Vicki Stockard Phipps is a happily married retired teacher and mother of three. Born and raised in the Lone Star State, she received her degree and teaching certificate in 1982, where she specialized in speech-language pathology, special education, child
+ more bio informationInclusion means that children who once had to go to schools specifically designed to meet there needs are now being mainstreamed into regular classrooms throughout the country. This means that legally blind children are now included into the mainstream too, by law. Including children who are labeled as disabled, or impaired ... More..
From state to state, public school services for pre-school children may vary depending on things like budgets and need, but the key to receiving what you believe your child needs is to ask. Sometimes the fact that parents ask will be the key which creates and develops needed services and programs for children. Once you've as... More..
Remission is a good place to be for anyone branded with, "The Big C." It's where all cancer victims want to be and where cancer survivors need to remain, but the key to becoming completely cancer free is to move beyond simply surviving the disease. HOW TO BE ANONYMOUSLY CANCER FREE: TO AND THROUGH REMISSION You see, remissio... More..
My birthday just came and went away, like any other day of the week. Still, the fact remains that I was born on June 25, 1956, the very day Elvis Presley made his debut. Then, fifty-three years to that day, Michael Jackson passed away and Farrah Faucet too. Due to these facts of history, the day I was born will be forever li... More..
The first time I came across the name, Barrack Hussein Obama, the stereotypical American came into my view. "He must be a Muslim or at least a threat to the USA." The ironic thing about this fact is that I'd gone online to search the words, "Hope and/or Faith." You see, I'm blind legally, but I can still see by the light of ... More..
Albert Einstein's Unified Field Theory is described as,"a type of field theory that allows all of the fundamental forces between elementary particles to be written in terms of a single field." Then again, how would I know? I'm only quoting some guy online, which is why I placed quotation marks on each side of the statement h... More..
Pre-marital counseling is a great concept that someone thought of long ago as a way to prevent big mistakes people make. One of those mistakes might be making the wrong choice in a potential life time mate. Another might be immaturity or a lack of income. Then again, it could also be true that you are choosing to get married... More..
I knew immediately there was something different about Barack Obama. I knew it the moment he arrived on my TV screen. I'd never seen a politician like him, but the key that made the difference in him unique, specifically to me, was hard for my legally blind eyes to specify. It might have been that he seemed sincere and hones... More..
Vicki Phipps
Burnet, Texas US
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