Families of Special Needs Children

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Comment by Lisa Rupe on November 4, 2009 at 4:00pm

Hi - I'm new to this group. I have an 8 year old son with autism.
I firmly believe that autism is a medical diorder and needs to be treated as such. It has nothing to do with bad parenting and little to do with genetics. Our children need to stop being discriminated against in insurance coverage - their medical problems need to be addressed whether or not they open and close a drawer hundreds of times during a doctors office visit or not.
80% of the 600,000+ people with autism are under the age of 18. It will cost billions to care for these children unless we can help them improve their quality of life now.

Comment by Vicki Clevinger on September 30, 2009 at 12:52am

Susan B. Anthony List: Parents of Children with Disabilities Speak on Capitol Hill

Comment by Ginger Woodcock on September 27, 2009 at 10:57am

My biggest fear if this nobamacare goes through is for our youngest grandson. We are 57/60 and have had custody of our youngest grandson since he was 5months old. He was DX'd with Autism at 2 1/2. We put him in every type of therapy starting at age 8months because we knew something was going on.

He will soon be 4 and has gone from in home therapy 5 days a week with at least 2 therapists each visit, to school at age 3. So, this is his 2nd year in school. He is doing well and really moving ahead.

I have worked with him his every waking moment from the beginning. Of course he has always thought it was play time, and it has really worked. But, there is a long road ahead.

Last Jan, he was in the hospital with pmony and several other DX's. Doctor said we could lose him. So, now it is Autism, Asthma, Allergies and Orthodics to walk. All but the Asthma and daily oxygen therapy has been since 8 months.

With nobamacare, it is a very real concern that he would be denied care or be delayed, therefore causing his death.

This child is the closest thing to heaven as anyone on earth will find. He has none of the personality problems that they say you find in Autistic children. I am beginning to believe that those personalities are the non typical traits. Hopefully we can find a way to help these children and those with other disabilities.

Comment by Liberty Ross on September 19, 2009 at 8:15pm

Hi - just joined this group. In our extended family we have 1 adult child with autism and one elementary school child with cerebral palsy and autism.

My web site is www.libertyforged.com. I mention that because a new article was just posted about the Complete Lives System of President Obama's health advisor Ezekiel Emanuel. We go into detail about Emanuel's health rationing plan for the disabled and the aged. It's a fairly long article but researched back to the progressive eugenics movement in the US in the '20's. The information hit home at our house. Perhaps it may be of interest to you all.

Liberty

Comment by June D. on September 3, 2009 at 7:15am

Hey Laura and Welcome. I have an autistic 43 year old son, and he has made an impact on some people's lives. Several people have gone into special ed after they met him. I think they were leaning that way anyway, but he helped "clinch the deal" so to speak. So you are right about them being angels on earth.

Comment by Laura Vitera on September 2, 2009 at 10:46pm

Hey Everyone!
I am new to SGP and wanted to say hello :) I am excited to be on a site with other like-minded woman with strong conservative values and principals. I was especially excited to see this group in support of special needs children. I have a passion and love to support, and empower those with special needs and Obama and his "advisors" outlook on those that are "imperfect" is scary and disgusting. Through my work and personal life, I have learned more from those that people describe as "less valuable" and they are angels on earth.

God Bless!
Laura V

Comment by Laurel Guy on September 2, 2009 at 10:53am

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Subject: FW: If you have children in school or know people that have children in school have them read this...

Now we are indoctrinating our children!!!!!!!


PreK-6 Menu of Classroom Activities: President Obama’s Address to Students Across America

Produced by Teaching Ambassador Fellows, U.S. Department of Education

September 8, 2009



Before the Speech:

Teachers can build background knowledge about the President of the United States and his speech by reading books about presidents and Barack Obama and motivate students by asking the following questions:

Who is the President of the United States?

What do you think it takes to be President?

To whom do you think the President is going to be speaking?

Why do you think he wants to speak to you?

What do you think he will say to you?

Teachers can ask students to imagine being the President delivering a speech to all of the students in the United States. What would you tell students? What can students do to help in our schools? Teachers can chart ideas about what they would say.

Why is it important that we listen to the President and other elected officials, like the mayor, senators, members of congress, or the governor? Why is what they say important?

During the Speech:

As the President speaks, teachers can ask students to write down key ideas or phrases that are important or personally meaningful. Students could use a note-taking graphic organizer such as a Cluster Web, or students could record their thoughts on sticky notes. Younger children can draw pictures and write as appropriate. As students listen to the speech, they could think about the following:

What is the President trying to tell me?

What is the President asking me to do?

What new ideas and actions is the President challenging me to think about?

Students can record important parts of the speech where the President is asking them to do something. Students might think about: What specific job is he asking me to do? Is he asking anything of anyone else? Teachers? Principals? Parents? The American people?

