Super Dadvocate: Hogan Hilling Making a Difference!
Our Super Dadvocate Hogan Hilling! An Awakening Moment With My Disabled Child, Wesley When people discover that one of my three boys, Wesley, is a child with a disability, the...
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Summer Internet Surfing Keeping Kids Safe Online
The internet makes it possible to travel anywhere in the world with a click of a mouse. One minute your child can be visiting an African Safari, the next a...
Why Siblings Are Too Important To Ignore
Celebrate Siblings Today, I am speaking with Don Meyer about siblings and why they are too IMPORTANT to ignore. Don Meyer is the director of the Sibling Support Project. He is probably best known...
Date Night Ideas for Exhausted Parents
Did you have an abundance of date night ideas early in your relationship? How about when you were newly married? As parents, what date night ideas do the two of...
Setting and Achieving High Expectations
Setting and Achieving High Expectations Marta and Sophie are both young adults with similar abilities. When dining out with their families, however, this is what occurs: Upon entering the restaurant,...
Liz Petruzzi 3 Things I Did Wrong… and 3 Things I Did Right!
Liz Petruzzi In 1989, I gave birth to our first and only child, a son. Joey was born with a rare, genetic syndrome called Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome. At the age of...
How I Did It Evaluate and Select a Group Home
Is a Group Home The Answer? As I write this today, I am much closer to 70 than 60 and my son who has multiple disabilities is now 40. Until...
When Is the Right Time to Transition from Your Home to a Group Home?
Transitioning from Your Home to a Group Home and Independent Living for the Developmentally Disabled To gain some insight on transitioning from one’s own home to group home, we spoke...
Empathy vs Sympathy, Do You Know the Difference?
Empathy vs. Sympathy, do you know the difference? I found a great video on empathy. I feel that we all encounter things in our life that we have to deal...
Tip from a Speech Therapist: Social Thinking Skills for Children with Special Needs
The holiday season is often challenging for most of us. For our family members with special needs, it is even more stressful. We need to employ all of our “social...
