YOUR QUOTA WAS WELL USED. -----Original Message----- From: Rayna Lamb [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 9:12 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: funding questions Hey Beth, A thought just occurred to me (and that's my allotment for this month ;-), along with the pics of the kids, seeing as they ask you `why do kids need a job', maybe tell them that that is part of what any good childhood therapy does, provides kids with a basis for becoming productive contributing memembers of society later on. Although you are concerned with dealing with their needs now as kids, your work is vital for laying the foundations for being happy employable adults who are able to give back to society. Perhaps use the members of this list (names omitted or fictionalised of course) as an example, there is such a variety of things everyone does, tell them about the many different qualifications we've all got, give them examples of the skills and abilities on this list alone. Show them what your kids can become with the right help and enough resources. Show these people the future - not the future AB's usually think `cripples' have, but the real future and potential that all of us embody. Maybe if you could find some pictures of adults with disabilities working, socialising, having families - cause we ALL know that's what is missing from those poisonious telethons - a real vision of our future. Show them reality, and the long term effects of the good work that you do, Beth, maybe that will help - at the very least it might get them thinking and changing attitudes. Just a thought. :-) Rayna