by Jolene | Aug 30, 2012 | Advocacy, Special Needs Parenting
Advocate. Not the word that springs to mind when most young dads and moms describe their job as parents. But advocacy is a way of life for parents of kids with special needs. And in the past two days, Michelle Bartlett had given us a picture of life as a special needs...
by Jolene | Aug 29, 2012 | Advocacy, Special Needs Parenting
Advocate is not part of the job description most of us imagined when we thought about becoming parents. But as Michelle Bartlett shared yesterday in Part 1 of her story, parents of kids with special needs learn advocacy skills very quickly. Today, Michelle talks about...
by Jolene | Aug 28, 2012 | Advocacy, Special Needs Parenting
Becoming advocates for kids with special needs was not part of our parenting job description when we were expecting our first child. It probably wasn’t part of yours, and it wasn’t part of John and Michelle Bartlett’s either. But after their son Jake...