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How to Work With Doctors to Help Your Child Succeed With Learning and Attention Issues 
Pediatricians can play a positive role in helping your child get the help he needs for learning and attention issues. They can share vital information. They can also help guide you through the evaluation and special education process.
Here's a helpful video with basic facts about dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia and ADHD, and how your doctor can help with these issues. Click here to view the full article for resources on how to work with pediatricians to address your child's unique challenges.
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Special Needs Students Benefit from Unique Early Childhood Program
The role models for these a group of 3 and 4 year olds at Farley Elementary School are not the adults. But their fellow students. A group of nearly 15 of them that help children like 4 year-old Jaxon Vandevord. They've improved his learning and social skills without even realizing it. Something his mother, Dawn couldn't help with.
"He's an only child and so we have a really hard time simulating interaction with other children and he has a lot of learning disabilities so these other kind of are able to do what they do just in play and he's able to learn from that." Read the full article, here.
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iCan Bike
Wichita, July 14-19, 2014
For the ninth year, Independent Living Resource Center (ILRC) will host the iCan Bike, previously known  as Lose the Training Wheels-Wichita, a five-day camp where kids, teens and adults with disabilities learn to ride regular bicycles-without training wheels!
Click here for more information.
Click here to download a camper application.
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Exploring Audio-Supported Reading
Audio-Supported Reading (ASR) is a technology-based approach for accessing and working with text presented in either braille or enlarged (magnified) print. This approach allows a user to listen to a spoken version of text while looking at screen-displayed print or while touching braille. In ASR, both the rate of information pick up and the portion of attention paid to braille or print-in combination with speech-can be controlled by the user. With sufficient practice, both braille readers and magnified print readers can greatly increase the rate at which they move through text using ASR. Read more
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Frequently Asked Question
"Must schools, park and recreation centers, libraries, and museums, make their summer programs accessible to individuals with disabilities?"
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) should make more options available to families by ensuring their right to participate in community and neighborhood programs in integrated settings. Parents should know that they can expect these kinds of programs to meet their child's needs, too.
Here are some examples of how the ADA affects such programs.
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Wichita Parent Center
(316) 945-7747 or (888) 815-6364
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Part I: October 4, 2014 Part II: October 17, 2014 Wichita
Part I: October 18, 2014
Part II: October 24, 2014
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Featured Partner
Child Care Aware� of Kansas is the administrator of the statewide Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) network in Kansas.
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Serving Kansas families and their sons and daughters for more than 30 years.
Families Together, Inc. is the statewide organization that assists parents and their sons and daughters with disabilities. Our program's mission is to encourage, educate, and empower families to be effective advocates for their children.
Click here to view our archived publications!
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