Showing posts with label parents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parents. Show all posts
Friday, October 17, 2008

The Backlash Continues, Part 2

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It's ironic that by trying to connect with people dealing with special needs, McCain pissed off so many of them. Christy Everett explai...
Friday, October 3, 2008

Mom Says McCain-Palin Approach Will Devastate Families

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In the Beacon Broadside, Penny Wolfson talks about the challenges her family has met while raising their son with muscular dystrophy, who is...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008

More Parents Speak Out

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Oregon state legislator Sara Gelser, a disability advocate and the mother of a girl with developmental disabilities, examines the candidates...
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Monday, September 22, 2008

What's It Like to Raise a Child with Special Needs? Read This.

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Especially if you do not have a child with special needs, please read this post by Margaret Storey , a history professor at DePaul Universit...
Saturday, September 20, 2008

Alaskan Mom Says Gov. Palin Is No Friend to Special-Needs Families

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I just found this comment to a post I had seen earlier, from Katy. I hope she won't mind me cross-posting it, since she wants to share t...

Christopher Reeve & Sarah Palin: A Father Makes a Case for Stem Cell Research

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Stem cell research is an emotional and often divisive issue that I wasn’t going to raise until I came across this excellent post from Don R...
Tuesday, September 16, 2008

The GOP and the Disabled

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Tom's a dad with two kids -- one with autism and Down Syndrome. I recommend his blog, "Random Thinking," and love his slogan:...
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Monday, September 15, 2008

Working Mom with a Child with Down Syndrome: "I Want to Shriek"

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In the Phoenix New Times, Amy Silverman writes eloquently about raising three children, including one with Down Syndrome, in McCain's ho...

Disability Faculty: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.

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Two distinguished professors at the University of Kansas Beach Center on Disability (and parents of a 41-year-old son who has intellectual d...
Saturday, September 13, 2008

Help Me How?

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A mother of twin boys with special needs writes in a letter to the Kansas City Star that she doubts Gov. Palin or Sen. McCain will do anyth...
Friday, September 12, 2008

People Are Asking Questions

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Was Palin Patronizing Parents ? A letter to the Dallas Morning News. Would McCain/Palin Really Be Advocates for Disabilities ? From the We...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Experienced Mom Says Palin is No Friend to Kids & Adults with Disabilities

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Writing in the Beacon Broadside , Jane Bernstein, who has written several books about raising children with special needs (and the mother of...

Divorced, African American Mother Asks GOP: What About ME?

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If you want a sense of how "regular" moms struggle to raise children, including those with special needs, you must read this post ...
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Trampling the Weak

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Marianne Leonne, whose quadriplegic child died in 2005, recently came across a shirt targeted to hockey players -- and presumably hockey mom...

How to Win the "Stay-At-Home-Mom" Vote

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A mother of a child with autism (and another with a speech delay) advises the candidates how to win the "stay-at-home-mom" vote . ...
Monday, September 8, 2008

A Note from a Republican Mom

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I got this nice note from Barbara, the lead blogger and creator of RepublicansforObama.org : "Thank you so much for putting this blog t...
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Sarah Palin: Lipstick or Lip Service?

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Blogger Emily Elizabeth, who has a 4-year-old daughter with Down Syndrome, has written a well-crafted analysis on Gov. Palin's statemen...
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Disability Advocate Weighs the Facts

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This "non-politically savvy" disability advocate (and mother of a girl with physical and mental challenges) examines the candidate...

"Palin's Pitch to Parents of Disabled Raises Some Doubts"

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From the Wall Street Journal: " Palin's Pitch to Parents Of Disabled Raises Some Doubts: Support Is Pledged, But the GOP Ticket See...

A Perspective from the OTHER Great White North

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Canadian blogger Harold Doherty raises a point I wasn't going to make, but since he states it so well, here goes: "...As the fathe...