Helping families choose private schools and summer camps
At the first ever Our Kids Summer Camp Expo, representatives and staff from over forty-five different summer camps filled the hall with booths equipped with beach balls, wooden cabin-like roofs, as well as frisbees, arts and crafts, and even mini-s’mores! Each camp brought it’s own slice of summer to meet with over 600 curious families, consisting of parents as well as their budding campers, whether they browsed through their options in strollers or in tightly-packed huddles of teenage friends.
After over two years, Howard Eaton’s Brain School: Stories of Children With Learning Disabilities and Attention Disorders Who Changed Their Lives by Improving Their Cognitive Functioning is now in the hands of the public! Parents at Eaton Arrowsmith School sat down this past Monday Nov 22nd to listen to Howard Eaton, director of Eaton Arrowsmith School Vancouver and Victoria, read excerpts from his book and to pick up their copies. At times it was difficult for Howard to read the chapters without becoming emotional, as he reflected on the life changes that the students enrolled at Eaton Arrowsmith School have made by strengthening their cognitive capacities for learning…in essence, by rewiring their brains, thus enabling them to transition back to typical public and private schools with no or far reduced need for academic or social support.
Our Kids provides the education, camp, and parenting headlines you should know. A new StatsCan study announces that over the past twenty years, high school drop-outs rates have decreased almost by half, from 16.6 per cent to 8.5 per cent. Students with ADHD are warned to avoid Ontario, British Columbia, and Quebec. They are apparently [...]
More common than Down’s Syndrome, childhood cancer, cystic fibrosis, multiple sclerosis, even blindness and deafness, are Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs). Today in Canada, at least 1 in every 165 children are diagnosed with a form of autism, a developmental disorder that seriously limits a child’s ability to communicate and interact with others and their surroundings. For decades, doctors, specialists, and organizations like Autism Speaks and The Geneva Centre for Autism have been stumped as to the causes of ASDs – why it sometimes appears in families with histories of autism and other times occurs out of the blue, why one child can be diagnosed with it while their sibling develops without a problem, and why autism manifests itself so differently in each person, and to various levels of severity from the milder form of Asperger’s Syndrome to the potentially life-threatening Rett Syndrome.
Here’s some good news I read today. Thought I’d share.. Thursday, March 04, 2010 I am happy to report that the TWS (Toronto Waldorf School) high school completed another very successful inspection by an Education Officer from the Ministry of Education on February 5. We are inspected every two years and have, since 1975 when [...]
Tying Your Own Shoes is a documentary about four artists who happen to have special needs. An animated movie about Petra, Matthew, Daninah and Katherine, who all have Down Syndrome, Tying Your Own Shoes takes a look at how art affects self-esteem and perceptions of ability. Launching to celebrate World Down Syndrome Day on March [...]
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