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I haven’t read this yet. I have read the original and loved it. 

Wanda Draper Ph.D, is the professional woman that inspired me to write a book to help other in the target audience of special needs or autism. Her book, “Your Child Is Smarter Than You Think,” that is being rereleased or is already now; gave me back my gumption and confidence as a parent. I knew my little one was hiding his secret true intelligence.  Confirmation came recently from a Microsoft Grade Readability Calculator, showing eleventh grade sixth month level. There is some error no doubt; but he is  afraid to show his true talents because of anxiety. Wanda is right!

I am sure this book will be an A+ addition. When I get my copy I will let everyone know. By the way Amazon says they are taking orders but if you want a copy, I can help you with this. The author has copies available or they are available through the author.

Below is what Amazon has to say about the book

“Your Child Is Smarter Than You Think! bridges the gap between how children think and learn and how they feel and behave. Dr. Wanda Draper discusses a whole-child approachto articulate the child’s development and its relationship to behavior and learning from infancy through adolescence. Based on thirty years of experience with thousands of children of all ages, and their parents and teachers, she suggests simple yet powerful ways to help children achieve success in school and life. She says, “You can’t send the head to school and leave the body at home—the whole child goes to school, the whole child lives at home, and the whole child participates in the world.”
 
Through a down-to-earth approach, Dr. Draper offers insights about how to tell the difference between natural behavior and a real problem—and what to do about it. She gives a lively explanation of how children think and act in relation to how they feel. Your Child Is Smarter Than You Think! focuses, at each stage and pathway of development, on suggestions for how to successfully:
 

• live and work with a smart child
• help without interfering
• activate the learning loop
• communicate to get results

 
“Parents and professionals are often confronted by the challenges of children because they are smarter than we think.”
-Dr. Wanda Draper
 
Wanda Draper, PhD, professor emeritus of the College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma, testifies about the relationship between childhood development and adulthood consequences as an expert witness in capital death-penalty trials. She studied at Texas Woman’s University, with additional studies at Harvard University and in Geneva, Switzerland. The author of sixteen books, she has appeared on television, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, and has been quoted in CNN News, USA Today, The New York Times,The Washington Post, Parent magazine, and Reader’s Digest.”

I promise this is a must for educators and parents.

This Blog Post will be short and to the point. I will basically give a quick summary of each resources and how it is available. The biggest share are available in a PDF on the net. I can explain the content and list the PDF name exactly. I think the names are exact but if not they are close enough for you to find them in order to obtain the resource yourself. I cannot by law copy them and give them to you. If I could I would copy them here and make them easily for you to copy The first PDF is titled “The Future of Children with Disabilities,” from http://www.futureofchildren.org. It is volume 22 Number 2 Spring 2012. It contains a number of articles within the PDF; ranging from and introduction on disabilities and the future to emerging technologies. My next pick to place in this mix is on self advocacy and determination. There is the National Gateway sight and resources; twitter handle @gatewaytosd, facbook is gatewaytosd and Utube GagewaytoSD. I can’t speak with certainty about Utube having videos on self advocacy and determination. However, I am pretty certain that Gateway has videos about this topic. The PDF title to look for on the net is 2011_issues1_selfd_selfa.pdf. It deals with advocacy and determination on many levels. The publishers are National Training Institute on Self Determination. As I stated before there are many other resources on the National Gateway and Self Determination site at http://www.ngsd.org/. Here I want to point out the great tool graphic organizers are for teaching to those that lean to the visual learning mode. They can be a great tool for many children tool. Look at these terms and places listed below or put in a search engine to reveal many free resources for graphic organizers. Many can make there own with the word processing software on their computer. The part that deals with accounting or graphic to make tables. There are those that say shapes that can be used to make your own graphic organizer to tailor your mapping of content. But see below for more; Freeology is a place where you can get free graphic organizers Rubistar or putt graphic organizers in any search engine to reveal more sources of free organizers. You may have sign up for a free newsletter but I consider that a small price to pay. It is up to you. I want to bring a term to you called Project Based Learning. See this site for a free article http://www.edutopia.org./user185983.edia/profile. Students basically are applying learning to real world applications or doing case studies. I think this is great for all students but specifically for students with disabilities. Grants from Youth Service America and Service Learning are available for teachers to apply as well as other nonprofits and areas. The next to PDF’s are a result of a ten year study by The National Autism Center’s National Standard’s Report. They deal with best practices in education in healthcare. The one on healthcare can be download by a family touched by autism I believe. The one one on education is free to teachers, educators and maybe homeschoolers. At least this is my understanding. Please read all the declarations and instructions on all the sites and follow the rules. And below are the exact PDF names of the reports: NAC EdManuel1_Finalpdf NAC NSPReport_FINPDF I know these will be of great to use to families, teachers, providers and others working with or associated with autism and special needs.

