As of 9/20/07 – Imagine-All Children information is posted on TangentLife Website: www.tangentlife.com/ Any school (public or private), organization or individual that offers services or is a resource for children with special needs can submit information to Tangent Life. Send items of interest to debra@TangentLife.com Take a few minutes and look around the website.
		Every Child		Parents & Families		All Children
			The excellence of our school district can be found within the children who inhabit our school buildings
Home Reading & Arithmetic Resources for Children with Special Needs … & their brothers & sisters & families & educators Parent College Parenting Classes QuixWorks Therapeutic Massage Contact About Us The Autism Book, Answers to Your Most Pressing Questions by S. Jhoanna Robledo & Dawn Ham-Kucharski Embracing Ashley: One Mother’s Reflection on Raising a Child with Special Needs by Deanne Lee Bialy Copyright © D. Madonna Last Updated September 20, 2007 Contact D. Madonna © 1997 ~ 2007 Storyteller Design Co Parent College QuixWork Therapeutic Massage All Rights Reserved					Sandra Sagear
	Imagine all the children
					sharing all the world
			“2650 children, (14.7 % of the 18,000 students in the Plymouth-Canton School District receive special services – which includes Speech & Language and Alternative Education services.” Rich Ham-Kucharski March 14, 2005		Music in the Park
			Our children must be able to move through our school buildings, … like a food court, sampling everything that we have to offer. We cannot restrict children in one room or one activity all year long or set a course for them because we don’t know what trajectory they’ll take them to their own future. Children can’t sit still for long. They’re wigglers. That’s what keeps them young at heart. Parents want their children to be able to participate in many activities … and have fun. Kids want to be successful, but they also want to have friends, to play, to try, to learn who they are, what they can do, to be part of a team, to have their turn “at bat”. There are many opportunities for children in this school district, but opportunities without options are just someone else’s plans. The best opportunities are those that allow parents and children the flexibility to alter them to fit each child’s needs. This is not catering to a child’s whims, it’s recognizing that children are growing people and childhood is the time they gather everything they will need to journey through a lifetime. A parent's job is to sit in the stands, keep their fingers crossed and cheer their child on. If a child fumbles the ball or hits a few wrong notes, we really don't care. Parents know that children make mistakes, but they are never the mistake. They're our kids. And if we do a great job as a parent, our kids will be wonderfully imperfect, just like us. The Plymouth-Canton School schools are exceptional and excellent because of the children who inhabit them. ……………………………… Debra Madonna, March 14, 2005
	“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” Dr. Spock
parent communication network … a district-wide parent involvement committee