PART 2 OF 2 During my next visit to Charleston the following December, I was once again contracted by Lindsay’s parents to help their daughter with a new project. Her parents reported that she was still working well with Carly at The...
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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 there are even more that won’t. These folks always seem to watch my students more...
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NOTE: The names of all students have been changed SHANNON– After acting part-time for seven years on the hit TV show Sesame Street, when Shannon turned thirteen she was told by producers that she was no longer the adorable little kid with...
Read More A sixteen-year-old high school junior, Ralphie (not his real name) has Down syndrome, autism, and is deaf in one ear. He is four-feet-ten-inches tall and, like many young men with Down syndrome, is stocky. He has a difficult time expressing...
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While at dinner with a group of friends one evening, enjoying a light and convivial conversation, a buddy of mine began prattling on about how hard his job is as a pharmaceutical salesman for a multibillion dollar global drug company. He...
Read More Society often has unreasonably low expectations of youth with disabilities and a propensity to stereotype. In fact, there’s a prevailing and widespread belief that kids with disabilities pretty much have four career options: 1) Bag...
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BELOW READ WHAT SOME NOTABLE INDIVIDUALS SAY ABOUT THE NEW BOOK “SPECIAL STORIES…” “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...
Read More 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...
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ABLED or DISABLED? You decide… A man was born with Cerebral Palsy. A man became afflicted with an ALS-like (Lou Gehrig’s disease) motor neuron disease, rendering him speechless and without use of his limbs, confining him to a...
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It’s rare to see a suburban 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 protective parents keeps too many...
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Posted by Jim Duncan / PR Monthly 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...
Read More “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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