Should I Teach My Baby With Down Syndrome Sign Language?

Language and speech are certainly intricate and provide a good number of challenges towards a child with Down syndrome, that it should be dealt with by means of a well-rounded technique of speech and language therapy. Using sign language in Down syndrome can certainly make living less complicated for everybody concerned. A number of toddlers with Down syndrome may experience some degree of speech delay. There are a few options parents should do to assist their baby with Down syndrome with regards to their language development. Striving to learn as well as producing oral language is definitely challenging for these children for a variety of reasons. They oftentimes learn and get better at a considerably slower pace. They possess limited muscular mass along with shorter legs and arms that makes motions substantially tougher. Developing speech is certainly challenging due to the really low tone of muscle around the facial area and shape and size of the tongue. A significant quantity of babies with Down Syndrome also possess hearing problems, which specialists state make discriminating between very similar sounds and words tough. Their very poor verbal memory suggests that it is extremely challenging remembering as well as forming certain words and phrases plus understanding concepts.

Present research data indicate that any child with Down syndrome finds it tough to learn "through their ears" and much better to recognize, fully grasp and utilize language should you provide total care about aiding them "through their eyes." By simply focusing on presenting a special strategy to developing language, you can make the best of just about any skills in lieu of constantly working to improve on weaknesses. Anytime you present an alternative treatment like sign language that is definitely graphic and physical, it is possible to work together with auditory disadvantages and also make improvements to it steadily while your baby grows up in self-confidence. Signing also provides the bonus over the verbal word or phrase on the grounds that any sign can be kept static as a model to imitate. Hands and fingers could be shaped and molded into signs much more effortless compared to sounds that may be formed into words. Babies with Down syndrome as young as eight to twelve months can effectively learn and make use of sign language. Early intervention programs can provide parents assistance when they're uncertain in relation to raising a child with Down syndrome. They discover ways to look after as well as teach their child. They can learn sign language along with their child to enable them to communicate right until speech builds up.

Anytime you are aiding your baby to become comfortable with a sign, come from behind your toddler and guide your baby's hands make up the shape and create the movements. The exercise is surely a lot more natural in this way. You'll be directing your son or daughter's hands and fingers as if he or she has been forming the sign by himself or herself.

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Overwhelmed Special-Needs Parents? Here Is Relief

When you become overwhelmed, take a moment to just stop.

Yes, stop in your tracks.

Ask yourself WHO is overwhelmed? Now the quick answer is "I am overwhelmed and stressed out, of course."

However, that answer is coming instantly from your egoic-mind. The mind run by your ego.

The egoic-mind loves to keep you in chaos.

When you are overwhelmed, if you take the time to tune into what you are thinking, you'll find the stress is coming from your thoughts linked to the past, or the future thoughts of fear.

For example, here is a past thought: "I gotta get this done because I missed a deadline before and this happened ________. I don't want that to happen again."

Here is a future thought: "I gotta get this done, or something awful is probably going to happen."

These thoughts are based on conditions and perceptions. When you stop and just examine the stressful, overwhelming thoughts, you will find you are not living in the here and now moment.

In the present is where you will find inner peace. You will be able to do what you have to do, without getting overwhelmed.

In fact, you will get more done because you are not spending your precious energy with stressful, fearful thoughts draining your life energy.

Instead focus on what you are doing at this very moment. Getting your special-needs child dressed? Stay in the moment and look at the color of the clothes as you slip a shirt of her head. Or how the texture feels. Don't let your mind wander to the next thing.

Your child will most likely feel your anxiety and resist the simplest task. This can be confused with their special-needs, but the truth is any child, without special needs, could feel your tension and resist you.

When you live in the moment, even the most arduous tasks will begin to be OK with you because you are not dreading them. Dreading what you have to do is living in the future. "I hate what I have to do." This only builds up tension and makes the job harder.

So think. Is it the tasks that get you overwhelmed, or the thoughts you are thinking about the tasks?

Be honest. Question your thoughts.

When you begin to observe what you are thinking, you will not be dragged around life like a fallen horseman whose foot is still attached in the saddle of a runaway horse.

Be in the moment.

Don't try to stop your thoughts of being overwhelmed, or criticize them. Just watch as they come and go.

You are now the master and not the slave.

Being a special-needs parent is also taking care of your own special needs, protecting yourself from being overwhelmed.

Love, light and blessings, Janet

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Protecting Your Websites on Bluehost

One of the problems with virtual workers is that until trust is established, you can't give strangers full access to your budding empire. It is imperative that you instigate ways to protect your websites from accidents or sabotage. If you have several different websites (and if you don't, why are you reading this?), you need a way to isolate them from each other.

It can be foolhardy to hand cPanel control over to an unknown webmaster. It is possible to do great damage from the cPanel screen. The list of problems you can have when you give out uncontrolled access includes; shutting down your websites (through incompetence or malice), shutting down your entire account at Bluehost (through the webmaster breaking the Terms of Service), to having your account hijacked and held hostage.

