When I agreed to the Parent-to-Parent match with the parents and grandparents of a toddler with cerebral palsy, I wasn’t expecting to meet old friends for the first time. It doesn’t matter if you’re the “supporting parent” or the “supported parent,” there’s something...
Our daughter, Jane, is a Kansas girl who met and fell in love with a young man, John, she met at K-State when he was a foreign exchange student working on his Master’s Degree and she was a senior. John works for a company in Switzerland, which is what took them to...
Written by Kathleen Carney at age thirteen. She is sister of Neil Carney, who was then five years old and has autism. Have you ever worked so hard for something and finally got it? That’s what happened to Neil and my mom. Neil is my 5-year-old autistic brother...
Written by James Harris-Beaudry Take one good look at James and Jared Zielinski and you may notice some obvious physical differences in them, but get to know them and you will find out just how normal they are. James, who is 15 years old and will be a sophomore in...
I magine speeding down a wet slippery street at 60 miles per hour and the car spinning out of control, crashing head-on into a tree. Imagine being pulled out of the car by a stranger who lays you in the snow while your cousin who is your best friend has to be cut out...
