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Nov 4, 2006
Ways to Support Your Cause
How can parents and others who care support the cause?
- Learn everything you can about your child's disability.
- Learn everything you can about your child's ABILITIES!
- Get to know adults with your child's disability.
- Communicate often with professionals (doctors, teachers, etc.) in the field.
- Join a parent group.
- Volunteer for fundraisers.
- Lobby for appropriate legislation.
- Talk, email, talk, email. . .
- Be an advocate for your child.
- Teach your child to be his own advocate.
Here are some great examples of parent organizations:
Would you like another way to help?
Go to A Nose for Clothes and vote for your favorite cause. The charity with the most votes will get $1,000. Five hundred dollars will go to the charities receiving the second, third, and fourth number of votes.
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