by Laura Spiegel | Sep 8, 2020 | How-Tos
We Can Role Model How To Process Feelings in a Healthy Way We can role model how to process feelings in a healthy way to our kids with special needs and disabilities says guest blogger Laura Spiegel. In this post she explains both how and why to make this practice...
by Jolene | Jun 26, 2017 | Advocacy, How-Tos, Special Needs Parenting
How to Raise a Health Care Self-Advocate Once upon a time, my husband and I were our son’s sole health care advocates. For the first 4 years of his life, we faced numerous life and death decisions concerning surgeries, medical tests, and treatment. After those...
by Jolene | Aug 14, 2013 | Advocacy, Special Needs Parenting
Self-Advocacy for Kids with Special Needs Self-advocacy in kids with special needs is a skill parents need to foster. But we often overlook doing so for several reasons. We’re in the habit of advocating for them. Our identity is wrapped up in our advocacy...