Waves of Grace
Liberia has endured the largest Ebola outbreak in history. As communities rebuild, one woman seeks healing through faith. This is the story of Decontee Davis, an Ebola survivor who uses her immunity to care for orphaned children in her village.
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