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Vanessa Cabrera Is your child ready for Kindergarten?

August arrives and parents start getting ready for school…well, and the kids too! But when you have a child who is just starting in Kindergarten, parents can get stressed about how ready their kids are for school. Do they know the numbers? colors? letters? write their names? But, should they know these skills before they enter school? Isn’t that the reason why they go to school, to learn these things?

Let’s review some definitions of school readines.

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Added by Vanessa Cabrera on September 1, 2010 at 4:27pm — No Comments

Cole Watts Retrofitting the home, to deal with a disability.

If you are faced with a sudden disability, whether it is a result of an accident, a stroke or other life-altering experience, it is important to know how to retrofit a home in order to make it more accessible. Here are a few steps that you should follow in order to make your home more comfortable and livable for someone who is dealing with a loss of mobility or any other disability.

One of the first impulses that m

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Added by Cole Watts on August 31, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

Joseph S Risenhoover Ele Wheelchair help

Some know some dont but if you have a ele wheelchair that must be recharged, you are not supposed to let it charge over 16 hours. That is the max, 12 hours is ideal.

I have found by putting my charger on a 6.00 dollar timer from Walmart, I no longer over charge or forget to unplug my charger.

This not only saves your batteries and helps prolong their life, but it does the same for your charger.

I can plug my chair in and the charger will come on for 12 hours starting at a

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Added by Joseph S Risenhoover on August 26, 2010 at 7:26pm — 5 Comments

Personal Response Corp Mobility Issues for Seniors


Mobility can become a significant issue for seniors. Driving to social engagements and appointments sometimes becomes more challenging - and sometimes even getting around the house safely can become a problem.


How do you live with mobility issues? There are a few ways to help.


Improve your home. Properly-placed grab bars and railings can go a long way towards s

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Added by Personal Response Corp on August 26, 2010 at 2:21pm — No Comments

Lynn Wilson Items That Will Help Caregivers

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Added by Lynn Wilson on August 26, 2010 at 11:52am — 1 Comment

Lynn Wilson How to Deal With The Stress of Caregiving

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Added by Lynn Wilson on August 26, 2010 at 11:03am — No Comments

Mike Peden Autistic Journalist reports its 5,000th hit

I activated my blog, The Autistic Journalist, in January of 2009. In September of that year, the site passed the 1,000-hit mark. Today, the site recorded its 5,000th hit, and I attribute that growth to syndication and support from sites like this one. While there's still much ground to go to make my blog site relevant, I find the increase in traffic encouraging.

To commemorate the event, I discuss an article I read a while back suggesting that brain scans could be used in the future to… Continue

Added by Mike Peden on August 26, 2010 at 12:35am — 2 Comments

cathy fighting sleep to fight MD

Fighting Sleep To Fight MD. You all must be wondering what this is about. well let me explain what MD is. MD stands for muscular dystrophy. Muscular Dystrophy is a group of illnesses which affects the muscles, making them deteriorate over time. There are 42 forms of muscular dystrophy. now for the fighting sleep to fight MD project. What this is, is a fund raiser which raises money to help with research and medical equipment for the patients. I stay up all 21 hours of the MDA telethon, and if I… Continue

Added by cathy on August 25, 2010 at 9:21pm — No Comments

Vanessa Cabrera Kids can get stressed too!

Relaxing is something we all want, yet we never find time for it. Life can be very stressful and fast-paced and we never let our bodies and minds relax. Even when we are “relaxing” we are still thinking about what we have to do next!

Adults stress about the responsibilities of maintaining a family and paying the bills among other things. But kids also experience stress. They might not be able to let you know but there are some behaviors that are signs of stress. Here are a few:

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Added by Vanessa Cabrera on August 24, 2010 at 6:25pm — No Comments

Trish Robichaud 30 Things About My Invisible Illness You May Not Know

National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week logo

In honour of National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week (NICIAW), coming up Sept 13 - 19, 2010, I'm blogging about "30 Things About my Invisible Illness You May Not Know". This is a NICIAW campaign and I encourage you,

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Added by Trish Robichaud on August 23, 2010 at 2:30am — No Comments

Cole Watts Sitting down with a Lift Chair.


