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The IEP Meeting Every Child With a Disability Deserves

  • Post published:May 14, 2022
  • Post category:Disability/Down Syndrome/Parenting
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Peter and I both cried at Penny’s annual meeting to discuss her IEP (Individualized Education Plan) goals.  We cried because we were so overwhelmed with pride in her and gratitude…

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Abortion and People With Disabilities

  • Post published:May 9, 2022
  • Post category:Current Events/Disability/Down Syndrome
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Last week’s leak of a draft of a Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade has people talking (yelling?) about abortion all over again. I wrote last week…

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Hope Heals: Partnership of Hope and Healing

  • Post published:May 5, 2022
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Last week, I had the honor of spending 24 hours with the board and staff and co-founders of Hope Heals.  The time reminded me of many truths, including that the…

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Trapped by “Able”

  • Post published:May 2, 2022
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"Human beings need to be rescued from seeing themselves as fundamentally ‘able.’” “It is the experience of one’s self as ‘able’ in comparison to others that is fundamentally problematic for…

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Read more about the article Can Disability and Blessing Go Hand in Hand?
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Can Disability and Blessing Go Hand in Hand?

  • Post published:April 18, 2022
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Can disability and blessing go hand in hand?   For a long time, I didn’t think so. And I still don’t understand how and when our genetic codes and bodies…

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TIME: How Disability Changed What Easter Means to My Family

  • Post published:April 16, 2022
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I wrote an essay for TIME that came out today: How Disability Changed What Easter Means to My Family. As I write in this essay, when our daughter Penny was…

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Down Syndrome Community…16 Years After Penny Was Born

  • Post published:April 12, 2022
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When Penny was three weeks old, we got a call from a woman in town who had a teenager with Down syndrome. She was the head of the local Down…

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Why You Should Watch CODA

  • Post published:April 8, 2022
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Penny was the first person in our family to watch CODA, the Best-Picture winning film which doubles as a coming-of-age story and a reflection on life in a family as…

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“I Don’t Want Anyone to ‘Fix’ My Kid”

  • Post published:April 1, 2022
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I listened to Heather Kirn Lanier and Bishop Curry in a beautiful conversation about disability and parenting and what it means to believe that we each are beloved as we…

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Interview With Penny for World Down Syndrome Day

  • Post published:March 21, 2022
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Penny, March 21 is World Down Syndrome Day. It’s a day to celebrate the lives of people like you, who were born with Down syndrome. Can you start by telling…

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