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Phaedrine wrote:
It was not my intent to be rude and I admire your dedication. But I really wondered which settings were failing to provide adequate services and giving you so little support. Educational, hospital and institutional settings should all have occupational therapists, skilled in sensory-motor integration, who would know exactly what works best with children with sensory deficits. Pursuant to the IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) in the US, the children you describe would almost certainly be eligible for Early Childhood programs and, in some States, Infant and Toddler programs. Such programs should have the types of therapies you describe as related services and, in the early years, are usually implemented with parental participation. In addition to humanistic concerns, we've known for decades that appropriate early therapeutic and educational services almost always mitigate the need for later, incredibly expensive (as well as dehumanizing) institutionalization for almost all but a fraction of a percent of persons with disabilities. Others here have given you the information you require so I will merely say that it really angers me that in this day of alleged "no child left behind", we are finding a dramatic increase in reliance on people of good will such as you (charity) instead of providing what the law required as early as 1975. And at the same time that some States are outlawing abortion or even actively discussing outlawing birth control, women who give birth to damaged babies are being given less and less help. No I am not promoting abortion--- just commenting on the irony of the situation. The measure of a society is how it treats its old and disabled. It's a damn shame, Cindy, you can't get the support you and your young charges require. Our leadership is failing the more vulnerable among us. Phae Happens here as well... They shut all the 'hospitals' and 'Homes' for such children in favour of 'care in the community'. Hmph! With the lack of support now available, it's more a case of 'don't care in the community'. We'll be going back to exhibiting them in freak shows next... Cynical? Moi? in my best pretentious Miss Piggy tones -- Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.katedicey.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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Phaedrine wrote:
It was not my intent to be rude and I admire your dedication. But I really wondered which settings were failing to provide adequate services and giving you so little support. Educational, hospital and institutional settings should all have occupational therapists, skilled in sensory-motor integration, who would know exactly what works best with children with sensory deficits. Pursuant to the IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) in the US, the children you describe would almost certainly be eligible for Early Childhood programs and, in some States, Infant and Toddler programs. Such programs should have the types of therapies you describe as related services and, in the early years, are usually implemented with parental participation. In addition to humanistic concerns, we've known for decades that appropriate early therapeutic and educational services almost always mitigate the need for later, incredibly expensive (as well as dehumanizing) institutionalization for almost all but a fraction of a percent of persons with disabilities. Others here have given you the information you require so I will merely say that it really angers me that in this day of alleged "no child left behind", we are finding a dramatic increase in reliance on people of good will such as you (charity) instead of providing what the law required as early as 1975. And at the same time that some States are outlawing abortion or even actively discussing outlawing birth control, women who give birth to damaged babies are being given less and less help. No I am not promoting abortion--- just commenting on the irony of the situation. The measure of a society is how it treats its old and disabled. It's a damn shame, Cindy, you can't get the support you and your young charges require. Our leadership is failing the more vulnerable among us. Phae Yes, it's so much more important to build a fence the length of our borders, and to depose certain dictators who dared to threaten one's daddy. -- Joanne stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/ http://stores.ebay.com/Sound-FuryRecords |
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In article , Pogonip
wrote: Phaedrine wrote: [...] It's a damn shame, Cindy, you can't get the support you and your young charges require. Our leadership is failing the more vulnerable among us. Yes, it's so much more important to build a fence the length of our borders, and to depose certain dictators who dared to threaten one's daddy. Exactly! -- I fear me you but warm the starved snake, Who, cherished in your breasts, will sting your hearts. (Henry VI, Shakespeare) |
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Kate Dicey wrote: Happens here as well... They shut all the 'hospitals' and 'Homes' for such children in favour of 'care in the community'. Hmph! With the lack of support now available, it's more a case of 'don't care in the community'. We'll be going back to exhibiting them in freak shows next... I am sorry to hear that the same thing is happing across the pond. It's really getting to be Life Among the Savages.... OB-SEW: Many times when I install a centered zipper in the back of a knit top, I run the zipper stitching lines all the way down to the hemline for a little design statement. When I do this, I go back to mark the end of the zipper, separately, with a V or a very small bar tack. -- I fear me you but warm the starved snake, Who, cherished in your breasts, will sting your hearts. (Henry VI, Shakespeare) |
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I admire all that you are doing to help this person, as for 13 years I
worked with mentally challenged adults. Sometime I see a wheelchair at Goodwill. Maybe her family could afford to get one there. You might could explain the situation to the manager and ask her to call when a wheelchair comes in. HTH Barbara in SC She is bed bound as we are fighting with the state/federal agencies to get her a wheelchair , |
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