Disability Awareness: Are We There Yet? (Blog Contest)

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Announcing the Winners!
Thank you to all who participated in the contest! Wow! I'm so impressed with all of your heartfelt and amazing stories. Thank you so much for sharing them with the community!
And, now for the winners. Congratulations to the First 15 Mom Bloggers to Enter the Contest:
Susan
Mary A
Mannequin
Malia
Jennifer Allen
Cindy Ballard
Bekah
Judy
Sarah
Jenn Savedge
Kitty Rosu
Rae Lynn Glispin
Andrea Tannouri
Cara (Hamsterkitten)
Beth Gasser

And Congratulations to Candice Broom (CanCan) she was the blogger who got the most comments on her post -- 23 comments to be exact!

CONTEST DETAILS:
CVS Caremark All Kids Can and TwitterMoms have created an opportunity to get moms blogging about an important issue – supporting children with disability. You could win Amazon.com gift cards for participating! In addition, you could be selected to choose a nonprofit to receive a $1,000 grant from CVS Caremark All Kids Can!

Disability Awareness: Are We There Yet?

March is Disability Awareness Month. How do you talk to your kids about understanding differences? Tell us your tips for talking to kids about differences and promoting inclusion, thinking broadly about any form of special needs a child may have such as a physical disability, autism or any other kind of developmental disability.

How it Works:
To participate, simply write a post on your blog about how you talk to your kids about disability and the importance of inclusion. The only requirement we ask is that your post includes at least one link to http://www.cvscaremarkallkidscan.com/ so your readers can learn more about the great programs CVS Caremark All Kids Can is supporting to make life easier for kids with disabilities. Then return to this discussion page, post a comment below summarizing your blog post, and include an active link to your qualifying blog entry. That’s it! Deadline to enter is Wednesday, March 25th at 11:59 p.m. EST.

Twitter Moms Prizes and Awards:
o First 15 mom bloggers to post about talking to your child about disability and the importance of inclusion and include a link to http://www.cvscaremarkallkidscan.com/ will receive a $20 Amazon gift card.

o The blogger who generates the most comments will receive a $100 Amazon gift card.

In addition, 5 bloggers selected by CVS Caremark will get to choose a nonprofit serving children with disabilities to receive a $1,000 grant from CVS Caremark All Kids Can.

Total Prize Value: $400

Final winners of the gift cards will be announced on Friday, March 27th!

About CVS Caremark All Kids Can
All Kids Can, a program of the CVS Caremark Charitable Trust and CVS Caremark, is a five-year, $25 million commitment to support children with disabilities. The goals of All Kids Can are to support children with disabilities by raising awareness in schools and in local communities about the importance of inclusion, creating greater opportunities for physical activity and play, and providing access to medical rehabilitation and related services. CVS Caremark and its more than 210,000 employees help children with disabilities learn, play and succeed through partnerships with leading local and national nonprofit organizations such as Easter Seals and many others across the country. For more information, visit http://www.cvscaremarkallkidscan.com/.

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Permalink Reply by Slavica Todorovic on March 16, 2009 at 11:04am: Hi Megan

i really love so much to be part of your theme;i have written my blog"In Child's eyes lie Happiness" it has been posted here on twittermoms.com.I sincerely hope you like it;maybe it is a little different,but it is my style of writing.One thing you can be sure;it has been written from the bottom of my heart with much Love.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Slavica Todorovic on March 16, 2009 at 11:09am: Hi
i forgot to put a link to my blog

http://www.twittermoms.com/profiles/blogs/in-childs-eyes-lies-happi...

thank you
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Permalink Reply by Jennifer on March 18, 2009 at 5:11am: I love this! I'm so glad I saw this today... here's my post:

http://twinhappyjen.blogspot.com/2009/03/march-is-disability-awaren...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Christy on March 18, 2009 at 9:12am: http://shakethesalt.com/2009/03/march-is-disabilities-month/; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jennifer on March 18, 2009 at 10:52am: What a great topic. Here's my post.
http://frugalfrontporch.blogspot.com/2009/03/march-is-disabilty-awa...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by MariaD on March 18, 2009 at 4:14pm: I decided to participate in it by publishing a list of many ways we can be inclusive in our math activities. I think the post will be very useful for parents, teachers and the general public, because everybody does mathematics.

60 ways to make math activities inclusive

4. Use multiple representations for your math: words, formulas, gestures, tables, diagrams, pictures, manipulatives, modeling software, graphs, mind maps, movies, sounds. You never know which of them will “click” with different people, or different math concepts for the same person. Use at least three representations for every math idea you encounter.

13. Create or find math holidays. Pi day is 03/14, one of better known math holidays. Celebrate birthdays of your math heroes, dates that make some sort of math sense, but more importantly - your own math accomplishments: “The day I created my first theorem,” for example.

36. Run an activity where everybody draws random pictures and then everybody searches for math in them. People who are stronger in math will probably find more ideas, but everybody’s picture will be a part of the activity. Searching the web for relevant terms and ideas as they are found in pictures helps to make the activity more interesting.

49. Pay attention to emotions, since math is notorious for bringing on strong emotions, from elation to angst. Use relaxation techniques, pauses and time-outs, massage, food, tactile stimulation, good Feng Shui, meditation and prayer or whatever else helps to manage emotions while doing mathematics. Learning to control the many emotional states of math practice is huge help for everybody, but especially for people with disorders that make emotion management harder.

60. Support strong, healthy, well-connected, inclusive communities and networks involving mathematics.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jennifer on March 19, 2009 at 6:37am: I just wanted to add to my post a bit here... I actually received a bit of a backlash from the post I made yesterday on my blog. I have identical twins and in my post, I was trying to make the point that, because my girls are identical, they will actually have an easier time accepting the differences in people. I had at least one person think that I was trying to put the challenges of having identical twins on the same level as having a child with disabilities, which was not my intention at all. So, I actually added a post-script to the end of my post, trying to further clarify my point. Just thought I'd mention it here, too, in case I offended anybody else! :-)
Jennifer said:
I love this! I'm so glad I saw this today... here's my post:

http://twinhappyjen.blogspot.com/2009/03/march-is-disability-awaren...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Alexis on March 21, 2009 at 1:25am: I didn't know about this thank you for sharing this!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Margaret Chaidez on March 23, 2009 at 8:54pm: Just got my blog posted. Relates to my recent experience getting my 3 year old enrolled in preschool and creating his IEP. What a process! The best part is that our district strongly believes kids of different abilities should be paired together to develop compassion and support. You can read more:

http://www.mytreeboys.com/2009/03/offering-effective-inclusion-prog...

I am also posting on FB and Twitter because I am curious to see if this is a nationwide concept at all public and/or private schools; ▶ Reply to This