      My disability does not impair my hearing and I am extremely bright.  

      Perhaps even brighter than you are.

1. THOU SHALL NOT IGNORE ME TALK NEGATIVELY   

    ABOUT ME, SPEAK UNNATURALLY SLOW, OR ASK 

    QUESTIONS TO OTHERS IN THE ROOM THAT    

    PERTAIN TO ME.

1. THOU SHALL BELIEVE IN ME AND HELP ME   

    BELIEVE IN MY SKILLS AND SELF WORTH.  NOTE  

    THE GOOD IN ME AND DO NOT MERELY POINT  

    OUT MY NEGATIVE BEHAVIORS.

      Believe in me and I will believe in myself.

1. THOU SHALL NOT PERCEIVE ME AS DUMB.

      I am extremely intelligent. I do not learn in the same way as you, and  

     maybe not as quickly as you expect me to.  Have patience with me. 

     Once I recall information, I never forget.

1. THOU SHALL NOT JUDGE MY BEHAVIOR

     I can get overstimulated in certain environments. I maybe hypersensitive 

     to sound and loud noises may hurt my ears.  Fluorescent lights are 

     distracting for me. Thea have a humming noise and can pulsate.  All the 

     noises in a room can blur together. Please make accommodations to         

     help me.

******All of the above come from the book(pages 12 and 13) Ten Commandments Of interacting with Kids On The Autism Spectrum And Related Commandments by Mari Nosal.

I AM SAYING GO BUY THE BOOK IF YOU NEED HELP IN THIS ARENA. THE PRICE IS EXTREMELY REASONABLE FOR GOOD ADVICE I PAID MORE FOR VERY POOR ADVICE 17 YEARS AGO THAT WAS SO FAR OFF.  I WAS TOLD TO PUT MY SON IN AN INSTITUTION. HE IS DOING GREAT NOW.

Now it is time to inventory my parental behavior after seventeen years.

Commandments

1. Of course I have yelled.  I am human.  I try not and will try even harder.   Like the Ten Commandments, it is hard for anyone to be perfect.  The point I am taking away from this is if you are doing it all the time and never make an effort there needs to be huge changes.  I try very hard and still have to watch very hard.  It is not an easy task.  I hope this book does for you what I wish I had known.  Maybe then my learned behavior wouldn’t be like kicking smoking.
2. Guilty.  Still do this some. Yet, did a lot when he was a child.  I think most parents do this out of concern and love instead of malice. Again, younger parents and teachers take the advice and wisdom.
3. I always believed in my son.  Careful though with all those extra therapies.  My son Tanner asked, “Mom how stupid do you think I am?”  He thought I pictured him as dumb and needed to fix him.  I told him that I had problems when I was younger and I didn’t get help.  I told him I was trying to give him something I didn’t get to help me with the stress and strain.  Perceptions and Deceptions a slight tongue imbalance but oh how the emotions roll off so different!.

1. See 3 tis the same to me.
2. Guilty again.  I defer a little here.  I say these kids need to be held to a same high standard.  One has to get to know these kids well while working with to figure out when they are playing you and not.  I know I have seen my son play reading on 4th grade level and finally nailed him this summer on 11th grade using a MicroSoft 2010 Grade Reading Readability Calculator.  He still tried to wiggle out but now I have him in a regular History Class.  The school provided a one on one aide without me throwing a fit.  The schools have always been great when it comes to my son.  Maybe a couple of minor things but the schools rule for me. 

OVER ALL IT IS TIME TO BUY THIS BOOK...ESPECIALLY FOR YOUNGER MOMS.  SHORT STORY TIME TOO.

My son used to scream loud and piercing in the car.  I would pull over and check on him.  One automatic act was to turn off the radio.  When he got older and put two words together he said, “Music Off!”  By Ollamok

Thank you God my son has Autism only instead of this horrible other.
I never thought in writing, I would be crying. Tears of joy my son on
the spectrum means he will see the complete stream of light ROGBIV. Please
help me write that your might will make these things come to light.

>>>>Go to this page:   http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/coping/youngpeople

The National Cancer institute will tell you all about it at another page your taxes pay for at this place.

*******Go to this page:   http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Sites-Types/childhood

Now wouldn’t you think they would be letting people know about this page?  I am not going to keep you guessing! If my child had cancer; I would be screaming my ears off why had they not told me about this.

??????Go to the page:  http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Sites-Types/childhood#q6

Now I iz gonna talz like a hic thaz a not sound’n very smartz!  Yet,  I have this information.  All from Yukon, OK.  Where it says it comes from  USA.Gov  Team all to me in an email.  Don’t fret cause I plan to keep you im-formed all this time.

