**Companion Resources Newsletter**
edited by Paul D. Leichty
Volume 3, No. 7 July 2001

This month's newsletter comes at a busy time, so will consist mainly of news items and coming features on the Companion Resources website.

I am preparing to conduct a couple of workshops for parents and other family members of persons with developmental disabilities. As I do this, I am adding new pages and new links to the Companion Resources website. So visit the site over the next month at http://www.cresources.org and see what new resources you can find.

Many of the new materials pertain to subjects like these:
1. Life planning for persons with special needs.
2. Residential options for adults with developmental disabilities.
3. Vocational options and resources
4. Financial planning
5. Education and adaptive equipment

I hope to feature some of the results of my research and some of the best new sites I've found in future editions of the Companion Resources Newsletter.

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Doing all of this research has made me appreciate again how important a good search engine is to finding information on the Internet. Last month, I told you about Google. (Nobody told me yet what a "google" is, though. :>])

I continue to be very impressed by Google. I am especially impressed by a free service of Google which allows users to add the search engine's best features right onto the tool bar of your browser. That way, instead of having to go to a particular website to use Google, you can use it anytime you have your browser open. Go directly to http://toolbar.google.com/ and take a few minutes to download this nifty tool!
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Well, that's all I have time for right now! I'll talk to you next month! Thanks for your support!

Paul D. Leichty
The Goldenrod Community
Middlebury, Indiana
PDLeichtycresources.org

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Companion Resources
"People using Technology building Community"
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