Personal Message
To All Who Fill Our Lives With Joy During the Year...
We hope you have a wonderful Christmas, Hanukah,
Solstice, Kwanza! Thank you for enriching our lives
and making our work more meaningful. May the
coming year be prosperous and joyful and we look
forward to seeing you in the new year!
From the Elves at
The Wyatt Holliday Foundation
www.WyattsHouse.org
360-507-0944
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BRIGHTER TOMORROWS
On March 9-10, 2007 we are hosting a conference
focused on childhood disabilities in co-sponsorship
with The Autism Society of Washington at the
Worthington Center at St. Martin's University in
Lacey, WA. The array of speakers, 35 in all, is very
exticing and the topics covered range from transition
to adulthood through a variety of therapies.
Disabilities covered are Autism Spectrum Disorders,
ADD/ADHD, Bipolar, Schizophrenia, Tourette
Syndrome, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Effects, Learning
Disabilities and more.
The target audience ranges from family members and
friends to educators, counselors, school nurses, child
care centers, health care professionals and other
care providers. St. Martin's University of Lacey, WA
is offering 16 clock hours for educators and a number
of medical an naturopathic doctors are speaking on
everything from pharmaceuticals to nutrition.
Join us, won't you?
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Winter Storms
During the past week many of us in the Western
Washington area were fortunate enough to
experience the discomfort of power outages as well
as trees and phone and electrical lines blocking
passage to crucial passages. The frigid temperatures
are quite humbling and the longing for a hot shower
frustrating. We truly hope everyone within our reach
is no longer in need of assistance and are here for
those who are still in need.
While many of us will enjoy a warm celebration with
family and feast, let us remember those who will go
without presents and even warm clothing. We were
recently informed that one of our families helped
another member in such a situation and are honored
to be associated with this caring family.
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Welcoming the Challenged Child to Faith-Based Education
Over the past year we have received a number of
calls from distraught families claiming they felt
spiritually disconnected because their place of
worship was unaccomodating of their child or could
not understand how best to integrate the needs into
the group. As we often do - we responded.
In collaboration with the Children's Institute for
Learning Differences, we are hosting a workshop for
religious educators, leaders and families who wish to
change this dilemma. On January 13th you have the
opportunity to learn that a few simple steps can
make a world of difference to these families. All
beliefs are welcome. For more information please call
Michele Glickerman at the Children's Institute for
Learning Differences at 206-232-8680 or go online...
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Exceptional Families Network
A few changes are coming our way in the new year.
For one, we are moving our monthly meetings to the
Olympia Community Center - now every third
Saturday from 1-4pm. Those hard core attendees
know that the parking lot conversations will continue
and even the choice of post meeting dining will now
improve with more selection.
In addition, there are a few exciting changes coming
in the way of a new web site for our parent
network. Liferay, a web portal software developer,
has agreed to host our site and allow use of all the
very interesting features they offer. For those of
you familiar with MyYahoo, when you register as a
member, you provide bits of personal information
which allow us to customize what information is
shown. Example, if your child has Down Syndrome,
you should no longer receive all those tidbits about
Autism, unless you select them as topics of interest.
We will not share your personal
information with a third party, but the information
you provide us will directly help our grant writing
efforts with first hand information. It also helps us
guage which areas of information require more
attention. Anyone wanting to assist with the launch
of this via design, content or other means please
contact us via email at info@wyattshouse.org.
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