Kathleen Basi is a stay-at-home mom, freelance writer, flute and voice teacher, liturgical composer, choir director, natural family planning teacher, scrapbooker, sometime-chef and budding disability rights activist. She puts her juggling skills on display at www.kathleenbasi.com Kathleen is here today to talk about her daughter’s journey with Down Syndrome and the importance of integrating special needs children [...]
You Just Can’t Make This Stuff Up (A Tuberous Sclerosis Birth Story)
Helen is proof of how awesome social media really is. After coming across a post of mine on StumbleUpon, we started chatting on the blog’s Facebook page. In fact, this entire awareness event came to fruition from that conversation. Helen Bradfield is a special education teacher and a transition specialist in New Jersey. In addition [...]
For the Sweetest Little Dude (Autism)
I first had the pleasure of meeting Mama Bennie on Twitter where we started chatting about how we kinda-sorta-maybe-somewhat live near each other. (Okay, so it’s about a 2-hour distance. I was still pretty excited. It doesn’t take much.) Usually you can find her on her blog, Random Mama Brain, but today Terry is joining [...]
Disabled? You? NAH . . .
Gen is a stay at home, homeschooling mom to her five daughters. That alone gives her my utmost respect because there is no.way.I.could.do.that. But Gen deserves even more props for talking to us today about disabilities that aren’t so obvious. Gen’s disabilities include hearing difficulties, Fibromyalgia, and Rheumatoid Arthritis. Sometimes these disabilities are referred to as “invisible”. [...]
MS: Never Judge a Book By its Cover
Crystal is the voice behind Next Generation Home Schooler, where she blogs about her adventures as a home schooling mama. Her site is a fantastic resource for home schoolers looking for creative project ideas! Today Crystal is talking about what it was like growing up the daughter of a disabled parent. Her mother lives with [...]
Changing the Perspective of Disabilities - National Disability Awareness Month
October is a lot of things: a time for falling leaves, football, and bonfires. Breast Cancer Awareness month. Halloween. Oktoberfest. Fire prevention. It’s a busy month. October is also Disability Awareness Month, which as I’m sure is pretty obvious, is something that hits close to home. This month, Crippled Girl is serving as a home [...]
A call for guest posters
Hey loves, In the next few weeks, I’m hoping to contact bloggers (or anyone who I can find on the interwebs) who is affected by a disability, for an upcoming project I’m planning. The disability can be physical, mental, and anything in between, and can affect the blogger personally, or someone in their family (preferably [...]
writers and bloggers (a guest post)
It’s been 18 months since I graduated from college with a writing degree, and transitioned into the title of a “blogger”. For me, there are huge differences between the two, which resulted in a big change in my personal writing style. Today I’m talking about the the writer vs. the blogger in me, over at [...]
5 Things that Drive Ben Crazy
After telling Ben about a writing prompt from last week, I asked Ben to name five things I do that drive him crazy. And then I asked him if he would be willing to write them down to share on my blog. Ben’s answers are in black, my comments after reading his answers are in [...]
I can't believe it, either
. . . but Ben is making his “debut” on my blog tomorrow as a guest poster. If you read MamaKat’s blog, you might recall that one of her writing prompts last week was about what drives your spouse crazy? Tomorrow I’ll be sharing the top 5 things I do that drives Ben crazy, straight [...]
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