If any of your sites are your source of income, however small, you don't want that site to be the experimental stage for budding webmasters. So how can you both test applicants and protect your sites? I have several sites that have been established for years. I also share the webspace with a business partner. There is no way I can give an untried, untrusted person full cPanel access to my Bluehost account.

I have come up with the following procedure to isolate my websites. My method involves setting up a password protected FTP account to the folder that contains the files for my test site. All of my Bluehost sites are Add-on domains. Of course, I have password protected FTP access to the root domain, which gives me access to all of the sub-folders.

For security purposes, when I want to test a new prospective webmaster, I first create a new Add-on domain in Bluehost. This involves purchasing the domain name, creating the account as an Add-on domain, installing the basic version of WordPress, and creating a backup. This takes about 30 to 45 minutes.

I then set up a new FTP account, password protected, to allow my prospective webmaster the ability to transfer files to and from that website's root folder. I then add an account in WordPress for the new user.

Here is a procedure you can use to assign each of your websites a separate FTP login and password:

Start out by logging in to your Bluehost account:

Scroll down to the Files section and select "FTP Accounts"

You will arrive at a new window that allows you to add an FTP account, named "Add FTP Account".

For our purposes, we don't want to use the standard options. We want to create unique FTP accounts for the domain or sub-domain just created. This will allow the prospective webmaster access to only that domain.

So, create a unique Login ID for this individual account. Make sure that your login info for the Add on domain is NOT the same as your master FTP account.

Password can be either created by you or you can use the auto generate function built in to the Bluehost page.

Note that the program automatically filled the "Directory:" field with a directory of the same name as your login. This is because the standard use for this tool is to create new directories. In our case, we are creating an FTP account for an existing directory, so we will have to change that entry. Change the "Directory:" pointer to point to the directory of the site that you wish to provide access to. It is important that you point to the correct directory, this will be in the form "/home/mainsite/mysite".

I leave the "Quota:" set to unlimited. You might want to set limits on your sites, but I have not found it necessary.

Next, Press the "Create FTP Account" button.

You will see an info screen once the account has been created. This is the username and password for FTP access to that folder. You must give this info to your webmaster so she can access the account with FileZilla. Naturally, keep a copy for yourself.

Next, test the access using my favorite FTP client, Filezilla.

Open your FileZilla program.

Select "File Site Manager..."

Select "New Site" to create a login for your new FTP site.

Name your new site something creative; "mysite" is my favorite choice for demos.

Then enter the information to log in to your new site, using the information from the Bluehost account settings screen. To enter the info, you will also need to set the "Logontype:" parameter from "Anonymous" to "Normal"

Next, test your login by pressing the "Connect" button:

A successful connection will allow you to transfer files to and from the folder of your selected domain. You should not have access to any other folders on the hosting server with this username/password combination.

Now the user you designate can access the selected directory using the FTP information provided. However, she will only have access to that selected directory. This will prevent opening up all of your Bluehost domains and sub-domains to any single user.

Here are the advantages of this system:

The new user must use FileZilla (or an equivalent program) to add or remove files to the site. This is a test of basic web functions. I have had several applicants tell me that they could not perform this function. They were not invited to continue.

The new user must be able to use the built in WordPress account (Admin level, of course) to perform a WordPress upgrade, theme installation, and plug-in setup. If they cannot perform these functions, they do not pass the screening.

The new user must be able to install and use my favorite backup tool, WPTwin, to back up the new site.

As your trust with the new webmaster grows, you can add access to other sites you own using the same method. If the worker proves to be not up to the tasks you assign, the password can easily be changed on that FTP account (under the "FTP Accounts" section of your cPanel), blocking their access to your site. You can then give out a new password to another applicant to allow access to the site.

The disadvantages are that you will have to have already purchased a URL, set up a site, and installed WordPress. As noted above, this usually takes me less than an hour. However, I feel that the peace of mind from taking these steps outweighs the pain of setting up the sites. The same sites can also be used again later, for future webmaster tests, allowing you to easily review your applicants.

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Is Fanfiction Legal?

Fanfiction -- fan-created pictures or stories based on another book or based in the universe of someone else's creation -- is an extremely common way for readers to celebrate an author or the world of that author's imagination and to connect with other fans. But is fanfiction legal?

To determine the legality of fanfiction, let's first take a look at what the law says about the topic.

The rights of a copyright owner

Just by writing a story or novel, the author hold an automatic copyright to that story or novel. No official registration is necessary (although you can bet that any widely published author's material has been officially registered by the time it reaches your eyes, either by the author's efforts or through the author's publishing house).

The copyright owner obviously owns the right to put his or her name on the material and claim it (rightfully) as his or her own, but there are other rights automatically granted to a copyright owner that will become relevant to our discussion on fanfiction. Those rights include:

The right to reproduce the work The right to display, perform, or play the work in public The right to distribute copies of the work The right to prepare derivative works

(You'll notice that the copyright holder has these exclusive rights regardless of whether or not money changes hands.)

The first three points address using the work in its entirety, which isn't relevant to our discussion on fanfiction. However, we'll need to take a closer look at the fourth point.

