Senate Health Bill Raises Taxes on Families of Special Needs Children
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — There are 18 separate tax hikes in the Reid-Obama healthcare bill. One of them caps the amount that can be deferred in Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) at $2500 per year (a similar provision was included in the Pelosi-Obama health bill [...]
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I just found this wonderful site and forum - Mothering.com
Here you can connect with other Moms on an amazing array of subjects.
This is the Parenting Special Needs Forum
This is a great list of resources for everything you could possibly imagine.
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Check out their Swine Flu Special Report.
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Developmental Disabilities Area Board 10 is proud to present the “IEP Strategy Guide – Understanding the Process So You Can Get What You Need”, a free downloadable guide. If you have a child with an individual education program (IEP), this guide is for you. Rather than being an exhaustive list of [...]
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I just picked up Malcolm Gladwell’s book, What the Dog Saw. Gladwell is an incredibly perceptive and engaging writer and his books have given interesting insight into how we perceive the world around us. In Blink he gives an amazing account of a research project done with an Autistic man and how he watches movies. [...]
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Special thanks to Candyce Estave, the North County Coordinator for the Santa Barbara Chapter of the Autism Society of America for sending these links to local Autism support groups:
SantaMariaAutismSupport@yahoogroups.com
Santa Barbara Alternative treatments for Autism.
SBATA@yahoogroups.com
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