Video- Successful Strategies: Memory, Phonological Awareness and Beginning Phonics (Down Syndrome Research Foundation Canada) - TTAC Online

Whether you’re a teacher, specialist, or family member, this is a great way to support literacy development in meaningful ways.

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Reflections on a Dark and Dreary Day As we move from Sheila’s favorite month, October, and enter the month of November, I find myself reflecting on some of the lessons Sheila taught me.

Children as teachers? Children as leaders? Why not?

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When Does Self-Advocacy Begin? This first appeared in a local Down syndrome support group newsletter in October 1997.

Ready, set, go! Start laying the groundwork early for self-advocacy.
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Living with Medical Complexity is not for the Faint-hearted. There is a Substack called, Jenny’s Dying to Live.

School Nurses are seeing more children who are medically complex. What does living with or caregiving for this person mean?
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SHE AIN'T BROKE. . . (so quit trying to fix her!)

Combating ableism one step at a time. Deficit thinking never helped anyone.
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Why Start a newsletter called Hands on Nursing in a Germ Factory? I started this newsletter/blog/essay/article driven newsletter to provide information to both parents and nurses about raising children with disabilities.

I started this Substack over a year ago. This seemed like a good time to update what it is all about. I invite you to take a look.
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It's World Down Syndrome Day! Celebrate, Educate, Dance to the Music. Advocate, Celebrate, Dance to the Music

3.21 - Celebrating World Down Syndrome Day

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How Do I Tell You? More years than I care to divulge, I was invited speak to a group of interns, residents and teaching fellows in a local tertiary hospital’s OB/GYN department.

How do you share news that is challenging for any parent to hear? Is it possible to provide a soft landing?
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The Dark Side of Support Groups Why I Became a Support Group Dropout

When support groups work they are a good way to help someone through a rough patch. Sometimes it is important to reassess the need and possibly move on.

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Sheila's Talking, She's Really Talking Originally written for Down Syndrome newsletter April 1998

Once upon a time, I longed to hear Sheila talk. Finally, the miracle happened.
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A Family of Zebras “When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.” How many medical students have heard this saying?

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You Can’t Make this Stuff Up, Part 2 And now for your Public Service Announcement

Brrr, it's cold
Plus, there are more strange requests for school nurses that really have nothing to do with a nurse's scope of practice. However, many a mom would be able to relate to them!
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How Can We Live without Trust? Before me stands a wall with so many names.

Another daughter, another cardiologist, another health scare and weird dreams.

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I Have Stories to Tell One Year Substack Anniversary

It has been one year since I started writing on Substack. I am not in the same emotional space as I was a year ago. Come, celebrate with me and if you know anyone that could be helped by the posts I've written, please share this with them.
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BONDING IN CHALLENGING TIMES Initially written in October 1990 – reprinted from down syndrome/Aim High newsletter

The school nurse might be in an unique position where she can have a powerful, positive impact on a family thrown into turmoil.
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