Pipecleaner Dreams

The video below has been making the rounds of Facebook the last couple of days, and it is absolutely wonderful. Maddox and her Mom say so m...

Want to read something to make your day? Want to feel the joy of true inclusion? Want to be inspired by someone who feels he is too young ...

I love the colors of Christmas! Great picture, Chip!

I may be way out in left field with this post, but it sometimes seems to me that some parents of children with disabilities seem jealous tha...

Many years ago, I would go shopping or out to a restaurant without a thought about accessibility. I would walk up curbs without thinking ab...

Please take a moment to read the piece below, and then visit the ADAPT blog, Defending Our Freedom . Also, at the end of this piece is a sh...

When my family goes anywhere, we usually don’t go quietly or unnoticed. We’re not Kate Plus Eight, but everyone’s attention is usually dive...

Because of my school district's lackluster performance at including students with disabilities in extracurricular and general education ...

Today I am thankful for the Virginia Board for People with Disabilities and their new campaign... Today, in my state (Virginia), people are ...

While I was out running errands this past weekend, something struck me as strange. I didn't see any adults with disabilities. In fact,...

I wouldn’t call my family the most musical of families. The kids have had to endure my bad singing since they were very little. Otherwise ...

About a year ago, I posted a blog about Walgreens Drug Stores and their commitment to hiring people with disabilities. In that earlier blo...

This Fourth of July I’ve been thinking a lot about the word ‘freedom’ as it pertains to my children with significant disabilities. It’s not...

Amy and I went to see the movie “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” last Friday night. The movie was not very good, and I will have no problem “For...

By now I should be immune to the stares when Ashley and I are out in public. Ashley's left eye is very, very small and is a strange, cl...

Esbee at the Life in Forsyth blog sent me this link , and asked what I thought about it. The story is about parents of children with autis...

Many gains have been made in my community around physical accessibility. Even my neighborhood, probably because it has an elementary school...

I’ve written once before about community-based instruction (CBI) trips that our children with significant disabilities have as part of thei...

The words are all the right ones. The voice is the voice from the top. Why then do our children have to fight for their every right to an ...

My school district is not big on inclusion for children with significant disabilities – not even for the ‘easy’ subjects like art and music....