People with disabilities face many problems in life, that we sometimes forget about, such as going up a flight of stairs or finding a mobility accessibly restroom. People often forget that disabled people also cannot take advantage of many of the luxuries that we consider part of our day to day routine, such as sitting in a comfortable chair in the afternoon. However, with the ever growing presence of the Lift Chair, more and more people are being able to enjoy the beauty o
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Added by Cole Watts on August 20, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

Penny Sherwood Lost Thoughts

I was thinking of a topic and Lost all my Thoughts. I haven't written in quite sometime. So, if this happens to be out of context you will understand.

In March, of this year, I relocated to a much larger residence for myself and my Service Dog (Karma). The yard is HUGE and the house is quite spacious. It actually took me longer than usual to unpack and permanently place things where I wanted them. During this time, I was trying to keep up with all the posts that I research f
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Added by Penny Sherwood on August 18, 2010 at 6:38pm — No Comments

Linda Jane McLean WHAT PRICE FREEDOM?

The other day, I heard of the experience of a disabled man in an electric wheelchair in Edinburgh. He was accosted by two twelve-year-old boys, who switched off the power in his chair and pushed him in front of the traffic in a busy street.

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Added by Linda Jane McLean on August 18, 2010 at 6:30am — No Comments

Lynn Wilson Home safety hazards: 10 places to look for potential danger

Take steps to protect yourself from injuries in the home. Here is a list of 10 potential dangers that are prevalent in your home and what you can do to prevent serious accidents and injuries from occurring.

  1. The bathroom. This is perhaps one of the most well-known places for injuries. Slips in a wet bathtub or falling off a toilet can break a
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Added by Lynn Wilson on August 16, 2010 at 2:44pm — 2 Comments

Trish Robichaud Affordable Coaching for Everyone!

Woman reaching for the sky


Have you ever thought about engaging a coach to help you move forward with your life or some specific goal that's important to you but just keeps ending up on the back burner? Do finances keep you from
committing to coaching? Well, hold onto your seat!

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Added by Trish Robichaud on August 16, 2010 at 12:22am — No Comments

Silly Ez Help the 2011 NFB Youth Slam Receive a Grant of $250,000 from the Pepsi Refresh Project!

Help the 2011 NFB Youth Slam Receive a Grant of $250,000 from the Pepsi Refresh Project!

As many of you already know, now is your chance to help the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) bring in a grant award of $250,000 by casting daily votes for their 2011 NFB Youth Slam in the Pepsi Refresh project. The 2011 NFB Youth Slam, similar to its predecessors in 2007 and 2009, will be a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) academy for blind high school youth. Too often, bl

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Added by Silly Ez on August 15, 2010 at 12:37pm — No Comments

thomas brownlee the new health care bill

i have heard different views about health care what will it do to medicaid will it hurt or help
for othters it will really effect it some states are challengeing it the new law.
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Added by thomas brownlee on August 10, 2010 at 10:02am — No Comments

Cole Watts The Benefits of Using a Stair Lift


Have you ever heard of a Stair Lift? To be quite honest with you, I had not heard about them until a few weeks ago. A Stair Lift provides the idea way to carry an individual up and down the stairs. A stair lift is nothing more than a personal lift, used for physically challenged or elderly people. It has been almost 9 years since the first Stair Lift was developed and since then, the technology is ever evolving and introducing new innovative means that enable people to enjo
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Added by Cole Watts on August 9, 2010 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Rudy Sims Bookshare Offering 3 Month FREE Membership (August 2010) in honor of ADA 20th Anniversary

Community member Valerie Chernek forwarded this information to me recently and I thought I would share it with the community hopefully at least some of you will find this helpful. Also please forward this information to anybody who you think may find it useful as well thanks.

Bookshare Celebrates 20th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act
with Free Membership Offer

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Added by Rudy Sims on August 3, 2010 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Dave Uhlman Hear and There Audio Picture News, Oil spill in the Gulf

We audio describe important news stories from around the world.

We describe the video you have heard but wondered what was going on in the pictures.

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Added by Dave Uhlman on August 1, 2010 at 1:14pm — No Comments

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