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Window To Our World
An inside perspective of special children, their families, volunteers, community members and Friendship Circle coordinators who bring them together.
An inside perspective of special children, their families, volunteers, community members and Friendship Circle coordinators who bring them together.
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Do Autistic Children Have Special Souls?
By Yehuda Shurpin
I am the mother of two autistic children. I love them both dearly, but as any parent of children with special needs will tell you, raising them is challenging and can often be full of disappointment, hurt and frustration...
Ideas & Beliefs » Questions & Answers » Life & Death » Do Autistic Children Have Special Souls?
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On People with Special Needs
Compiled by Dovid Zaklikowski
Correspondence of the Rebbe and Dr. Robert Wilkes, at the time director of the Child Development Center at the Coney Island Hospital, on the subject of assisting children with special needs.
The Rebbe » Wisdom » Letters » Family Life » On People with Special Needs
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Correspondence Reveals Rebbe’s Focus on Individual’s Innate Potential
By Dovid Zaklikowski
A series of correspondence between the Rebbe and professionals treating people with special needs was published this week.
News » Stories » Correspondence Reveals Rebbe’s Focus on Individual’s Innate Potential
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Handicaps
By Jill Pincus
As a child I believed I sang very well, and this assumption was never threatened until I auditioned for my junior high-school choir...
Women » Motherhood & Childrearing » Special Children » Handicaps
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Are we to blame for our son's brain dysfunction?
By Chana Weisberg
Chana Question: My son was diagnosed with a form of brain dysfunction. Please let me know if his parents or grandparents did something to deserve this punishment. Should we blame ourselves for his illness? Also, how can we help him? Answer: I am sorry ...
Ask the Rabbi » Latest Questions » Advice » Are we to blame for our son's brain dysfunction?
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My Special Brother
By Chaya A.
From a young age I remember wishing that I could wake up and it would all be a dream. I remember wishing that none of this happened, that it wasn't my family that was different from everybody elses...
Women » Readers Write » Writing » Young Women Write » My Special Brother
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Baruch, Our Special Child
By Sara Rosenfeld
I remember looking at the doctor and thinking: "You are not G‑d. That is your opinion, but anything can happen..."
Women » Motherhood & Childrearing » Special Children » Baruch, Our Special Child
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Where Angels Tread
By Leah Lawrence
The following poem was written for my daughter Madison shortly after her birth. Madison was born with Down Syndrome...
Women » Readers Write » Poetry » Parenting » Where Angels Tread
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Chaim's Bar Mitzvah
By Yossy Goldman
Chaim was born 13 years ago, a healthy child to healthy parents. Then one day, out of the blue, Chaim contracted a "virus" (funny, how when they don't know what it is, they call it a "virus"...)
Society & Living » Voices » Endurance » Chaim's Bar Mitzvah
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