Summer travel with a special needs child can definitely add adventure to your plans. Still, take time for careful planning and discuss things with the whole family first, so that an adventure doesn’t translate into a nightmare
Headlines are quick to capture “deadbeat dads”. Stories and movies are often written about abusive fathers, and about dads who disappear from the lives of their children, leaving moms and children broken, hurt, desolate, and alone. We seem to hear a little bit about the good dads
All of us are born with undeveloped brains. We’ve got one hundred billion brain neurons at birth, but they aren’t connected to
Good special education services are intensive and expensive. Resources are limited. If you have a child with special needs, you may wind up battling the school district for the services your child needs. To prevail, you need information, skills, and
I don’t think there’s any anywhere…
This line runs through my head just about every weekend!
Fifteen years ago, we adopted Matthew, our son with special needs from Russia. He was 3 at the time. I never imagined that I would learn so much in such a short period
The excitement of going on a family vacation can be matched only by the stress parents experience as they prepare for the excursion. Parents of children with disabilities have special considerations to keep in mind
I became a mom at the age of nineteen, to a beautiful, perfect little boy named Jason Matthew Burkhardt. My dream of becoming a mother was
As a “Momentrepreneur” and a Special Needs advocate, Yvonne shares about how she had to choose between avoiding pain and being a fully present mother to a Special Needs baby
Moving to a new location disrupts your life! For any family this can be a time of chaos. There is the adventure of newness, but also a maddening confusion. Everything and everyone is certainly somewhere, but where?
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