by Joanna French | Jul 12, 2022 | Church Support, Mental Health, Spiritual Development
I am disabled. I am high functioning, but it is still true. My neurodivergence and trauma mingle with my autoimmune condition and make me uniquely disabled. About a year ago, I called one of my friends in tears, just needing help. I cried to her about what I needed....
by Key Ministry | Oct 20, 2021 | Down syndrome, Grief, Hope
Guest blogger Tony D’Orazio shares a poignant excerpt from his book, Down Right Joy.My wife Karen’s dad, Ronald Henry Wolf, was born February 1, 1929, at St. Anne’s Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio. He grew up on E. 77th Street in Cleveland. He was the middle child of three,...
by Key Ministry | Jul 16, 2021 | Down syndrome, Living Life Daily, Special Needs Parenting
Karen had Jacob in the water when he was an infant through a local college program. We decided to have him take swimming lessons when he was about nine years old. His instructor was not a specialist who worked with special needs children. In fact, she may never have...
by Joe and Cindi Ferrini | Dec 21, 2020 | Church, Special Needs Parenting
Inclusion and mainstreaming have long been a back and forth quandary. How inclusive must a classroom be? If the special needs student doesn’t understand numbers, should he or she be in a regular math class? If this student has a buddy to help in an art class, should...
by Key Ministry | Mar 13, 2020 | Challenges, Hope, Special Needs Parenting
Even after many years as a special needs momma, having people say the strangest things to me, this question posed to me last week really caught me off guard. It wasn’t so much the question, “How can you smile?” but the fact that it was posed by another special needs...
