Monthly Archives: August 2007

“Children with Disabilities ‘as Happy as Classmates’”

August, 2007 –

Carolyn Thompson, UCC DM board member and representative to UCC Wider Church Ministries, comments: “Good reading for anyone working with children in our churches and schools and society.”
Written by Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor of The Independent, this article reports from a study of 500 children that children with cerebral palsy veiw their life experiences much […]

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Rambling Down Life’s Road … with a brain injury

August, 2007 –

Written by Kevin Pettit, this book provides us with a view of what it is like to have a traumatic brain injury (TBI). It contains unedited excerpts from the diary of Pettit. TBIs occur frequently these days and affect more than 1.5 million people in America each year.
The book is meant to give readers a […]

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Waterloo, Iowa Youth Named UCC DM Rep to Youth/Young Adult Ministry

August, 2007 –

Tyler Greene, has accepted the position of United Church of Christ Disabilities Ministries Representative to the Youth/Young Adult Ministry. A high school senior in Waterloo, Iowa, Tyler is a member of the First Congregational UCC in Waterloo. As the UCC DM representative, he will be a communication and project link between the UCC DM and […]

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