By Amy
He threw with all his might, but the third stone came skipping back. Zack called his grampa. All of a sudden a goblin popped out of the lake and chased Annie, Zack’s sister. The goblin was green, hairy, fat, and only had one eye! The green hairy dude ate Annie. The goblin started speaking, [...]
Have you ever wondered if a quotation mark can have a punctuation mark outside it? Absolutely.
Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, University of Chicago Press, (6.8), says that periods and commas precede closing quotations marks (whether double or single).
However, it says that unlike periods and commas, colons, semicolons, question marks and exclamation points follow [...]
Written by Benjamin’s father. Benjamin Shawa is a special five-year-old who has high functioning autism, or sometimes known as Asperger’s. Benjamin has had a rough go in his short life.
Benjamin was born with 3 major heart defects. When he was a week old he had open-heart surgery to correct two of his heart defects. [...]
Written by Melodie Robinson. When my son, Isaac Egan, was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome (a form of high-functioning autism) and Attention Deficit Disorder a year ago, the daily struggles we faced with him finally began to make sense.
Isaac deals with paralyzing anxiety and an inability to adjust to change.
Last year, when most [...]
Andrew Johnson is a non-verbal six-year-old with autism. He was born with a left sided arachnoid cyst. He attends our local public elementary school. With the assistance of a device called Dynavox, he is able to spend one quarter of his school day in a typical kindergarten classroom.
He is very smart, however he doesn’t have [...]
Hi. My name is Zachary Findall. I am a warm-hearted typical active 6-year-old boy who enjoys swimming, drawing, and playing trains with my two little brothers. The difference between my peers and myself is that I am extremely sensitive to loud sounds, sights, and touch.
If I’m out in public when one of these meltdowns [...]
No offense to cat lovers out there, but this Russellville Family needs some help that only a furry canine can fulfill, and they need YOUR help also!
Jason and Dea Shatterly of Russellville, are raising funds for 4 Paws for Ability in honor of their son Matthew to qualify to receive an Autism [...]
Gerry McGovern’s blog today discusses language in a riveting post that also addresses the (mainly) online business aspect of today’s language. He says, in part that “search is the greatest laboratory of human behavior that has ever existed.”
McGovern talks about how various global governments are trying to change the name of swine flu, and why [...]
I am webmaster for 4 Paws for Ability, and was privilege to meet Jami Leeth online, and help her shape the original fundraising plea once Trapper had been approved for an Autism Service Dog.
What a struggle for this wonderful family. They recently moved from Skagway to Fairbanks, Alaska, so they had more accessibility to [...]
Did you know that 4 Paws for Ability founder Karen Shirk was one of CNN’s Heroes for 2008? Karen is alive today because of a service dog. She’s devoted her life to making the same kind of help available to other disabled children and adults. Karen has developed a special niche of providing dogs for [...]
