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Read more about the article S8 E9 | How to Talk About Disability with Carrie Hahn

S8 E9 | How to Talk About Disability with Carrie Hahn

  • Post published:January 28, 2025
  • Post category:Disability/Family/Parenting/Podcast
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Apple YouTube Spotify More!  Is disability a tragedy? Are disabled people “inspiring”? The language we use often reveals our assumptions about disability. Carrie Hahn, a pediatric speech-language pathologist and mother,…

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Read more about the article Belonging Begins With an Invitation

Belonging Begins With an Invitation

  • Post published:January 24, 2025
  • Post category:Disability/Down Syndrome/Family
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One of the most heartbreaking aspects of being a mother is watching our kids get excluded. I’ve seen it at times for all three of them, but exclusion happens most…

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Read more about the article Discouraged and Stuck? Let’s Reimagine!

Discouraged and Stuck? Let’s Reimagine!

  • Post published:January 22, 2025
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I have felt discouraged and stuck. If I looked back through my journals, I’d find similar feelings detailed over the years, but that statement isn’t mine. A parent of a…

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Read more about the article Goal Setting: From A to B to Z

Goal Setting: From A to B to Z

  • Post published:January 16, 2025
  • Post category:Disability/Down Syndrome/Family
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I used to hate setting goals for Penny. It felt like I was measuring her worth based on how quickly she achieved them. Now I see goal setting—for her and…

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Read more about the article Why Rachel Handlin’s Art Exhibit Prompted Me to Change My Prepositions

Why Rachel Handlin’s Art Exhibit Prompted Me to Change My Prepositions

  • Post published:January 10, 2025
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Happy New Year! We’ve taken down our tree and put away the gnomes and nutcrackers. The kids are back at school. We reviewed the highlights of the past year as…

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Baking at Her Own Pace

  • Post published:January 6, 2025
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Penny wants to work on cooking and baking skills this year. Usually, we are rushing around, so it is hard to let her work at her own pace. But over…

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Dancing Again | Nutcracker 2024

  • Post published:December 17, 2024
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(Keep scrolling for video!) | Our daughter Penny danced for twelve years at Fineline Theatre Arts, which included many years of performing scenes from the Nutcracker. We moved this year,…

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Read more about the article Step by Step by Step | Increasing Independence

Step by Step by Step | Increasing Independence

  • Post published:December 9, 2024
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Step by step by step. For our daughter Penny, who has Down syndrome, the path toward adulthood and increasing independence involves many more deliberate and supported steps than it will…

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Read more about the article Disability’s Beautiful Complication of Human Flourishing

Disability’s Beautiful Complication of Human Flourishing

  • Post published:November 23, 2024
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I’ve written a lot from the perspective of a white, affluent, educated, able-bodied, married woman about the ways in which my demographic group has rates of anxiety and depression. Similarly,…

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Culture’s Good-Life Mirage

  • Post published:November 23, 2024
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How do we decide who has a life worth living? I thought about this question as I listened to bioethicist Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, PhD, tell me about a group of friends.…

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