by Jolene | Dec 21, 2011 | Advocacy, Special Needs Parenting
Guest blogger Ellen Stumbo has been thinking about an issue important to parents of kids with special needs: how to be an effective advocate. In today’s post, she shares about how her perception of effective advocacy has changed and mentions a good book put out...
by Jolene | Oct 21, 2011 | Grief, Spiritual Support
As was mentioned yesterday, October is Down Syndrome Awareness Month. In honor of the occasion, guest blogger Ellen Stumbo wrote a two part series about how she reacted when her daughter was diagnosed with the syndrome. In Part 1, she described her initial reaction to...
by Jolene | Oct 20, 2011 | Grief, Spiritual Support
October is Down Syndrome Awareness Month. So guest blogger Ellen Stumbo chose to write this two part series to describe what it was like to learn her second child would live with Down syndrome. Today, Ellen shares her initial reaction. Down Syndrome Awareness: A...
by Jolene | Oct 3, 2011 | School/Education, Special Needs Parenting
Guest blogger Ellen Stumbo’s three girls went to school this fall. Each daughter responded differently to the experience, partly because of their personalities, partly because of their ages, and partly because back to school is different for kids with special...
by Jolene | Aug 24, 2011 | School/Education, Special Needs Parenting
Yesterday, you met Amy Dunaway. She’s a mom who’s become an expert in the area of special needs homeschooling. In the previous post, she introduced her family and told about how her blog www.onajoyfuljourney.com came about. In Part 2 of our interview, she...