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Posted: Jun 13th, 2009 at 11:42 am
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May be a repeat, but wanted it here in this thread for encouragement. 
"I tell my patients, if people point at you when you walk down the street and say,
'Look at that neurotic parent,"'
says Paul Ehrlich, a pediatric immunologist in New York City,
"then and only then are you being careful enough."
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Enable the child with LTFA: Disable the food use!
Committee Member FIREBIRD
DS - PA/TNA, latex, other legumes, mango
DD - TNA/verifying PA; drug allergies
Me - sulfites and other drugs
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Posted: Jun 15th, 2009 at 08:38 am
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Enable the child with LTFA: Disable the food use!
Committee Member FIREBIRD
DS - PA/TNA, latex, other legumes, mango
DD - TNA/verifying PA; drug allergies
Me - sulfites and other drugs
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Posted: Jun 29th, 2009 at 08:22 am
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Enable the child with LTFA: Disable the food use!
Committee Member FIREBIRD
DS - PA/TNA, latex, other legumes, mango
DD - TNA/verifying PA; drug allergies
Me - sulfites and other drugs
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Posted: Aug 21st, 2009 at 08:01 pm
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i dont know where i found this but i think this OCR letter would be helpful to people like me who cannot get the school to understand 504s include every tiny thing the school will do to accommodate.... here is a link
listserv.doe.state.in.us/pipermail/snurses/.../47IDELR22.pdf
hope this helps someone
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VFettik
Aug 21st, 2009 at 09:35 pm »
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DS (5yrs old)- PEANUT, TREE NUT, EGG, SHELLFISH.
Dogs, Molds, Grass.
Red dye....can that be tested? i was told no by one doc and yes by another...
such a newbie!!!!
Jax, Fl
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Posted: Aug 21st, 2009 at 09:28 pm
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DS (5yrs old)- PEANUT, TREE NUT, EGG, SHELLFISH.
Dogs, Molds, Grass.
Red dye....can that be tested? i was told no by one doc and yes by another...
such a newbie!!!!
Jax, Fl
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Posted: Oct 4th, 2009 at 11:05 am
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Cross-posting this here.
COuld be useful when addressing many safety & risk-mitigation aspects of 504 -- from the practical handwashing to bullying:
This looks interesting and is timely:
Quote from article:
Dr. Poland ’s testimony emphasized that many schools have become complacent about safety planning. He gave several examples of the lack of prioritization of safety and crisis planning by school administrators.
Website is National Association of School Psychologists
http://www.nasponline.org/resources/crisis_safety/polandtestimony.aspx
Also -- link from there to the archived webcast of hearing July 8, 2009 in House of Rep “Strengthening School Safety through Prevention of Bullying.”
http://edlabor.house.gov/hearings/2009/07/strengthening-school-safety-th.shtml
You can bet a whole lot of the info applies to GENERAL safety and can easily apply to LTFA safety and accommodations . . .
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Enable the child with LTFA: Disable the food use!
Committee Member FIREBIRD
DS - PA/TNA, latex, other legumes, mango
DD - TNA/verifying PA; drug allergies
Me - sulfites and other drugs
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Posted: Oct 26th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
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Enable the child with LTFA: Disable the food use!
Committee Member FIREBIRD
DS - PA/TNA, latex, other legumes, mango
DD - TNA/verifying PA; drug allergies
Me - sulfites and other drugs
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Posted: Sep 27th, 2010 at 09:57 am
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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Natl Institute of Health website)
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/foodAllergy/understanding/Pages/quickFacts.aspx
Food Allergy Quick Facts
•Food allergy occurs in 6 to 8 percent of children 4 years of age or under, and in 3.7 percent of adults.
•In young children, the prevalence of allergy to cow’s milk is 1.9-3.2 percent, and allergy to egg is 2.6 percent.
•Allergy to peanuts and tree nuts in the general population is, respectively, 0.6 percent and 0.4 percent, with the rate in children under age 18 (0.8 percent and 0.2 percent) slightly different from adults (0.6 percent and 0.5 percent respectively). These two foods are the leading causes of fatal and near fatal food-allergic reactions.
•In spite of attempts to avoid allergenic foods, accidental exposures are the major causes of allergic reactions to foods. Over a period of two years, approximately 50 percent of subjects in the United States with food allergy have an allergic reaction to accidental exposure.
•In the United States, there are approximately 30,000 episodes of food-induced anaphylaxis, associated with 100 to 200 deaths; most deaths occur in adolescents and young adults.
•The prevalence of seafood allergy in the general population is 2.3 percent and represents the commonest form of food allergy in adults.
•The prevalence of seafood allergy in the general population is 0.4 percent to fish, 2.0 percent to shellfish and 0.2 percent to both. Seafood allergy is less common in children (0.6 percent) than adults (2.8 percent).
•Food allergy is the most frequent single cause of emergency room visits for anaphylaxis and accounts for 34 to 52 percent of these visits.
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Enable the child with LTFA: Disable the food use!
Committee Member FIREBIRD
DS - PA/TNA, latex, other legumes, mango
DD - TNA/verifying PA; drug allergies
Me - sulfites and other drugs
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Posted: Jan 26th, 2011 at 03:33 am
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Section 504, the ADA, and Public Schools
By: Tom E.C. Smith (2001)
http://www.ldonline.org/article/6108
lists references:
Tom E.C. Smith, November 2001, Remedial And Special Education, Vol 22, No. 6, November/December 2001, Pages 335-343.
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PLEASE NOTE that the above article was written PRIOR to the ADA amendment of 2008 and does not appear to have been updated as might be necessary.
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Enable the child with LTFA: Disable the food use!
Committee Member FIREBIRD
DS - PA/TNA, latex, other legumes, mango
DD - TNA/verifying PA; drug allergies
Me - sulfites and other drugs
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Posted: Jan 26th, 2011 at 04:03 pm
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You beat me to it ajas! Love having you on the "team". 
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“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” Scott Peck
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Posted: Aug 4th, 2011 at 08:03 am
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Enable the child with LTFA: Disable the food use!
Committee Member FIREBIRD
DS - PA/TNA, latex, other legumes, mango
DD - TNA/verifying PA; drug allergies
Me - sulfites and other drugs
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