Can you please pass this on for me?    I have many more to hit tonight.

In a July 24, 2013  TriCare announces it changes in autism Coverages on DIvid's by video at this web address: http://www.dvidshub.net/video/297093/tricare-changes-autism-coverage#.Ui0gD2SG1vY.

If you have Basic Coverage there is no change.

If you have Enhanced Care Health Option or Echo Program  there are no changes to your benefit.

If you are a retiree or retired family member’s survivor with autism; autism coverage is being expanded in a Pilot Program and if you want to know more about them call the TriCare Center in your region(Here in Oklahoma, I am sure Tinker or a military base would have that information for you. Yet, TriCare also has a website. Try this site; http://www.military.com/kwlp08?   ESRC=ggl_mem_ben_tricpec_exp_4.kw&np=1).

^^^^^^^ Those with autism are often considered Visual thinkers. “Thinking in Pictures,” by  Temple Grandin often comes to mind when this is said.   The NIH  funded a study in mice recently that shows the “way the brain develops a visual circuit in growth.”  This could be important to autism and the understanding of the processes that go on in this type of classing of a number of spectrum characteristics.

By, Ollamok AKA Sandra Adcock  D.Ph.  M.S.M.

>>>>Go to this page:   http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/coping/youngpeople  The National Cancer Institue will tell you all about it at another page your taxes pay for at this place.                                          *******Go to thie page:   http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Sites-Types/childhood

Now wouldn’t you think they would be letting peole know about this page?  I am not going to keep you guessing! If my child had cancer; I would be screaming my ears off why had they not told me about this.

??????Go to the page:  http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Sites-Types/childhood#q6

Now I iz gonna talz like a hic thaz a not sound’n very smartz!  Yet,  I have this information.  All from Yukon, OK.  Where it says it comes from  USA.Gov  Team all to me in an email.  Don’t fret cause I plan to keep you im-formed all this time.

Can you please pass this on for me?    I have many more to hit tonight.

In a July 24, 2013  Tricare announces it changes in autism Coverages on DIvids by video at this web address: http://www.dvidshub.net/video/297093/tricare-changes-autism-coverage#.Ui0gD2SG1vY.

If you have Basic Coverage there is no change.                                                     If you have Enhanced Care Health Option or Echo Program there are no changes to to your benefit.                                                                                       If you are a retiree or retired family member’s suvivor with autism; autism coverage is being expanded in a Pilot Program and if you want to know more about them call the Tricare Center in your region. (Here in Oklahoma,II am sure Tinker or a military base woud have that information for you. Yet, TriCare also has a website. Try this site; http://www.military.com/kwlp08?  ESRC=ggl_mem_ben_tricpec_exp_4.kw&np=1^^^^^^^ Those with autism are often consindred Visual Thnkers. “Thinking in Pictures,” by  Temple Grandin often comes to mind when this is said.   The NIH  funded a study in mice recently that shows the “way the brain develops a visual circuit in growth.”  This could be important to autism and the understanding of the processes that go on in this type of classing of a number of spectrum characterisics.

By, Ollamok AKA Sandra Adcock  D.Ph.  M.S.M.

>>>>Go to this page:   http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/coping/youngpeople

The National Cancer Institue will tell you all about it at another page your taxes pay for at this place.

*******Go to thie page:   http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Sites-Types/childhood

Now wouldn’t you think they would be letting peole know about this page?  I am not going to keep you guessing! If my child had cancer; I would be screaming my ears off why had they not told me about this.

??????Go to the page:  http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Sites-Types/childhood#q6

Now I iz gonna talz like a hic thaz a not sound’n very smartz!  Yet,  I have this information.  All from Yukon, OK.  Where it says it comes from  USA.Gov  Team all to me in an email.  Don’t fret cause I plan to keep you im-formed all this time.

Can you please pass this on for me?    I have many more to hit tonight.

In a July 24, 2013  Tricare announces it changes in autism Coverages on DIvids by video at this web address: http://www.dvidshub.net/video/297093/tricare-changes-autism-coverage#.Ui0gD2SG1vY.

1. If you have Basic Coverage there is no change.
2. If you have Enhanced Care Health Option or Echo Program

there are no changes to to your benefit.

1.         If you are a retiree or retired family member’s suvivor with autism;

autism coverage is being expanded in a Pilot Program and if you want

to know more about them call the Tricare Center in your region.

