Getting the Equal Rights Your Child Deserves with School System Inclusion
When my son entered the school system, I had to fight for his rights to be mainstreamed due to his disability. My local county school district had a Pre-K program for four year olds. This classroom included a teacher and a paraprofessional and 20 children. He was...
read moreThe One Thing You Should Never Forget To Pack When Traveling With a Wheelchair
My son and I have been traveling together for a quarter of a century and it has truly been a learning curve. You see, he uses an electric wheelchair to get around and it is up to me to make sure the trips run smoothly. I have to make certain our necessities are...
read moreHearing the Diagnosis: Thoughts on My Child Having Spinal Muscular Atrophy
On February 25, 1991 I was at my son's first birthday party and he still was not walking on his own. I can remember him trying to take a few steps, but his legs would buckle from beneath him and his head would smack the ground. I would try to catch him, but the...
read moreMy Trail of Life
As you can see in my logo, it's shows a likeness of my son and I. This sums my life up in a nutshell. I am a single mother of a son who happens to have a form of Muscular Dystrophy called Spinal Muscular Atrophy and uses an electric wheelchair. His whole life I have...
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