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Using The Internet - A Guide For Parents Of Children With Disabilities Or Chronic Health Conditions
By: Renata Bursten, Dragonfly Staff
Family Village Guide to the Internet offers several articles that help parents begin the process of locating information and resources online.
If you ever feel lost at sea finding resources specific to your needs, then help is at hand. Linda Rowley & Ernie Colantonio of the Family Village Project at the Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin - Madison have created three very fine documents to help.
The Basics,"An Introduction to the Internet" which includes a list of common disability and health acronyms.
,Communicating On-Line with Others,Information on Internet Mailing Lists, Usenet Newsgroups, IRC, Web Boards, and Parent-to-Parent Matching Programs.
Finding Information,General Search Engines, Special Search Engines, On-Line Periodicals, Data Bases and Web Sites that have information of interest to parents of children with special health care needs.
Happy surfing!
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Children with Special Needs and Good Eating Habits
Teaching children with special needs good eating and drinking skills is important to do from the start - a bad habit can be very hard to break! To teach putting the cup back at the correct place on the table just put the Cup Detector where you want the cup to go and watch children eagerly put their cup there to get the reward of lights and music. This can easily be taken to school or daycare to help teach the skill across many settings.