(Here in Oklahoma, I am sure Tinker or a military base would

have that information for you. Yet, TriCare also has a website. Try

this site; http://www.military.com/kwlp08?   ESRC=ggl_mem_ben_tricpec_exp_4.kw&np=1)

^^^^^^^ Those with autism are often considered Visual thinkers. “Thinking in Pictures,” by  Temple Grandin often comes to mind when this is said.   The NIH  funded a study in mice recently that shows the “way the brain develops a visual circuit in growth.”  This could be important to autism and the understanding of the processes that go on in this type of classing of a number of spectrum characteristics.

By, Ollamok AKA Sandra Adcock  D.Ph.  M.S.M.

This is a recent article from The Energy Tribune. The numbers are based on a new report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS). There are graphs and charts available at the link that did not transfer over which show the numbers more dramatically. By the way, the shale oil deposits that are not included in the numbers in this article are estimated to be over 800 Billion barrels, that is per the U.S. Department of Natural Resources.

U.S. Has Earth’s Largest Energy Resources

By Peter C Glover
Posted on Mar. 24, 2011

In case anyone missed it, let me repeat something that is of a magnitude of 10 on the scale of news-quakes for Joe Public USA: America’s combined energy resources are, according to a new report from the Congressional Research Service (CSR), the largest on earth. They eclipse Saudi Arabia (3rd), China (4th) and Canada (6th) combined – and that’s without including America’s shale oil deposits and, in the future, the potentially astronomic impact of methane hydrates.

The energy facts in the CRS report should be making front page news all over America. Mostly it isn’t. Given the devastating news from Japan and New Zealand, it may be right to postpone dancing in the streets. But something else is going on. Even though they are going to dominate global energy supply for decades to come the insidious war on vital fossil fuels continues apace.

Thus it perhaps falls to a friend of the US (i.e. me) to state that if the White House is in any way serious about impacting the economic Black H*** that is the burgeoning national debt, reinvigorating business big-time, creating real jobs and restoring ebbing national wealth, the best shot by a distance if you’re American ... well, you’re standing on it, or rather above it.

While love, spiritually speaking and in fiction, may make the world go around, it is energy – and mostly hydrocarbon energy – that actually drives it. As blockbuster thrillers sometimes put it, “Who will tell the President?”

Political pantomime

From over here, the lack of a comprehensive US energy policy and the incoherence of President Obama’s political take on energy, reminds me of a pantomime I saw last Christmas, Aladdin. The cave is full of energy riches, but ‘Emperor’ Obama – or is it Wishy-Washy? –refuses to allow the words “open sesame” to be spoken.

Senator Lisa Murkowski, Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and National Resources Committee, takes up the theme: “As we debate ways to reduce gas prices and provide relief to American families and businesses, this report should be required reading for every member of Congress.” How about for every American citizen too, Senator? Murkowski adds, “For the sake of our national security, our economy, and the world’s environment, we need to explore and develop more of our own resources.”

“The Obama administration has made a conscious policy choice to raise energy prices, accomplished in good measure by restricting access to domestic energy supplies.” So says Senator James Inhofe, a Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. He adds forthrightly, “We could help bring affordable energy to consumers, create new jobs, and grow the economy if the Obama administration would simply get out of the way so America can realize its true energy potential.”

Wow, heavy stuff. But then there’s much to be ‘heavy’ about.

While the US is often depicted as having only a tiny minority of the world’s oil reserves at around 28 billion barrels (based on the somewhat misleading figure of ‘proven reserves’) according to the CRS in reality it has around 163 billion barrels. As Inhofe’s EPW press release comments, “That’s enough oil to maintain America’s current rates of production and replace imports from the Persian Gulf for more than 50 years”. Next up, there’s coal. The CRS report reveals America’s reserves of coal are unsurpassed, accounting for over 28 percent of the world’s coal. Much of it is high quality too. The CRS estimates US recoverable coal reserves at around 262 billion tons (not including further massive, difficult to access, Alaskan reserves). Given the US consumes around 1.2 billion tons a year, that’s a couple of centuries of coal use, at least.

In 2009 the CRS upped its 2006 estimate of America’s enormous natural gas deposits by 25 percent to around 2,047 trillion cubic feet, a conservative figure given the expanding shale gas revolution. At current rates of use that’s enough for around 100 years. Then there is still the, as yet largely publicly untold, story of methane hydrates to consider, a resource which the CRS reports alludes to as “immense...possibly exceeding the combined energy content of all other known fossil fuels.” According to the Inhofe’s EPW, “For perspective, if just 3 percent of this resource can be commercialized ... at current rates of consumption, that level of supply would be enough to provide America’s natural gas for more than 400 years.”

See what I mean about an Aladdin’s Cave of untapped energy? Could America.........

To read the rest of the article and view the graphs and charts, go here;

http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm/6933/US-Has-Earths-Larges...