We have a calendar of upcoming events to share with you.
Mark your calendars………
Mississauga Marathon race kit
stuffing, Thursday May 10th,
Location:
The Caring Network is pleased once again to offer
assistance to the Mississauga Marathon by volunteering to put together the race
kits for their runners. Anyone is welcome to participate in this fun,
hardworking evening, dinner included please RSVP, we need volunteers.
Contact: Lisa Drummond:
drummondl@hdsb.ca
Reading
Workshop, Tuesday,
May 15th,
Presenting Pat Mandaliti, long awaited since the snow
storm, please come and enjoy
while learning techniques to help your child to
read.
Loblaws Community room, upstairs (Glen Erin and
Eglinton)
Contact: Anna: ajmancini@rogers.com
Race Kits Thursday,May
31st at Loblaws Superstore (Winston Churchill and Argentia location)
For The Bread and Honey Race, kit stuffing (see
below)
Community room
If you want to begin volunteering for the race day, we
need your help to make up the race kits at this location. (no children
please)
Contact Ellie:
erruda@rogers.com
The Bread and Honey Race Sunday June
3rd. at Streetsville H.S.
We are grateful once again that the Credit Valley
Marathon Club has chosen The Caring Network as the recipient for the fundraising
at this event. As well, we are welcoming our members as runners and volunteers
please!!! We have many tasks to fulfill so join us on Sunday morning
Contact Anna: ajmancini@rogers.com
Annual Summer Picnic
Sunrise Acres, 5316 First Line(west of Britannia)
Milton
As usual we’ll have fun in the sun!
Bar-b-q, clown, fun and games. A great way for parents
and children to network.
Bring a dessert to share, your own drinks, lawn chairs
and picnic blankets.
All welcome, please RSVP to: Francesca Bell:
bellfrancesca@sympatico.ca
Special Needs Soccer May to August, Mondays at
Not too late to join Email: info@nmsc.net or call at:
905-858-1227
Francesca’s Yoga Workshop
Yoga for
Children
I took my daughter to her first yoga class when she was
four. She picked up the poses quite quickly and was able to demonstrate
what she had learned at home with little prompting. One day her teacher at
school mentioned that she had shown the class some of her moves and how thrilled
the kids were to learn more. She had such a smile on her face when she came home
that day, I was so glad knowing that this would be a plus for her social
skills.
My daughter is still practicing yoga today and on most
days her brothers join us in our class.
With the practice of yoga many parents and teachers of
children with special needs like, Down syndrome and other developmental
disabilities, are often surprised to see how quick they master basic motor,
communicative and cognitive skills. Practicing yoga also helps children with
learning disabilities develop greater concentration, balance, and composure in
their everyday lives.
Yoga can complement some of the therapies that our
children do, such as speech. Developing speech and language skills requires the
assistance of a speech/language therapist. Yoga helps to improve respiration,
and will complement the work of the speech
therapist.
Children reap the same benefits whether they get into
the poses themselves or if they require assistance. Yoga is safe, gentle and
therapeutic for children of all ages including children with special
needs.
Yoga is an enjoyable way to improve the quality of lives
for infants, children and their parents.
Contact for more information Francesca Bell:
bellfrancesca@sympatico.ca
Conferences Of
Interest:
2nd International Come To Your Senses
Conference
Opening the Sensory World to Children &
Adults with Complex Disabilities
The 2nd International Come To Your Senses Conference
will take place on
We invite professionals, parents, caregivers, persons with disabilities,
researchers and consumers to attend the conference and participate in
discussions covering wide array of topics within the realm of Sensory Field and
people with disabilities. The goal is to share and disseminate knowledge and
experience from around the world so that we can better understand the Sensory
Reality of people with disabilities and the many forms of treatment that exist.
Take advantage of Early Bird registration and REGISTER NOW by visiting
www.sensoryconference.ca.
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to I: Self Concept and People with Down
syndrome
Feeling
good about yourself should be the goal at the end of each day. A positive
approach means more than the giving of reinforcement, it means the giving of
respect, the giving of recognition, the giving of responsibility. We have
the opportunity to increase a feeling of self-worth in ourselves and others with
almost every interaction. Hear how to do just
that!
Dave Hingsburger
works providing direct service to people with developmental disabilities.
He is in private practice providing education and consultation for staff and
agencies and counseling for people with
disabilities.
Mr. Hingsburger
lectures extensively. He earned his B.A. in psychology at the
Conference
location - This is the 5th annual Down Syndrome
Association of Ontario Conference. The location of the conference is the
Holiday Inn Peterborough Waterfront,
Association
Displays - If your local Down Syndrome
Association would like to set up a display at the conference, please let us know
so that we can have a table available for you. Arrangements can be made by
e-mailing Deb Reid at deb.reid@bellnet.ca
Your executive members this
year:
President: Lisa Drummond:
drummondl@hdsb.ca
Vice President: Tina Nicholson:
teetreestar@yahoo.com
Secretary: Francesca Bell: bellfrancesca@sympatico.ca
Treasurer: Ellie Arruda:
erruda@rogers.com
Special Committee leaders:
Anna Mancini: ajmancini@rogers.com>
Suzanne Cupido and Nelson
Santos.