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Siblings Of Sick Kids Learn A Life Lesson Early

From our friends at Vanderbilt, courtesy of NPR; Children who have siblings with chronic illnesses or disabilities often find their lives are constantly interrupted by medical emergencies that trump regular kid cares like birthday parties and soccer games. These children learn at an early age to put another person’s needs first and are often better…
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Where’s Molly?

From CBS… “Where’s Molly?” is the poignant question a little boy used to ask many years ago. The answer to that question was a long time coming. Our Cover Story is reported by John Blackstone: If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the pictures of the Daly Family in the 1950s tell the…
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Establishing in-person groups for adult sibs

From Don Meyer, Sibling Support Project and SLN extraordinaire… Dear friends, I often get emails from adult siblings who are searching for groups where they might meet other adult sibs and share information, war stories, and maybe a few laughs. As there are very few of these programs to be found anywhere it would be…
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A [Sibling’s] Guide to Advocacy – Down Syndrome and Alzheimer’s

Bill was born in 1960, the youngest of 9 children. He grew up in a small town where he was readily accepted and nurtured by family and friends. He attended kindergarten at the local elementary school and then transferred to a regional consolidated educational cooperative called BOCES, where he remained until age 21. Bill began…
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When One Sibling Is Developmentally Disabled

From NPR- “I’ve almost made peace with the fact that we aren’t hauling our kids down to my parents in Florida for Thanksgiving. Actually, it’s my sister Cecily I feel bad about. She’s the one I don’t keep in touch with enough. She’s 39, and — deep breath — “developmentally disabled and legally blind.” Those…
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Press Release- OK SIBS- Oklahoma Supporting and Including Brothers and Sisters

NEW SUPPORT GROUP FOR ADULTS SIBLINGS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES OKSIBS will host two Adult Sibling Support Group meetings in January for adult siblings, age 18 and up, who are siblings of persons with disabilities. The informal support group will meet on Saturday, January 8th at 10:00am at the Child Study Center located at 1100…
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