Here's the latest article from the Special Needs Children site at BellaOnline.com.

Adaptive Classes and Childhood Disability
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art68462.asp
Adaptive classes for students with IEPs may be helpful, effective, and enjoyable places. But it is often better for exceptional children to grow up included with mainstream peers, who also benefit from their presence and the accommodations they bring to classrooms and playgrounds - and eventually to all their adult lives.
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art68462.asp

Inclusion can and should happen everywhere in a child's life ~ it works well because mainstream kids crave inclusion, congeniality and friendship. Sometimes taking a break from one struggle to create relationships and opportunities elsewhere will refresh us so we can start again with a new perspective or support to find success in the original situation. Remember to write into your schedule some 'us' time for pure child-parent/parent-child relationship fun that disregards labels, experts and research. And please find a few minutes to laugh or cry with a friend when the smallest straw weighs heavily on the camel's back.

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Peer Mentoring Programs and Childhood Disability
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art61295.asp

Recess Skills for Children with Special Needs
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art432.asp

Music Education and Music Therapy
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art46397.asp

Literacy Skill Development - Teens with Autism or Down Syndrome http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art57331.asp

Teaching Handwriting to Children
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art51022.asp

Kindergarten Transition
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art49718.asp

School Bus Rides
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art45298.asp

Transition to Preschool from Early Intervention
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art49696.asp

Back to School with Down Syndrome
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art63002.asp

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Looking for specific items to help at home or away?

Recent requests and suggestions:

Extra wide yoga mats for babies, toddlers and older kids on the floor: http://tinyurl.com/36wYogaMat

Crib transition or travel: Bolster Bumpered Bed Sheet http://tinyurl.com/BlstrBmprSheet

Foam Guard Rails
http://tinyurl.com/Mgc-BmprBdRl

Ultimate Guide to Sensory Processing in Children:
Easy, Everyday Solutions
http://tinyurl.com/GdSnsryProcSol

Communication Partners by Dr James D MacDonald
http://tinyurl.com/DrJMConvDSAut

Books on Communication & Speech by Libby Kumin http://tinyurl.com/LKuminSpchComDS -
Babies, Children, Teens & Adults w Down Syndrome
and other late talkers

Give Him the Whale! 20 Ways to Use Fascinations,
Areas of Expertise, & Strengths to
Support Students w Autism and Other
Developmental Disabilities
http://tinyurl.com/JstGvHmWhlPK

Pedro's Whale
http://tinyurl.com/PdrWhlChBkAut

Time to Sing and
Speechercise Music CDs for kids with apraxia,
speech delays or articulation problems
http://tinyurl.com/Tm2SngSpchrsz

Sarah Palin: Pastor Jones, Koran Burning
Insensitive, Unnecessary
http://is.gd/f1si7
America by Heart:
http://tinyurl.com/AmHrtSPalin

Our Time 2 Sing CD
music w/ updated arrangements, peppy, fun, but
enable kids w apraxia to sing along
http://tinyurl.com/2d7xgpf

New iPod Touch to feature cameras
http://tinyurl.com/OldiPodTouchSNC
Available soon from $229:
http://bit.ly/9heBiE

Loving Life: http://bit.ly/aihc8H
Toddler w Down syndrome, family come through battle with cancer

Sensory Processing Disorder in Children http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art960.asp

Raising a Sensory Smart Child - Review http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art57603.asp

Assistive Listening Devices for the Classroom - http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art62237.asp

Anxiety and Childhood Disability http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art59924.asp

Selective Mutism and Shyness
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art55943.asp

IEP Goals for Children with Special Needs
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art4330.asp

Communication Partners
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art65818.asp

Person Centered Planning - Special Needs Children
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art53731.asp

Elementary School Transition
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art50637.asp

Teaching math skills to children with special needs
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art38411.asp

Early Intervention for Developmental Delays
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art35443.asp

High School Transition and Graduation Options
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art63367.asp

Back to School with Celiac Disease
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art52323.asp

Transition to Preschool from Early Intervention
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art49696.asp

Private Schools and Children with Special Needs
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art52889.asp

Clothing Modifications and Childhood Disability
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art68186.asp

Advocating in Multicultural Communities - http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art11304.asp

To participate in free, fun online discussions, this site has a community forum for families, advocates, teachers and medical professionals located here -

http://forums.bellaonline.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist&Board=57

I hope to hear from you sometime soon, either in the forum or in response to this email message. I thrive on your feedback!

Have fun passing this message along to family and friends, because we all love staying connected and informed!

