When I was younger, I worked over a 300 extension switchboard as a switchboard operator for a few prominent companies. These firms were unaware of my strengths. They were more skeptical of my ability to do the job. They didn’t…
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Their Word Isn’t Ours
In the mist of being a disabled person, and having Cerebral Palsy, our words seem to always be misunderstood. The intensity of which we live, speak, and pursue our goals is shocking to the rest of the world. They can’t…
The Unfading Impact
What are the long term impacts and effects for people with Cerebral Palsy and the way we are looked down upon? It’s been my experience, that a great deal of energy and effort has been spent in categorizing particular levels…
Is Change Really Change for the Better?
The dangerous idea of change is a focus too much on words, and not on people’s well being. When experts believe they have a right to limit every part of how a “Special Needs Person” can make decisions and not…
Changing Terminology- Changing Ideas
Where did it all begin? Who knows? But the effects it has left on the special needs community goes much deeper than any of us know. How many times have you been called developmentally delayed instead of just plain Cerebral…
A Fabrication of Our Feelings
It seems as though Cerebral Palsy individuals and their parents have a figment of their imagination. Have you or your special needs child ever sat in on an IPP or IEP meeting where the hearts of The Child Study Team…
Is it so
Have you ever sat-in on your own meeting being disabled and having Cerebral Palsy, or sat beside your child trying to figure out how you can help them? These meetings often seem to be well intentioned, but in reality, are…
Incremental Changes
Incremental Change How many of my readers have tip toed through the hot sand, until you reach the shore line. Once there, the child within comes alive. You play tag with the ebb and flow, and gallop in pure gaiety…
How Do You Show Care and Concern
John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” writes about a family in the great depression who loses everything and heads west to California. On their journey, they meet many people like themselves. It was hard times for everyone; just like it…