Here are Dev’s thoughts about Vietnam in her own words. I did add a few punctuation marks this time and lead her a bit with the ideas, but the rest is all Dev! She had to do a power point for school too Hi I’m Devon. I would like to share my story about my [...]
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“Sam’s Top Secret Journal–book 1–We Spy” is a fun, middle reader, chapter mystery that happens to have a main character with Down Syndrome. The reason for the book is multi-facited. 1. Inspire, trying to inspire families touched by DS by showing what can be possible 2. Inclusion, showing class mates, siblings, teachers what can be [...]
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Wow it is hard to believe, we will be in Vietnam in less than a week. We will be having some fun, teaching some medical stuff and some conversational English. We will also be leading by example when it comes to INCLUSION and ACCEPTANCE. The new story about the teen with DS that made the [...]
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Raise Expectations is running a contest to win a new iPad! The contest will start Monday March 4th and end April 17th 2013. Enter the contest by sending in your answer to the question: “How did Sam describe her dad after trying out his new bike in their driveway on his birthday?” from the [...]
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Here are 2 of Dev’s recent posts on the Science class she is taking now. I do not change or add the ever need punctuation, it is straight from her Ipad: I loved how my ecology teacher assigned me to be a leader of my group and to be a teacher to third graders for [...]
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Here we go! Hey guys so on last Friday night some girls from cheer came to my house they took me in a car blindfolded I was told not to speak so I fell asleep it was so late so when we had all girls at a friends house we took our blindfolds off we [...]
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So, I’m working on another post that has been swimming in my head, but just has not fully formed yet about the Nature vs. Nurture aspect of parenting. Then last night happened… I was not prepared, so I do not have any great pictures, but I will have the memories. As so many of us [...]
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Dev and Sean worked together on this. They had so much fun. Sean reworked the words, and Dev loved it! We hope you do too! Do you have any favorite songs that play over in your mind?
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Dev just started a ski team here in Seattle called “SkiHawks”. We have skied for awhile. First just Sean and I, then on vacations. Now here in Seattle we can ski almost every weekend! It has been a lot of fun for most of the family…. Dev has always been our “reluctant” skier. She would [...]
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While riding my bike to work this morning I had one of those life changing moments when someone tried to run me off the rode then honked their horn at me as they did so. I was in there way and they were probably late for work. This wasn’t some masked stranger but a neighbor [...]
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