Comments on: Sarah Palin’s Special Needs Policy http://autisminsights.today.com/2008/10/24/sarah-palins-special-needs-policy/ Insights from the perspective of a typical mom of a not-so-typical kid. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:14:46 +0000 http://www.today.com/version-2.3.1 By: katieanne http://autisminsights.today.com/2008/10/24/sarah-palins-special-needs-policy/#comment-1294 katieanne Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:24:52 +0000 http://autisminsights.today.com/2008/10/24/sarah-palins-special-needs-policy/#comment-1294 You know what? I don't think Sarah Palin has a clue about special needs children (or much VP stuff either for that matter but that's another matter entirely) simply because she has had time to learn. Those of us with special needs children know the time it took to read through resources, learn about our special needs children and how they would/could develop. Sarah Palin's baby was born so close to the VP nomination that she hasn't had time to learn about her own child's needs never mind the broader complex issues associated to these special kids. Since her baby was a few months old she's been having to learn how to speak, how to dress, how to read scripts, and also find time to be a mom watching a son go to war, a daughter's advancing pregnancy, and handle 2 middle girls and a baby. I haven't much time for Sarah Palin as VP for the US, but I think she's got her hands too full to have learned anything about the platform she's trying to stand on. Gosh that was more than a twopennath! Sorry! :) You know what? I don’t think Sarah Palin has a clue about special needs children (or much VP stuff either for that matter but that’s another matter entirely) simply because she has had time to learn. Those of us with special needs children know the time it took to read through resources, learn about our special needs children and how they would/could develop. Sarah Palin’s baby was born so close to the VP nomination that she hasn’t had time to learn about her own child’s needs never mind the broader complex issues associated to these special kids. Since her baby was a few months old she’s been having to learn how to speak, how to dress, how to read scripts, and also find time to be a mom watching a son go to war, a daughter’s advancing pregnancy, and handle 2 middle girls and a baby. I haven’t much time for Sarah Palin as VP for the US, but I think she’s got her hands too full to have learned anything about the platform she’s trying to stand on.

Gosh that was more than a twopennath! Sorry! :)

]]> By: threedegrees http://autisminsights.today.com/2008/10/24/sarah-palins-special-needs-policy/#comment-1280 threedegrees Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:06:50 +0000 http://autisminsights.today.com/2008/10/24/sarah-palins-special-needs-policy/#comment-1280 An additional side note, she suggested that a way to pay for these projects amid an across the board spending freeze would be to "eliminate needless earmarks like researching fruit flies in Paris, France". Fruit fly research, of course, is one of the key factors is discovering the proteins linked to causing autism. An additional side note, she suggested that a way to pay for these projects amid an across the board spending freeze would be to “eliminate needless earmarks like researching fruit flies in Paris, France”. Fruit fly research, of course, is one of the key factors is discovering the proteins linked to causing autism.

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