by Erin Croyle | Apr 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
Healthcare can be complicated when you have a disability. Implicit bias – a form of bias that occurs automatically and unintentionally in all of us – can impact care. Medical professionals rarely receive adequate training in how to meet the needs of kids...
by Erin Croyle | Apr 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
Anyone else feeling like they are living in a completely different reality than those around them? For the Spiderman fans out there – it’s like we’re Peter Parker slipping in and out of other dimensions of the universe. For our family of five with an 11-year-old...
by Erin Croyle | Apr 10, 2020 | Child Find, Extended Family, Finding Balance, Help, KIDS, Parents, Preschool, RELATIONSHIPS, Uncategorized, YOU
If there was ever a time to celebrate the siblings of individuals with disabilities, it is now. I have three children. Arlo is 9; he has Down syndrome, ADHD, hearing loss, and medical issues that make him high risk during this pandemic. Emil is 7, Maya is 4; they are...
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 | Jan 15, 2018 | Complications, Help, Home Life, Individuals, Medical Team, Parents, PREGNANCY, RELATIONSHIPS, YOU
We are at the peak of one of the nastiest flu seasons on record, with a widespread outbreak across the entire continental United States according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Even as the spread slows (which it hasn’t yet), the risk of getting the...