Pamela Wilson, Special Needs Children Editor
http://specialneedschildren.bellaonline.com

Friendship, Inclusion and Childhood Disability
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art48700.asp

Inclusion Benefits Classmates
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art6157.asp

Teens with Disabilities - Transition to Adulthood
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art33519.asp

Positive Behavior Support in the Classroom
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art58507.asp

DIR Floortime Model Techniques
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art56206.asp

Bilingual Children with Downs Syndrome http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art51927.asp

Nick Jonas and Diabetes Awareness http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art63031.asp

Symptoms of Childhood Onset Diabetes http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art32583.asp

Type One Diabetes Information for Classmates and Their Families http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art32541.asp

Down Syndrome and Diabetes Dual Diagnosis http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art32543.asp

Social Security Compassionate Allowances http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art65756.asp

Down Syndrome & Selective Mutism
http://tinyurl.com/SlctvMtsmADSC

Terri Mauro: Sometimes, the Experts are Full of It
http://bit.ly/97D9ZE

Illustrator with Autism Justin Canha
http://tinyurl.com/ArtstJCanhaAut
See his work: Pedro's Whale
http://tinyurl.com/PdrWhlChBkAut

The Arc’s Disability Survey Focuses On Military Families:
http://bit.ly/9xod6h

Down Syndrome Assoc of Minn
http://www.dsamn.org/adultissues
Adult Matters Conference Sept 11
Roseville Radisson 8am - 4:15pm

T21 Club Delaware Valley presents Down Syndrome Awareness Day
Philadelphia Zoo Sunday, Sept 19
www.t21clubofthedelawarevalley.org

Down Syndrome Buddy Walks
http://www.buddywalk.org
New walks are added - check back often.

16th Annual New York City Buddy Walk® Saturday, September 25, 2010
Location: The Great Hill at Central Park, New York, NY

CA Buddy Walks
Sep 18 Eureka; Sep 25, Santa Rosa; Oct 2 Hemet; Oct 3 San Ramon; Oct 16 San Diego; Oct 17 Upland; Oct 23 Lodi, Bakersfield, El Centro, San Jose; Oct 24 San Jose; Nov 7 Anaheim; Nov 14 Arcadia

OR Buddy Walks: Sep 25, Portland, Salem, Eugene, Seaside; Sep 26, 2010 Lake Oswego, Medford; Oct 2, 2010 Bend

WA Buddy Walks: Sep 25 Richland; Oct 2 Olympia, Bellingham; Oct 3, Seattle Center Puget Sound Buddy Walk; Oct 23, Wenatchee

Tallahassee Down Syndrome Assn Buddy Walk! Sat Sept 11th
http://dsatallahassee.org/

How I became the speech guy w/an iPad:
http://bit.ly/aYJ38I
From speech therapy to therapist w/ tech

THREE LITTLE WORDS:
A beautiful article about the special love between
a parent and child with autism.
http://dld.bz/JcW

Conversation, The Key To Success
http://tinyurl.com/DrJMConvDSAut
Dr Jim McDonald

Express Train Songs
http://www.expresstrain.org
Autism, apraxia, speech delay
Down syndrome:
http://www.expresstrain.org/down_syndrome.htm

TASH Conference Denver Dec. 8-11
http://www.tash.org/2010TASH
Early registration until Sept. 15th

Pedro's Whale
http://tinyurl.com/PdrWhlChBkAut
Win books by Paula Kluth, Patrick Schwarz
& plush whale!
http://tinyurl.com/PKluthFB

Roger Ebert answers reader questions re
The Pot cookbook
http://tinyurl.com/PtHw2MysRcCkr
in NYTimes Diner's Journal
http://j.mp/9ChDo6

Some children have problems receiving &
organizing sensory input from environment
and sensory integration:
http://tinyurl.com/27nvcle

A father reflects on his son's first day at Kindergarten:
The Kindergarten Crop
http://t.co/41fmoAX

Bailey Baio Angel Foundation
http://www.baileybaioangelfoundation.com
Fundraiser Sept 26 for GA1, other
Organic Acidemia Metabolic Disorders

Info on Glutaric acidemia type I http://www.baileybaioangelfoundation.com/info.html
Organic acidemia or aciduria, maple syrup urine disease

Edward Copeland is a very good film critic in a very bad place.
http://j.mp/9z3Z9A

An Attitude and Approach for Teaching Music to Special Learners
http://tinyurl.com/MscSpLrnrs

Dexter, MO: Shailyn's story
http://bit.ly/cW2QOn
Living with Down Syndrome

Academy for Inclusive Adult Education Kennesaw State Univ
http://www.kennesaw.edu/chhs/centers/aiae/

Young man with Down Syndrome attends the
Academy for Inclusive Adult Education at Kennesaw State University
http://bit.ly/9yGWGV

Reports from a Resident Alien
http://bit.ly/a4jzt4
Invisible Disabilities

America's Got Talent:
Amazing 10 y.o. singer Jackie Evancho
http://tinyurl.com/DrmJackieEvancho
Alice Tan Ridley
tinyurl.com/ATRidleyAmBtfl