Pipecleaner Dreams

I was intially very excited when Ashley came home with a packet of information from our state agency, the Department for the Blind and Visio...

I've written several posts in the past about a technique for teaching a person with deafblindness to speak. That technique is called Ta...

VAAPVI, the Virginia Association for Parents of the Visually Impaired had planned a beeping Easter Egg hunt for the weekend before Easter. ...

Though they cannot hear or speak, and they are the Israeli actors in the Nalaga'at full-length, professional stage performance. Their u...

(Photo by Keith Beaty of the Toronto Star) As a mother, I dream of all my children finding that special someone with whom to share their liv...

It seems to me that technology to assist people with disabilities has really taken a huge step forward recently. Almost every day, I read a...

Although it rarely happens now, not too long ago the only reports that came home from school about Ashley were ‘bad news’ reports. Most of ...

Our children grow and mature right before our eyes, but sometimes we might miss some of the small details. Ashley reminded me of one of tho...

This past weekend was the third annual Dreamcatcher’s Holiday Party. Dreamcatchers is a statewide support group, established many years ago...

The belief in the inner beauty of each and every human being is at the heart of L’Arche…and at the heart of being human… We do not discover ...

As the parent of a deafblind child, I guess I should be angry that Abigail Breslin has been cast to play the role of Helen Keller in the Bro...

That statement in the title of this post was made by Nancy Starnes, director of external affairs for the Washington-based National Organizat...

When Ashley was in 3rd grade, I contracted with Dr. Harvey Mar from Columbia University to do an independent evaluation of Ashley. Dr. Mar ...

This past weekend I spent time with some of our Dreamcatcher families. Dreamcatchers is a state-wide support group for families whose lives...

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...

Every year the last week of June is devoted to one thing - recognition of people who are deafblind. While the purpose of Deaf-Blind Awarenes...

While I surfed the web this weekend, I found two stories I wanted to share. One is very good news, and one if very bad news. First the goo...

Ashley has been a student in our school district for 10 years. And for 10 years I have had to fight to get her the support she needed to ap...

If a surgery existed that might help your child’s disabilities, would you agree to it? Parents of children who are deaf agree to cochlear i...

A few weeks ago, I asked my geeky and brilliant son to invent a way for deaf people to play a piano and to ‘hear’ what they were playing. I...