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[Jenny Obando]

this is long however I had to share it with you all !

REALLY A GOOD CHOICE

You make the choice. Don't look for a punch line. There isn't one. My question to you is: Would you have made the same choice?

At a fund-raising dinner for a school that serves learning disabled children, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question."When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does is done with perfection. Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do. He cannot understand things as other children do. Where is the natural order of things in my son?" The audience was stilled by the query.
The father continued. "I believe, that when a child like Shay comes into the world, an opportunity to realize true human nature presents itself, and it comes, in the way other people treat that child."

Then he told the following story: Shay and his father had walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball. Shay asked, "Do you think they'll let me play?" Shay's father knew that most of the boys would not want someone like Shay on their team, but the father also understood that if his son were allowed to play, it would give him a much-needed sense of
belonging. Shay's father approached one of the boys on the field and asked if Shay could play. The boy looked around for guidance and, getting none, he took matters into his own hands and said, "We're losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning. I guess he can be on our team and we'll try to put him in to bat in the ninth inning." In the bottom of the eighth inning,
Shay's team scored a few runs but was still behind by three. In the top of the ninth inning, Shay put on a glove and played in the outfield. Even though no hits came his way, he was obviously ecstatic just to be in the game and on the field, grinning from ear to ear as his father waved to
him from the stands. In the bottom of the ninth inning, Shay's team scored again.

Now, with two outs and the bases loaded, the potential winning run was on base and Shay was scheduled to be next at bat. At this juncture, let Shay bat and give away their chance to win the game? Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat. Everyone knew that a hit was all but impossible 'cause Shay didn't even know how to hold the bat properly, much less connect with the ball.
However, as Shay stepped up to the plate, the pitcher moved in a few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shay could at least be able to make contact. The first pitch came and Shay swung clumsily and missed. The pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly towards Shay. As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and hit a slow ground ball right back
to the pitcher. The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could have easily thrown the ball to the first baseman. Shay would have been out and that would have been the end of the game. Instead, the pitcher took the ball and turned and threw the ball on a high arc to right field, far beyond the reach of the first baseman. Everyone started yelling, "Shay, run to first! Run to first!"

Never in his life had Shay ever made it to first base. He scampered down the baseline, wide-eyed and startled. Everyone yelled, "Run to second, run to second!" By the time Shay rounded first base, the right fielder had the ball. He could have thrown the ball to the second-baseman for the tag,
but he understood the pitcher's intentions and intentionally threw the ball high and far over the third-baseman's head. Shay ran toward second base as the runners ahead of him deliriously circled the bases toward home. Shay reached second base, the opposing shortstop ran to him, turned him in the direction of third base, and shouted, "Run to third!" As Shay rounded third, the boys from both teams were screaming, "Shay, run home!" Shay ran to home, stepped on the plate, and was cheered as the hero who hit the "grand slam" and won the game for his team.

That day," said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face, "the boys from both teams helped bring a piece of true love and humanity into this world."

Friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

[Deleted User]

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[Kwon Mark]

Urgent *** Looking for Therapists ***

4 years old boy in North Surrey area/
has been on a program for 6 months under consultant, Buffy Paul/
2-3 sessions/6-9 hours/week/

If interested, contact Jinnie at 604-583-3383

[Kwon Mark]

Urgent *** Looking for Therapists ***

4 years old boy in North Surrey area/
has been on a program for 6 months under consultant, Buffy Paul/
2-3 sessions/6-9 hours/week/

If interested, contact Jinnie at 604-583-3383

[Mike & Jean]

ATtention Korean and English speaking parents or therapists contact Lisa Wincz •••.a.p. at 604-904-9332.

This is very important.

Thanks,
Jean

[Deleted User]

A great THANKS to Tamara Ledger for coming to the Island and sharing her knowledge on using videotaping techniques. I found the presentation very informative and it gave me another tool to teach my daughter those "challeging" social skills…

Also, I want to thank Diane Therriault
and Barbara McLeod for organizing this presentation – I am eagerly wating for the next one!

Franca

[Avery Raskin]

A few things about consultants and taxes:

1) No bona fide consultant should be excluded from any service providers' list. If the consultant you want to use is a qualified experienced Lovaas-ABA consultant and is being kept off the list, that is something we need to make public.

2) GST is a place where the social worker may actually be telling you the truth — the provincial government is exempt from GST so if they are billed by a consultant they don't have to pay any, whereas if you are billed directly by a consultant, and that consultant has registered for GST, they will charge you for it. This leads us to (3):

3) Lovaas-ABA treatment programs are GST exempt under the rules of GST. Unfortunately, qualified ABA professionals don't always get the correct tax advice. Once registered and remitting tax to the government, it's very hard to get them to take you off the rolls and let you stop charging. It pains me that some of the best ABA consultants fell into this trap. What they need to do is to get some competent legal advice and take the pains to get out of that mess, so they can stop charging for it. If you look it up on the CCRA web site, you will find the relevent sections — as a psychological service, and medically-necessary treatment, Lovaas-ABA is exempt.

Avery

[Barbara Rodrigues]

I just wanted to mention this point that Jacqueline brought up also – beware that it looks like MCFD is trying to get us to stop taking individualized funding and go for the direct billing – they will come up with all sorts of reasons for this, etc. Scare tactics being the main old MCFD ploy used in past. We need to be sure we stick together and make sure we keep this 'option' available to us of individualized funding as it looks like they are trying very hard to get us to give it up. And before you know it – they will tell us who will be our consultant – who we can hire to come into our home and be our therapists.

I would check with the consultant on the GST thing – I think most include this in the actual cost of the consult. I don't see why they would charge the family and not government or vise versa – that seems strange – if true maybe a consultant on list can clarify?

Also Jacqueline – if your consultant isn't on the ACTBC list – just have them join – it's quite simple I think. The web site is actbc.ca/serviceunder6.htm and if you click on the link – and go down there's a service provider application form that they can fill out and then you can use them. I don't think it takes too long to get approved (not sure but it never used to before).

Good luck to you. Again, I am not well versed in the under 6 stuff so maybe if anyone else has more info they can respond.

Barbara
Jeremy's Mom

[Jacqueline and Dennis Bell]

Okay… now I don't get it.

I finally narrow down my "consultant" and get all my ducks in a row for funding.. only to have them say that to get funding I have to have a consultant off the ACTBC list of Qualified service providers.

AND to say that I should go with the government holding the funding and paying the consultants … cause If I do it many of the providers and consultants will charge me GSt… Where-as if they bill directly to the Government they don't… Thus doing the billing part myself will cost me 7% … (Now they said a month of funding.. but I am thinking it is only the consultant or professionals not EVERYONE)

I mean everytime Ithink I am getting somewhere… another "road block" or detour occurs…

Jacqueline

jmrbell@telus.net

[Jacqueline and Dennis Bell]

Has any one heard of any of the following:

EIBI program (Offered by the governement I think)

ABC (A consulting group in BC) with Christina Louie as ABC's Intake Coordinator

OR

A Private consultant in Ontario named: Annette Griffith

Any information on any of the Above would be great.

Thanks.

Jacqueline

jmrbell@telus.net

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