A good article appeared in the NY Times, ‘Just A Normal Girl’.

It tells the stories of developmentally disabled individuals, their families and college staff working to open college classrooms and campuses to cognitively disabled persons. The article is well done in that it doe’snt sugar coat the challenges involved.

Read a great article today at the DailyRecord.com website . What started out as a grassroots effort with 4 parents in one town in New Jersey is “now in demand statewide — for integrating children with special needs into their communities.”

“With persistence and creativity, these parents, all volunteers, have raised $180,000 since 2003 and created 32 recreation programs in Montville. Roughly 150 children with special needs, ages 3 to 18, from 27 area communities, have been given the chance to play sports, dabble in arts, go to the movies and have play dates with other children. And nearly 1,400 nondisabled children have been trained as mentors to work and play with their children.”

It’s great to come across these positive energy stories. Makes my day!

I found this informative web site blog today when they linked to us in a posting. It has some great resources on adoption. There is an entire section of the blog that covers Down syndrome and adoption. http://adoptionblogs.typepad.com/adoption/down_syndrome_adoption/index.html

It’s been a busy week for us. One new page was posted to the site that is a work in progress. It is a links page for resources on information related to down syndrome. If you would like to suggest a link please feel free to add a comment to the page or email us.

Coming up soon we will be receiving an assistive communication device for our son. The manufacturers representative will be meeting with us and the staff at school to introduce the device and provide some training. We’ll be sure to post our experiences here and look forward to hearing from others on the subject of communication and speech therapy.