As people with disabilities, we want to have a good time. Sometimes that means taking a break from therapies. We need to have a fun summer like our friends and our classmates.
Having a good time could mean many things. Sometimes therapy could be a good time...
We are midway through the last year of “regular” high school and here is what I wish an experienced "Special Needs" mom had said to me when we started:
• It will be great and awful. You will watch great progress and painful isolation. You may see that the world closes u...
Gannon is in a 3rd grade mainstream class with a 1:1 nurse/intervener. He is unlike any student in his class or school building, for that matter (in regard to his different abilities and medical needs). One thing I always notice is that he really is more like his peer...
Change a tire. Communicate in ASL. Fix a broken garbage disposal. Start a campfire. Remember names. Wear shoes with more than a 1” heel. Have a meaningful conversation about sports. Keep my cuticles in satisfactory condition. Know what I’m doing next week. Remember wha...
I spent the day visiting a couple of different service providers that serve adults with disabilities. There are some incredible leaders working hard to do great things in the disability community. I learned a lot, and some of it was not easy to process. The Illinois se...
A couple of weeks ago my mother and I were shopping for gifts at the local store of a major retail chain. While she looked for one gift, I went in search of an outfit for my friend’s new baby. Not finding that section I asked a sales associate. She told me that the ba...
This weekend Alina won a bronze in long jump and Meg won silver in both the 200 and the 800m run. Meg's 800 was her best time yet at 6:03. I specifically wore my "Nevertheless She Persisted" shirt today because I believe it describes the essence of who Meg and Alina an...
