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Special Needs Smart Pages: Advice, Answers, and Articles About Teaching Children with Special Needs By Joni & Friends / Gospel Light Autism, Down syndrome, physical disabilities . . . children with special needs often don't fit into typical church programs. Yet it's critical that we help them discover their God-given value and unique gifts! This comprehensive resource includes Bible lessons, inspiring real-life stories, teacher devotionals, training articles, and more---plus a CD-ROM. 328 reproducible pages, softcover from Gospel Light. |
My heart ached when I recently read where 95% of people with disabilities and their families are unchurched.
The CDC just came out with new autism rates. They now say, "1 in 59 children has been identified with autism spectrum disorder."** They also reported: "1 in 6 children in the United States had a developmental disability in 2006-2008."**
To see what you and your church can do to reach this vast, forgotten mission field of hurting people, see Joni and Friends education and training.
Learn how Christians with intellectual disabilities are serving churches: The Ministry of the Disabled.
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**Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Data & Statistics, April 26, 2018
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/data.html
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