This two-part interview was conducted by Courtney Williams from Disability Life. Part Two is below. PART TWO CW— SPEAKING OF SALES, HOW ARE BOOK SALES GOING? MK— I’m nowhere close to that hundred thousand copies, I’ll tell you that...
Read More Book about disabilities- Interview with Special Stories author Mike Kelly. This two-part interview was conducted by Courtney Williams from Disability Life. Part One is below. PART ONE CW— FIRST OFF, CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR BOOK. I READ IT AND...
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A seventeen-year-old high school senior with a winning smile and short brown hair that throws off reddish glints, Donald (not his real name) has Down syndrome. He is a young man of few words and, like most guys, keeps his feelings to himself...
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I’ve come to find out that there’s a double standard for kids with disabilities. While there are a great many people out in the business world who will bend over backward to accommodate my students at work, I’ve come to find out...
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Classified with intellectual disabilities, 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 work...
Read More 5 Things Parents Can Do To Help Their Disabled Teen by Mike Kelly ONE: Get your son or daughter with challenges exposed to their community through a vocational experience when the child is 11, 12 or 13-years-old. This could either be...
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5 Great Jobs for Teens With Disabilities by Mike Kelly For some reason, society has unreasonably low expectations of youth with disabilities and a propensity to stereotype. In fact, there’s a prevailing and widespread belief—sometimes even...
Read More 5 TIPS To Help Get Your Disabled Teen A First Job by Mike Kelly It’s not so easy to get jobs for youth with disabilities. Because our society had become so impersonalized, most every job seeker is forced to go online to apply for a job...
Read More Gianna is bespectacled fifteen-year-old sophomore in high school with thick and wavy dark brown hair that falls below her shoulders. She has bright amber eyes and a razor thin build. Though Gianna has Cerebral Palsy, she lives on the sunny side...
Read More Tall and slender with a wide smile, brown hair and pale blue eyes, Connor is a movie-star-handsome seventeen-year-old high school junior that girls his age would typically want to date. Because Connor has Cerebral Palsy, cannot walk, and uses a...
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We’ve all seen the 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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BELOW READ WHAT SOME NOTABLE INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS SAY ABOUT THE NEW BOOK “SPECIAL STORIES…” WHICH FEATURES CHILDREN WITH INTELLECTUAL CHALLENGES “In life you meet a lot of very interesting people. Some are takers...
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