We’ve all seen news stories on TV of professional athletes committing crimes or demonstrating other reprehensible behavior. We’ve also read about multi-millionaire professional athletes charging their fans $50 or $100 to sign an...
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Classified with intellectual disabilities (ID), Benson (not his real name) is a friendly fourteen-year-old with an engaging smile and an easy personality. I first met Benson when his mother called me after she read a newspaper article about my...
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How old were you when you got your first job? I’m sure it wasn’t when you were twenty or twenty-two or … never. You likely got your first job when you were in your early teens. That’s what most of us did. We babysat...
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It’s rare to see a fourteen-year-old working these days. The times have changed and priorities have shifted along with the times. A combination of unmotivated and/or overindulged youth coupled with overly-protective parents keeps too many...
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Most presidential historians consider Abraham Lincoln to have been America’s greatest president. Of all the values and principles our 16th president believed in, the idea that an individual should work hard was the one he believed in most...
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“In life you meet a lot of very interesting people. Some are takers and others are givers. Mike Kelly is a giver and he has done so for many years. His work with children with disabilities is admirable. His compilation of stories about...
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I realize that we have to give names to things, but I’m not sure that “disability” or “disabled” should be used to describe human beings. Read the below story about one teen I worked with and let me know how...
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As a society we’ve come a long way since the Americans with Disabilities Act was enacted in 1990. Yet even in this age of disabilities enlightenment, there are still many who remain in the dark when it comes to society recognizing the...
Read More Over the last fifteen years, award-winning transition educator Mike Kelly has worked with hundreds of youth with a wide range of disabilitiess living in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. During that time he has served as an employment...
Read MoreOver the last fifteen years, award-winning transition educator Mike Kelly has worked with hundreds of youth with a wide range of disabilities living throughout New Jersey and Pennsylvania. And thanks to the flexibility of Kelly’s work and...
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Posted by Jim Duncan FOR A DECADE Mike Kelly worked in public relations. And by all accounts, he had a successful career. He plied his trade for national educational companies in a few locations across the country, met interesting people, was...
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