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Ah, the good old days of trade shows where companies would give you t-shirts, teddy bears, inflatable beach balls, designer wines - anything they could engrave or inscribe their name and product on. Because of rising costs, a lot of cool marketing freebies are a thing of the past.

Welcome to the October 2, 2008 edition of special needs and money. This is our second carnival! Where does the time fly? As usual dear carnival guests, do your own research and due diligence with any business claims found on the net. The popcorn is popping, the children are having fun.

The dead line is approaching for my second carnival of special needs and money. My first carnival was a little on the light side in terms of content, so if you have a blog that is relevant to autism, Rett Syndrome, CP or any other special needs issue or something that deals with money and special needs, please send the listing through the Blog Carnival.

I just uploaded this weekend my book and cover to the printer.  Hopefully I will have a clean proof and be out with the new book within a week.  In the meantime, dear readers, here are the chapters for you to review and be amused with (or not depending on your mood).

Brain Wave Vibration Helping Rett Syndrome By Michela | August 15, 2008 As Brain Wave Vibration is practiced more and more by Dahn  Yoga practitioners around the world, stories about how Brain Wave Vibration has helped people in different ways keep surfacing. One particularly touching story was made into a video.

In the Rett Syndrome community as well as in other special needs communities, there is some buzz about Timothy Shriver’s op ed piece in the Washington Post.  Evidently in the upcoming film, Tropic Thunder, there will be exchanges where the actors talk about playing characters who have special needs and are called “retarded”.

I’ve noticed at amusement parks and some places that for special needs people, there are certain hoops that a person has to jump through now to get passes for special access.  Some parks have modified their rides to be wheelchair friendly to the point where you can literally take your wheelchair on

Almost sound liking a drill instructor, huh?  I was talking with people on the Rettnet, one of the special needs support groups for people who have children who have Rett Syndrome and one of the things that came up was the discussion of the “The Secret”.  Basically, it is the Law of Attraction (what

from EurekAlert.org Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have found that the reflux and swallowing problems that are common symptoms in patients with Rett syndrome and other neurological impairments, may be caused by a different mechanism than they are in healthy individuals.

Unless you have a perfect product out of the chute everytime, and if you do, please call me or drop me an email because I want to work for you, you constantly should be looking at what you can do to improve your product, your service, your research.  An example of this is my first book, Your Daughter