Book about disability empowerment- Teen with Cerebral Palsy in nontraditional job Tall and slender with a wide smile, brown hair, and pale blue eyes, Connor is a movie-star-handsome seventeen-year-old that high school girls his age would...
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Book about disability empowerment- 5 Things Parents Can Do To Help Their Disabled Teen 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...
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Book about disability empowerment- Abe Lincoln was right! 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...
Read More Book about disability empowerment- 5 Great Jobs for Teens With Disabilities For some reason, much of society has unreasonably low expectations of youth with disabilities along with a propensity to stereotype. In fact, there’s a prevailing...
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Book about disability empowerment- Interesting book features with kids learning and attention issues The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention state that roughly 1 in 7 American children have a developmental disability—over 3 million...
Read More Book about disability empowerment- 5 Things Parents Can Do To Help Their Disabled Teen 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...
Read More Special Stories- Teen with Down syndrome and job coach share special moment 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...
Read More Special Stories- Special Stories of generosity In the second half of my book—my adventures working in the disabilities field—I talk about how multimillionaire celebrities I reached out to demanded tens of thousands of dollars to briefly appear at...
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Special Stories- Spotlight on Idaho Authors FROM THE IDAHO STATESMAN (www.idahostatesman.com) SPOTLIGHT ON IDAHO AUTHORS “Special Stories: Short Stories on Youth with Disabilities and My Adventures Working in the Disabilities Field” by Mike...
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Special Stories- Teen with challenges shows her abilities- 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...
Read More Special Stories- Teen with challenges shows her abilities- PART 1 of 2 PART 1 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...
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Book about kids with disabilities- Success stories of youth with disabilities 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...
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