For a month and a half, I’ve been conducting almost daily interviews for my work in progress, Different Dream Parenting: Raising a Child with Special Needs. All the interviews have been with experts in the special needs community: half of them being professionals and half being parents of kids with special needs.

Meet Nancy Woleslagle

Nancy Woleslagle is one of the parents interviewed. Even though she’s a very busy mother of five (with one more on the way), two of whom have special needs, she offered to share her expertise. And I’m so glad she did. She had excellent advice about dealing with insurance companies and brought several support organizations and websites to my attention. Different Dream Parenting will be a better book because of her contribution.

Meet Lillian and Phillip

Nancy’s daughter Lillian, age 9, and her twin, Phillip, were born prematurely. Both have special needs related to their early arrivals, but Lillian’s are more severe. Because she has a trach, she qualifies for in home health care which is a great help to the family. But finding home health care agencies whose philosophy and workers meshed well with their family required careful screening. In the process, Nancy developed a list of questions that she agreed to share.

Questions for Home Health Care Agencies

Thanks to Nancy’s generosity, you can benefit from her family’s experience. Just click on In Home Nursing Care Questions to download her questions. If you have questions to add to Nancy’s list, please share them by leaving a comment. I will continue to compile questions while researching Different Dream Parenting and would love to include your ideas in the book.

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