Derivative Works

A derivative work, according to the US Copyright Office, is "a work based on or derived from one or more already existing works." Even if the resulting work is a completely different kind of work -- a movie based on a book, for example, or a story written about a song -- basing one work on another created a derivative work.

Another example of a derivative work is the Harry Potter movies -- JK Rowling gave her explicit permission to have the movies made, in exchange for compensation of some sort for her role as the creator of the Harry Potter world.

Fanfiction as a derivative work

It's clear that fanfiction, by its very nature, is based on an existing work.

There are some limitations, such as Fair Use, to a copyright holder's exclusive right to use their material. However, fair use has very specific applications -- educational purposes, criticism, reporting, and so on -- that do not readily apply to fanfiction.

The bottom line: Creating a derivative work is the exclusive right of the copyright holder. Since fanfiction is a derivative work, creating or distributing fanfiction without express permission -- even if you credit the original author, and even if you distribute it for free -- is considered copyright infringement.

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Intellectual Property Law And Paralegals: A Perfect Match

Intellectual property law and paralegals go together quite well. The specialized area of law requires quite a bit of research that can be done by a non-attorney, and a paralegal can often help in situations where hiring a second attorney would be prohibitively expensive for both the lawyer and the client. If you are not sure about adding a paralegal to your small firm's staff, consider the benefits of having another helpful professional around. Not only can you increase the amount of work that you get done around the office, but you can safely increase your client load with the knowledge that you have someone to help take care of much of your case work.

Few legal fields are in as much need of experienced paralegals as intellectual property law. Consider for a moment how much time you as an attorney spend doing research, filing paperwork, or simply catching up on the current state of the art. All of these tasks can be performed by a paralegal, freeing you up to concentrate on analyzing and interpreting the relevant issues. A paralegal with experience in intellectual property law will be able to perform research as well as an attorney, and may actually have more experience doing the menial tasks that are necessary to prepare a case for trial. If you are not working with a paralegal, you might be resigning yourself to too many long nights at the office.

You might consider hiring a paralegal to be an expense that your small firm cannot handle, but the truth of the matter is that a good paralegal can help you to make more money. If you can free up some of your time by assigning research and filing tasks to another individual, you will have the freedom to take on a heavier caseload. You will still charge the same rate, but you may be able to handle more clients at one time. A paralegal can help you to focus on the important tasks of practicing law while still allowing you to see to the needs of a number of different clients.

Consider the act of hiring a paralegal to be equivalent to that of hiring a new associate. You cannot simply take anyone with a paralegal certification; you will need someone with significant intellectual property experience. As you well know, intellectual property can be confusing, hard to research, and it requires incredibly specialized knowledge. There are many paralegals looking for work that have the skills that you need, but you should take your time to find the right person to help your firm.

Why hire a paralegal? They can help you to increase your billable hours while helping to decrease your overall workload. A good paralegal can handle many of the same research and filing tasks that you currently handle yourself, allowing you to devote more time and energy to managing your clients' cases. Hiring a skilled paralegal may require a significant expense for a small firm, but it is an expense that will more than pay for itself over time.

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Crucial Data and Events at Turkish Airlines

Turkish Airlines was the recipient of the "Market Leadership Award 2011", given by Air Transport World, a leading magazine within the aviation industry. The presentation for the award was held in Washington D.C. and represents and internationally recognized achievement for the airline.

As we all know, the past number of years have been an exceedingly challenging environment for just about all businesses around the world. The airline industry is universally recognized as following national and global economies, in general. And yes Turkish Airlines consistently showed profitable operating balances throughout difficult years, which could be seen as a testimony to their powerful marketing and innovative management.

Also, one more US flight gateway was added to this list in June, 2010 for Turkish Airlines. This newest expansion increases the total number of US originated gateways to three with nonstop flights from Washington DC to Istanbul, Turkey. There will be four flights per week flying out of Dulles International Airport. The airliner of choice will be the Airbus A330. The move represents continued efforts to allow more Americans the opportunity to discover the beauty of Turkey and all she has to offer. Surely, one could say that Istanbul has both old world and modern charm. In addition, there are plans for a fourth gateway that is planned for March 2011 that will begin in Los Angeles CA and stop in Istanbul.

The incentives and rewards programs for Elite Plus members and the Miles & Essentially, the Elite Plus members will enjoy greater convenience because their earned miles will be located in a single account.

The family members of any individual account holders also benefit by having any generated miles applied to them too. 038; Smiles credit card to pay for purchases, or booking flights from airlines within the Star Alliance partnership.

Since the Turkish Airlines have enjoyed a good run of profitable years, they are in an excellent place to do what a majority of business should be doing. The airlines have been showing their marketing wisdom because they are branding their business in a very good manner globally. We have the opinion that this company moves fast and is ready to take over the very competitive market of aviation and flight travel globally. Not only has there been a lot of sport celebrity multiple year contracts, but the company has expanded their fleet and make improvements all around.

The vast majority of businesses use this principle to advantage. Yet many businesses simply don't bother to reinvest in their own growth, as Turkish Airlines have wisely done. Not only has it made the airline stronger, but it's allowed passengers to reap those.

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