by Joe and Cindi Ferrini | Apr 19, 2021 | Special Needs Parenting, Special needs siblings, Spiritual Growth
The child was about 12 years old and weighed about that many pounds or a few more. As a young high school aged student, I didn’t know how to relate, respond, or inquire about my friends’ sibling that I was seeing—not meeting—for the first time. I’d known my friend for...
by Jonathan McGuire | Oct 14, 2019 | Autism, Hope, Special Needs Parenting
I remember the moment perfectly. I was a counselor and was at a Burger King with a client when I heard the news about the planes hitting the twin towers in New York. The rest of that day, my role was to help my clients process their own fears as the news unfolded;...
by Key Ministry | Apr 3, 2019 | Autism, Challenges, Special Needs Parenting
Living in denial ain’t the way to go.Yes, denial is one of the five stages of grief, introduced back in 1969 by psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, but if we stay too long in the “this isn’t happening” stage the result may be a bigger disaster.Case in point: The...
