Monthly Archives: June 2012

Health Promotion for Persons with Disabilities – focus group

So I was invited by the North Dakota Center for Person’s with Disabilities to participate in a focus group. The purpose is to develop a tool that accurately assesses rural health care for person’s with disabilities. Health Promotions for Persons with Disabilities can be found.  it is interesting to see what they are looking at for data. we spent two hours talking about accessibility in rural health.  barriers, facilitators that kind of thing. It was quite interesting, I hope I get invited back in the future. Tweet #fighting4answrs

a midsummer nights update

Things are kind of rocking along here in whynotfathers land. Our youngest son is still being home schooled.  We still don’t know what is supposed to be in the Service Plan that we are supposed to file with the school district.  Our state Department of Public Instruction gave me our state century code as guidelines, and then referred me to our school superintendent for more advice.  The superintendent told me to ask my wife.  My wife, who teaches in special education in another district, says he doesn’t need one, and even if he did, doesn’t know what is supposed to be in it. Our local newspaper did a feature story about David and I, about our little home school.  It was kind of neat.  Wish we could have talked about the issues with our local district a little more, but getting the word out about kids having special needs was

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Cozy Calm Weighted Blanket for Jackson’s Journey

A couple of weeks ago, I posted about Jackson’s upcoming surgery. Jackson’s mama has indicated that he has major sensory issues.  They have some items to help with the sensory stuff, but feel that a weighted blanket would be of benefit while he is in the hospital next month recovering from surgery.   How can you help? We would like to see if we can get one of the vendors to donate a blanket to Jackson. There is a company in Minnesota that makes blankets.  They are also working to get a grant for their company.  In order to qualify for the grant, they need 250 votes.  If we can get the votes for them, maybe we can get a free or reduced price blanket for Jackson. Either way, this company deserves a chance at the grant, in order that they can continue to make these blankets for our kids. To

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