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 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 | 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...
