Ministering to People with Special Needs
Children
Tips: Including Children with Disabilities
Ministering to Extra-Special Children
Questions about Students with Special Needs
Teaching Children with Disabilities
Tips on Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities
Working with People with Disabilities
Adults
7 Tips for Teaching Adults with Special Needs
National Association for Adults with Special Needs
One Man’s Story: Coping with Dyslexia
Interview: Youth Pastor Rich Skerbitz
Curriculum & Resources
Special Needs…Special Love — Help your students learn how to relate to children with disabilities by reading this book with them. In this story a girl and her friends learn to appreciate a boy who has Down’s syndrome as they develop a special friendship with him. Included are suggestions for helping children relate to people with disabilities.
"We All Have Gifts" Curriculum — designed specifically for people who have mental impairment. Adaptable for people of all ages. Look at the Leader Guide or Student Guide.
Exceptional Teaching: Including Students with Disabilities. Ensure that students with disabilities are ministered to through the helpful how-to tips found in Exceptional Teaching.
A Special Kind of Love: For Those Who Love Children with Special Needs is written for these moms, dads, grandparents, foster parents, and extended families who live with these children on a day-by- day basis.
Helping Kids Include Kids with Disabilities. Equips readers with the information they need to practice inclusive education in their community.
Special Needs—Special Ministry. Is your church a welcome place for families whose children have special needs? It can—and should—be. In a warm and friendly way, this complete step-by-step guide helps you think through the strategy, scope, and purpose of a special needs ministry.
Missionettes With Special Needs or Disabilities
(Excerpt from Missionettes Leadership Development Unit on Special Needs)
"Children come in all shapes and sizes. Children come with many strengths, weaknesses, and needs—some with special needs. The federal government recognizes twelve areas of disabilities. Children who are labeled in one of these areas are afforded the right to certain educational services in special education. In this unit you will find the categories and characteristics of these disabilities. Although children may exhibit some or all of the characteristics listed under a specific disability, it does not mean they received education services in school for that disability. However, children in your church setting that exhibit social, behavioral, and/or academic problems, most likely experience the same difficulties in school and at home. We must be sensitive to meet their needs and help them to learn about Jesus in a safe, loving environment that promotes their success." [Order online at Gospel Publishing House.]
Articles
Accessibility Becomes Spiritual Lifesaver
Fingerprints of God: A Conversation with Ginny Owens
One Day, One Miracle at a Time
Computer Device Helps Tremblers
Reaching Families No One is Reaching
Reaching Students with Disabilities
Your Missionettes Club: Inclusive or Exclusive?
Assemblies of God National Center for the Blind
The Assemblies of God National Center for the Blind has a variety of resources available for free to loan to the blind, visually impaired and reading disabled. The center provides Christian books, Sunday School material and periodicals on tape and in Braille. Eighty volunteers read books recorded onto tapes. Much of the material is on cassette, including devotionals such as "God’s Word for Today" and "Take Five;" periodicals, including "Club Connection," "Heritage," "High Adventure," "HonorBound," "On Course," "Today’s Pentecostal Evangel" and "Woman’s Touch;" and Sunday School quarterlies, ranging from child to adult. Adult Sunday School quarterlies also are available in Braille. The "Book of Hope" is available in Braille and on cassette. Recipients may keep some of the items, including the Braille edition of the adult Sunday School student guide and the "Book of Hope."
For more information, write to the National Center for the Blind, 1445 N. Boonville Ave., Springfield, MO 65802; call 417-862-2781, extension 1240; send an e-mail to blind@ag.org; or visit their web site.
