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The Sprout Film Festival has a brilliant collection of films about people with disabilities. We are pleased to present a brief list of several of these films. Excerpts taken from Sprout Touring Film Festival 17 min. / Narrative / 2005 / UK A man with Down syndrome discovers there is more to life than films when he discovers the outside world. A short tale about imprisonment and love, freedom a... Read Full Story
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The Sprout Film Festival (SFF) was created as a way to promote positive awareness of people with disabilities in every community. They offer a great selection of films about people with disabilities. The idea is that they will come to your community and provide the films for an all day festival, an evening, or for a week long activity. They will tailor a festival just for you.The Sprout Film Festival is based in New York but will travel to other parts of the country.If you ar... Read Full Story
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One of the greatest challenges we may face in current and future planning for the community and social needs of people with autism is in providing quality community support and social networks. The issues surrounding social skills and relationship building must be addressed. How will we as communities learn to relate and build relationships with people who have autism? How will we respond to their presence in our communities?The following book was written to fascilitate social skills training... Read Full Story
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This is a very moving article by Estee Klar-Wolfund. Everyone of these children has a contribution of major proportion to offer humanity. I for one, believe now is the time to establish the social supports to complement the best inside each of these kids.I Am The Happy Mother Of An AutisticChild I am a happy mother of an autistic child. I do worry about negative representations of autism in the media and the “prevention” and “disease” mindset. ... Read Full Story
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Published to One World For Peace Survey
June 14th is Flag Day in the U.S. I have a suggestion--how about we fly a peace flag this year and keep it flying all year long!Here is a place where you can get peace flags for your lawn:Click through to see the plexo and order your favorite peace flag today! Read Full Story
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The following article is an excellent discussion of ideas presented in favor of educating our children to be peace loving citizens of the planet. I highly recommend his suggestions to all teachers everywhere--Sunday School teachers too.I have included the article in its entirety because I felt it worthy of extensive thought.Teaching Peace by David Krieger, December 7, 2006 Peace is a dynamic process of nonviolent social interaction that results in security for all members of a society. Pea... Read Full Story
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A recent search of keywords and review of websites on the topic of autism resources has revealed that there are few organizations, if any, who have allocated any attention to futuristic aspects and the impact of millions of U.S. citizens with autism who will be living in virtually every U.S. community over the next several decades.According to the Autism Society of America an estimated 4 million people with autism will be living in U.S. communities in just the next ten years. There is a yet t... Read Full Story
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Wikizines are interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - and this one is called "Autism Resources". Here you can find fresh voices and respond in real time. Some members write articles about recent news and trends related to the wikizine's topic, others recount relevant personal stories or share their favorite pictures and video clips. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this wikizine? Well, then put on your journalist's cap and add ... Read Full Story
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Published to Oneness Blessing
From: squidoo.com
There is a movement sweeping the planet and its aim is to bring a Oneness Blessing to 64,000 people all over the world. The purpose of this movement is to raise the oneness consciousness on the entire planet. The founder of this movement is Sri Bhagavan who has been giving Oneness Blessing and formally raising the consciousness of people world-wide since 1985 from the Oneness University in Southern India. Over 500 Oneness Blessing Facilitators (people who have received the training to facilit... Read Full Story
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What a difference!I've seen lots of bogus advertising about how to improve car gas mileage and I have been very skeptical about risking the use of something that would completely wipe out my engine. Then my neighbor insisted one day that he had consistently gotten the best truck gas mileage ever using a very innovative product in his 1985 Ford pickup. It wasn't too long ago that I thought I would have to finally get a second job to raise some cash to buy another mode of transportation... Read Full Story
