by Jolene | Jul 10, 2019 | Advocacy, Special Needs Parenting
Hello Noon, a California-based band, released a music video done in collaboration with Special Olympics athletes. Stephen, who plays guitar and performs vocals for Hello Noon, explains how the Run Free video came into being. When Stephen Spies, guitarist and singer...
by Jolene | Jul 3, 2019 | Advocacy, Special Needs Parenting
Special needs families can be grateful to live in the USA. It’s true, even in this time of contentious politics and dissatisfaction with our government. On this day before Independence Day, here’s the quick list I scribbled down without breaking into a...
by Jolene | Jun 19, 2019 | Advocacy
Disability advocates, myself included, are people of passion. Our passion springs from a deep desire to improve the lives of those we love and the well-being of the overall disability community. Recently I provided a Christian organization I admire with information...
by Jolene | Mar 20, 2019 | Advocacy, Special Needs Parenting
He’s my dad, not a disability. Those words have been rattling in my brain this March, the month in which my father died 22 years ago. My thoughts have moved beyond the deep, personal grief I felt in 1997. Now my wish is to describe Harlan Stratton who, along...
by Kristen Horton | Jan 31, 2019 | Advocacy, Special Needs Parenting
Our Expected but Blessed EA/TEF Journey is guest blogger Kristen Horton’s follow up to Our Unexpected but Blessed EA/TEF Journey which she wrote for EA/TEF Awareness Month in 2018. Please welcome Kristen back to Different Dream and read on for a delightful...
by Jolene | Dec 19, 2018 | Advocacy, Special Needs Parenting
Whenever I got snarky as a kid, my mother had this habit of staring straight at me and saying, “If you don’t have anything good to say, don’t say anything at all.” Her words came to mind as I read the Exodus 14 account of Moses and the...
