Education United States Project #4120

Better lives for kids with special needs worldwide

by The Drive For Rebecca, Inc.

Project Report | Sep 9, 2010
Free resources for parents on DriveForRebecca.org

By Jonathan Singer | Founder, The Drive For Rebecca

We've added two new free resources to DriveForRebecca.org for parents and caregivers that have been downloaded over 1000 times in the past few weeks.

Your Child Handbook

A free organizer to help parents of children with special needs put together a binder containing everything there is to know about their child, including medical history, school information, and all related correspondence and evaluations. It serves as a handy reference guide for parents, for new doctors or therapists, and for anyone who might care for a child while parents are away or if something happens to them.

Your Family Achievement Diary

A free download for parents to record and celebrate what their children accomplish each day, at home and in school, to help acknowledge their progress.

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Aug 9, 2010
Great progress on potential partnership

By Jonathan Singer | Founder, The Drive For Rebecca

Jun 9, 2010
Great review by Academy of Special Needs Planners

By Jon Singer | President

As part of our mission, we continue to distribute free copies of The Special Needs Parent Handbook to families that are unable to afford them and are reaching out to several national charities about helping us to expand our reach.

In the meantime, The Academy of Special Needs Planners, a national organization representing attorneys that help families with children with special needs with estate planning, wrote a very favorable review of the book and mentioned Advocacy For All. We have asked them to help us distribute free books through their members.

Here are some excerpts from their review:

"The Special Needs Parent Handbook is a well-written, down-to-earth guidebook that reads like a conversation with a good friend. In it, Singer offers tips for interacting with a child with special needs that he has learned through his first-hand experience of raising both a child with special needs as well and one without."

"In a particularly helpful section, Singer discusses how to integrate a child with special needs into the general community, and he offers suggestions for teaching children and parents without special needs about a child's condition without sounding shrill or patronizing. In fact, throughout the book, Singer's conversational tone rarely reaches a fever pitch -- you can tell that he is completely committed to his work without resorting to lecturing. When you reach the end of The Special Needs Parent Handbook, you will feel like you gained 15 years of practical knowledge in a matter of hours.

At the moment, The Special Needs Parent Handbook is available as a download from Singer's Web site with a $10 donation to Advocacy for All. Readers can also purchase an ebook version for the Kindle or iPhone. To read excerpts from the book, or to purchase a copy, click here."

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Book review and mention of Advocacy For All

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