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...
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Over the last fifteen years, award-winning transition educator Mike Kelly has worked with hundreds of youth with a wide range of disabilities living across America. During that time he has served as an employment specialist, job coach, event...
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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...
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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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From the Idaho Statesman SPOTLIGHT ON IDAHO AUTHORS “Special Stories: Short Stories on Youth with Disabilities and My Adventures Working in the Disabilities Field” by Mike Kelly; Vendue Books ($19.99 pbk/$6.99 e-book) Travel with award-winning...
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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...
Read More 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...
Read More A few years ago I was wandering around a large chain bookstore, looking for books that told the stories of individuals with disabilities. Since I was working with kids with disabilities for a living, I was curious to see what was out there. Not...
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Special Stories, a book about youth with disabilities, includes stories on kids with ADD/ADHD and learning disabilities.
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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This article originally appeared on Disabled World’s website: https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/publications/special-stories.php Over the last fifteen years, award-winning transition educator Mike Kelly has worked with hundreds of...
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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...
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