Self-advocacy doesn’t ocurr in a vacuum. If circumstances were different would you advocate for someone elses child if your child didn’t have a disability? What tools do you utilize to advocate for your child? Tweet #fighting4answrs
I am in class today, Partners in Piolicymaking. If you advocate for yourself or anyone else, you really should see about enrolling in Partners. I was reading a quote today, “You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.” – Charles Ketterling The way I see it is our school district is focused on how David used to be, yesterday, not how is he tomorrow or today given the time he spent in placement in the residential facility. We need to get them to focus on what can be, not what was. How do I do that? How do we do that? Tweet #fighting4answrs
That is the question the psychiatrist asked me today. You have your youngest who pushes limits and senses by verbal and physical action, and you have boys with autism who don’t tolerate the sensory input. “Don’t all children deserve to be loved?” was my response. “Isn’t it worth it to see them smile and return a hug? ” We are met with daily challenges, heck, any parent is. But as parents of children with special needs, our daily challenges are a cut above the rest. Do we hesitate? Do we turn tail and run away? No. We embrace the challenges and welcome the new day. We welcome each new day with the hope that there will be a breakthrough of some kind that will allow our child to have a glimmer of success that they might not have had before this. As parents of special children, we also know that