Students can record any questions they have while he is speaking and then discuss them after the speech. Younger children may need to dictate their questions.

After the Speech:

Teachers could ask students to share the ideas they recorded, exchange sticky notes or stick notes on a butcher paper poster in the classroom to discuss main ideas from the speech, i.e. citizenship, personal responsibility, civic duty.

Students could discuss their responses to the following questions:

What do you think the President wants us to do?

Does the speech make you want to do anything?

Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us?

What would you like to tell the President?

Teachers could encourage students to participate in the Department of Education’s “I Am What I Learn” video contest. On September 8th the Department will invite K-12 students to submit a video no longer than 2 min, explaining why education is important and how their education will help them achieve their dreams. Teachers are welcome to incorporate the same or a similar video project into an assignment. More details will be released via HYPERLINK "http://www.ed.gov"www.ed.gov.

Extension of the Speech: Teachers can extend learning by having students

Create posters of their goals. Posters could be formatted in quadrants or puzzle pieces or trails marked with the labels: personal, academic, community, country. Each area could be labeled with three steps for achieving goals in those areas. It might make sense to focus on personal and academic so community and country goals come more readily.

Write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president. These would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to their goals.

Write goals on colored index cards or precut designs to post around the classroom.

Interview and share about their goals with one another to create a supportive community.

Participate in School wide incentive programs or contests for students who achieve their goals.

Write about their goals in a variety of genres, i.e. poems, songs, personal essays.

Create artistic projects based on the themes of their goals.

Graph student progress toward goals.



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Comment by Cynthia M on August 14, 2009 at 10:05am

545 vs 300,000,000
EVERY CITIZEN NEEDS TO READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT WHAT THIS JOURNALIST HAS SCRIPTED IN THIS MESSAGE. READ IT AND THEN REALLY THINK ABOUT OUR CURRENT POLITICAL DEBACLE.

Charley Reese has been a journalist for 49 years.

545 PEOPLE
By Charlie Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.

You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason.. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist pr! omises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red ..

If the Army &Marines are in IRAQ , it's because they want them in IRAQ

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

They, and they alone, have the power.

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.

Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.

What you do with this article now that you have read it.......... Is up to you.


This might be funny if it weren't so darned true.
Be sure to read all the way to the end:

Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table
At which he's fed.

Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.

Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for peanuts
Anyway!
Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.
Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.

Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.

Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.

Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.

When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore.
Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid.

Put these words
Upon his tomb,
Taxes drove me
to my doom...'

When he's gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge T ax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Sales Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Ser vice FeeTax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge=2 0Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY? Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, and our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
What in the hell happened? Can you spell 'politicians?'
And I still have to 'press 1' for English!?

I hope this goes around THE USA at least 100 times!!! YOU can help it get there!!!
GO AHEAD - - - BE AN AMERICAN!!!

Comment by JenniferW on August 11, 2009 at 7:39pm

At the risk of pimping my blog, today's post is about Eunice Kennedy Shriver who passed away yesterday. There was so much about her I didn't know. She really was a wonderful American woman.

Comment by Andi Blanton on August 11, 2009 at 12:14pm

Media Blitz Week


There is so much happening in the news today that it is easy to lose sight of the parental rights movement. That’s why we need your help to get the media to wake up to our cause.


So, this week’s action item is simply this: demand the media’s attention on behalf of the Parental Rights Amendment.

Here are some specific things you can do to accomplish this:

1. Call in to your favorite call-in show, and mention the Parental Rights Amendment and parentalrights.org. You don’t have to hijack the show – tie it in to the subject they’re talking about. It’ll be easier than you think!

2. Call or email the producer of your favorite show and urge them to cover this issue. Then, send us a note telling us who you contacted.

3. Write a letter to your editor. Now is a great time, with members of Congress home for the month.

4. Contact local news media. Contact a friend who writes for the paper or hosts a t.v. show, or take out an ad on your local public access station. Anything you can think of to get the word out.

5. Do it more than once. Take all week, and see how many papers, radio shows, or television programs you can get the word out on.

Here are a few of the news-worthy items you might want to mention:

1. The Parental Rights Amendment already has 114 cosponsors in the House – more than 12 cosponsors to every 1 supporting H.R. 3200, the Health Care bill!

2. All over the country this month, 112 visits are scheduled with other Congressmen and Senators being urged to cosponsor the Amendment.

3. ParentalRights.org is building a coalition with Tea Parties and other freedom-based organizations to mobilize for the protection of our American rights.

4. We are planning a major blitz during Constitution Week, Sept. 14-19, to urge Congress to support Parental Rights.

Don’t think you need to set aside whatever other battle you’re in to fight for parental rights. Those actively opposing the health care bill, for instance, can tie the two causes together. The Parental Rights Amendment would make any law unconstitutional that is unnecessarily family-intrusive by nature – the perfect cure to certain unwelcome provisions of the health care package.

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