Back to School, Back to Feeling Like You Don’t Fit In?
It’s so not easy going back to school after doing all the things you love in the summer. It can be super hard going back, especially if you use a wheelchair. Maybe you’re super lucky and you go to a...
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Travelling Blues
A couple of weeks ago I traveled to Germany for a distributor meeting and an exhibition, and ran into some problems at the Dusseldorf airport. I have been lobbying (thanks Marty Ball) ever since to get...
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“Labeled” Special Education
“So what happens when she turns three? Some other parents say I might not want her placed in Special Education, because it’s so hard to get out once you’re in.” Oh, NO. My heart sinks. Who is saying...
View ArticleDo You Mind When People Ask?
Being in a wheelchair, you just can’t get away from the inevitable question – “What happened to you?” Out to eat, at school, even in the parking lot, no matter where you are, there will always be...
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Podcast 94: Jessica Cox – A Motivational Speaker, World’s Only Armless Pilot
In podcast 94, Tiffiny is joined by Jessica Cox, an amazing woman born without arms who’s done stunning things in life, including becoming the world’s first licensed pilot without arms and the only...
View ArticlePodcast 95: Scott Rains, inclusive travel expert
In podcast 95, Tiffiny is joined by inclusive travel expert, Scott Rains, a quadriplegic who’s been hired by tourism businesses and governments all around the world to teach them how they can become...
View Article‘DitzAbled Princess’ comic about women; disability
Move over able-bodied folks! ‘DitzAbled Princess’ is here to fill a funny page void.” How can you not help but love this? DitzAbled Princess is a web-based comic series made for women with disabilities...
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Spotting Seizures
An email arrived from a patient’s parent the other day about her two-year-old child who, “has been having periods of spaciness at school… like she will just look off…. But yesterday she was play play...
View ArticleBridging the Divide Between Children of Differing Abilities
Dear Parents of Typical Developing Children, I’m writing to you even though this is similar to things I have read before. I am unsure that you would read this blog for special needs, but with the...
View ArticleSpecial Education: A Parent & Former Teacher’s View
Jennifer Thayer is a former Early Childhood Education Teacher with a unique perspective on kids with special needs. Having taught them in a classroom setting, and now parenting a child requiring...
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From the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services
In August I had the opportunity to hear Michael Yudin, Assistant Secretary for the United States Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services (OSERS) speak at the PACER center, my local...
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How I Roll: Wheelchair How-to Site
A Site for ‘Green’ Paraplegics The brainchild of Jacob, a 30 year old paraplegic and lifer resident from West Palm Beach, Florida, HowIRoll.com, founded in 2011, may be in the running for one of the...
View ArticleDiary of a Kindergarten Mom of a Special Boy
As school starts across the country, I watch as friends post pictures taken sending their little ones…babies, off to Kindergarten. Before I was a parent, I always thought, why the misty-eyed, tearful...
View ArticleCan’t Seem to Keep a Good PCA Around
Having PCAs in your home is a lot like going to school each day. You have a schedule you need to keep track of just like classes, and it can be quite exhausting. I’ve recently discovered this more and...
View ArticleWheelchairs = Helplessness? Not So
I’ll never forget the one time I was outside a Target on my cell phone. I wasn’t doing anything except talking and sitting there, but apparently I was doing a lot more. In the middle of my conversation...
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