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Thoughts and Memories – My friend Stan

You can find Stan’s obituary here: http://www.korsmofuneralservice.com/fullobit.cfm?ID=1716 You can find my first post about Stan here. I sent an email out to everyone in Stan’s address book yesterday. I started getting phone calls and emails this morning from those who knew him. Here are excerpts of those: Stan was Stan. He didn’t apologize for who he was or his strong belief in God, a topic that he was more than willing to share with anyone. He had many difficult times in his life in the past few years with the deaths of his mother, father and daughter. But Stan’s faith kept him going. He kept his home in Lisbon even after he moved to teach in the western part of North Dakota. We always knew when he came back to Lisbon – our doorbell would ring and with an unexpected visit was Stan (even on Christmas Eve). We would laugh,

Special Needs Parenting Discussion: Parents as Health Advocates

How do we Advocate for our Child with Special Needs? Without Breaking Down a Bit Inside? I am joining the #HCHLITSS TweetChat tomorrow night at 8 p.m. EST, where we’ll be chatting about “Parents as Health Advocates.” I was pleased to be asked, and thought, ‘what a great way to open up discussion here at the Cafe on Advocating for our children with special needs.’ The #HCHLITSS Chat is “The Health Communication, Health Literacy, & Social Sciences” Tweetchat, led by RV Rikard and Kathleen Hoffman, PhD MPH and aims to encourage discussion about the intersection of health, communication, and the social world. Parents as Health Advocates – a Special Needs Parenting Discussion When Kathleen tweeted (and DM’ed me!) on Twitter, asking if I would like to be involved, I was excited about the opportunity, and then we emailed back and forth about the topic idea … and I want to make sure we continue

Join the Lost and Tired’s Community #Autism Support Forums

Lost and Tired’s Community #Autism Support Forums Here at Lost and Tired, my goal is to actually help people by presenting them with our real life experience as parents to three boys with #Autism. While our situation may be different from yours, we are all on the same journey. Something else we all have in common is that we all need help and advice from time to time. Personally, I like speaking to people who have actually been there, or are actually going through something similar. I have found that this type of support helps on many levels. For starters, talking to other parents is very non-clinical and much more personal. We can relate to each other in a understanding and non-judgmental way. What I find really cool about this is that you can openly speak your mind and not have to explain yourself. Many of you are likely aware of the support group that I