Ways to Support Your Cause

Posted by Lynn Moore Nov 4, 2006

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:

• IFOPA
• National Down Syndrome Society
• Down Syndrome Assoication - UK
• Learning Disabilities Association of America
• National Center for Learning Disabilities
• American Society for Deaf Children

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.