by Guest Author | Jun 6, 2018 | Advocacy, Extended Family, Friends and Acquaintances, Individuals, Parents, RELATIONSHIPS, Self-Advocacy, YOU
By Erin Mahone May just ended a few days ago. I am exhausted. I live with a mental health diagnosis. May is Mental Health Awareness Month. I am Jewish. May is Jewish American Heritage Month. I am a mother. May is Mother’s Day. And May is my husband’s and my...
by Erin Croyle | Jun 4, 2018 | Advocacy, Career, College, High School, IEP, Individuals, Job Training, KIDS, Parents, Self-Advocacy, TRANSITION, Uncategorized, YOU
Self determination is the core of the human experience. Our lives, our all too fast trips around the sun are OURS to do with what we want. Self determination is controlling your own destiny, calling the shots in your life. Having a say in the decisions that impact...
by Guest Author | May 23, 2018 | Advocacy, BABY, Doctors, Individuals, Medical Team, Parents, RELATIONSHIPS, Self-Advocacy, YOU
by Angela West As we celebrate Memorial Day, I think about the men and women who fight for our freedom. My mother came here from South Korea and started a life with my father. Even thirty years later, she tells me that she is thankful that I was born in America...
by Guest Author | Apr 9, 2018 | Advocacy, BABY, Diagnosis, Early Intervention, Individuals, Medical Team, Parents, RELATIONSHIPS, Self-Advocacy, Uncategorized, YOU
by Irene Schmalz I am the Liaison to the Deaf/Hard of Hearing at the Center for Family Involvement. My primary focus is to help parents who just found out their child has failed the newborn hearing screening and/or received the diagnosis of a hearing loss. As part of...
by Guest Author | Mar 14, 2018 | Advocacy, BABY, Diagnosis, Extended Family, Friends and Acquaintances, Parents, RELATIONSHIPS, Uncategorized, YOU
by Jamie Bruen Recently it was mentioned how the world might be better without people with disabilities to a friend. She asked how I would have handled it, how words like that make me feel, if it is worth speaking out in anger. My son, Liam, is 99.9% physically...
by Erin Croyle | Mar 8, 2018 | Advocacy, Friends and Acquaintances, Individuals, Medical Team, Parents, RELATIONSHIPS, Self-Advocacy, Uncategorized, YOU
We are well into the age of the internet where nasty Yelp reviews and Facebook rants rule. We have every right to air our grievances and report wrongdoing. It needs to be done so poor treatment isn’t repeated. But it is so easy to get sucked into this cycle of...
