Pipecleaner Dreams

**originally posted January, 2009** I wrote last week about embracing HOPE as my theme for 2009. One of the commentors on that post and o...

YES, YES, YES, YES!! There is hope.... State-run institutions will soon be a relic of the past in Georgia under a landmark settlement reac...

"I would do anything for them. And you have to look at a child for just who they are, and not just for their disability.” That statemen...

It's been a rough week, and I needed to have someone tell me that giving up is not an option. This video did that. Hope you enjoy. Ha...

I’ve always wondered how Ashley would be able to travel and live independently given both her hearing and vision loss. She has a white cane...

How do you decide what skills to push your child to master and which skills can take a back seat? When I first adopted Ashley, she was 2 yea...

I wrote last week about embracing HOPE as my theme for 2009. One of the commentors on that post and one of my favorite bloggers, Michelle M...

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tunes without the words and never stops at all” —Emily Dickinson (18...

My brother, Carl, showed me a website last weekend called The Foundation For A Better Life . The Foundation is a non-profit organization de...

Ashley loves plants and flowers. From the first days she was able to wobble across our yard, she has headed straight for bushes and flower...

This past weekend, Ashley and I had three very different encounters with teenagers/young adults. The contrast between each encounter was so...

I participated in a person-centered planning session yesterday with my 17 year old daughter, Jessica and several other people who are intere...

“She’s not a pretty baby”, the social worker told me for the third time. “Her left eye is at least twice the size of her right. Are you su...

During the 1950’s and 1960’s, children with disabilities were routinely sent to live in institutions. Most had some sort of developmental di...

Today, my every thought and prayer is with my friend, Lynnette and her beautiful daughter, Brooke. Brooke is scheduled for surgery today – ...

Systems change – a term that is being tossed around by a great many government agencies and organizations that support people with disabilit...