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 that youth with disabilities pretty much have four job options if they...
Read More A tall and slim strawberry blonde, Kelsie (not her real name) is a seventeen-year-old high school junior born with Spina bifida, a congenital disorder caused by the incomplete closing of the embryonic neural tube. In addition to her Spina bifida...
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The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention state that roughly 1 in 7 American children have a developmental disability—over 3 million kids nationwide. Because of that number, one would think that there would be many books prominently...
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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...
Read More 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 ENJOYED IT. YOU HAD ME LAUGHING, CRYING, THINKING—A BUNCH OF EMOTIONS. WELL...
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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—even sometimes within the educational establishment—that youth with...
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In the second section of my book I talk about how multimillionaire celebrities I reached out to demanded tens of thousands of dollars to briefly appear at charity events I had conceived and organized benefiting individuals with disabilities, and...
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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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PART 1 OF 2 For many years people have debated which fighting style is superior. Boxers argued they would knock out wrestlers. Wrestlers claimed they’d defeat boxers after bringing the fight to the ground. Karate practitioners, kickboxers, tae...
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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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...
Read More PART 1 OF 2 Due to the flexibility of my job and my wife’s work—combined with our desire to travel and embark upon new adventures—I was able to build a small caseload of students in Charleston, South Carolina each winter. During my...
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