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Archive for July 7th, 2011

July 4, 2011

 

The school bells rang their final song of the 2010-2011 school year in Eastern Ontario last Wednesday. For many people it marked the beginning of 8 weeks of relaxation and fun in the sun with no thought to school. For others, especially those with children who have special needs, it is a time to garner energy and resources to help their children out for the next school year.

 

Here is a list of some resources available in the Ottawa area and online for parents of children with special needs. If you know of others, please add them in the comments and they will be added to the list!

 

Ottawa Special Education – Parents Helping Parents: The best resources often come from those who know of your experiences first hand. “The [website’s] goal is to provide parents with information to help them support their exceptional children.”

 

Navigating the Special Education System: A PowerPoint presentation (presented as a pdf document) from Diane Wagner, Manager of Public Policy, Client Services & Training, Learning Disabilities Association of Ontario

 

Read in Full:

http://www.examiner.com/special-education-in-ottawa/special-education-resources-ottawa-and-other-areas



Doctors at certain practices refuse to treat kids whose parents refuse immunization schedule

 

July 6, 2011

A small but growing number of parents think vaccines against childhood diseases are unsafe and are refusing or delaying shots for their children, despite the discrediting of a medical study linking vaccines and autism that stirred alarm.

 

Ground zero in the debate is the pediatrician’s office.

 

Some frustrated pediatricians are drawing a line in the sand by requiring parents in their medical practices to vaccinate their children or seek health care elsewhere, a position that rubs some medical professionals the wrong way.

Among those taking a stand are the eight pediatricians of Northwestern Children’s Practice in Chicago. They no longer see children whose parents refuse to follow the childhood immunization schedule developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics. A letter and email sent to parents this year announced the policy, which went into effect in June.

 

“All of the available research shows that the safest and most effective way to vaccinate children is on the schedule set by the CDC and AAP,” said Dr. Scott Goldstein, one of the pediatricians. “To go against that schedule goes against proven scientific research and puts patients who do follow the schedule at risk.”

 

So far, fewer than a dozen families have chosen to leave the practice of about 5,000 to 6,000 patients, said Goldstein, who participates in the Illinois Immunization Patient Advocacy Leadership Initiative run by the Illinois chapter of the AAP.

Statistics show that the vast majority of parents support vaccination, regarded by many physicians as one of the greatest success stories in public health. But the number of parents resisting shots for their children has been increasing.

 

Read in Full:

http://www.ky3.com/news/ct-x-0706-vaccine-refusal-20110706,0,3968732.story