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Registration Open: Parents Weekend- Raising Children with Disabilities with Disability Pride

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Registration Open: Parents Weekend- Raising Children with Disabilities with Disability Pride

Registration and payment for the 2024 Raising Children with Disabilities: With Disability Pride. A Weekend of Learning and…

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Drawing of a plant in a pot. There is a drawing of a watering can pouring hearts on the plant. In the corner, there is the text "stop harming

The Harmful Impact of Using the Word “Crazy” with Children: A Call for Change

Dear individuals who work with children, Please stop using the word “crazy”. I am saying this from a…

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[Image Description: Circle with the text 2023 Adoption Advocate Best Adoption-Friendly Workplace, Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, inside. The circle also includes the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption Logo a white sketch of a person with their arms in the air in the center of a heart. End Image Description]

MDRC Recognized as an Adoption Advocate by the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption

  Lansing, 11/8/2023: Michigan Disability Rights Coalition (MDRC) is thrilled to announce its recognition as an Adoption Advocate…

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A person with dark brown skin smiling in a tan and white polka dot shirt wearing glasses and white headphones sitting in a black wheelchair typing with a lounge space blurred in the background.

Make Your Voice Heard – Hearing Loss

This past week, I had the opportunity to participate in the Hearing Loss Association of America’s (HLAA) Annual…

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Make Your Voice Heard – Hearing Loss

By Kathryn Wyeth This past week, I had the opportunity to participate in the Hearing Loss Association of…

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A Fidgetarium of Possibility

One of my minor autistic traits is fidgeting. When I was a kid, I had to learn how…

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Access to Facebook

It is so wonderful to see advances in the social media platforms in recent years to make content…

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Woman using AT to work hands-free with puff device control, including voice control and additional asisstive devices besides computer

The Future of AT in Employment

Using AT to gain employment and support work over a lifetime has been a goal of our community…

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Zoomsgiving: Connecting While Decreasing Social Isolation & Loneliness

By Jen Mullins, BS, CTRS, MATP Staff When I think about Thanksgiving, I think about connecting with my…

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AT to Help with Wearing a Mask!

[Image description: the featured image of this video is of Jen Mullins, a white woman who has her…

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Book Scents and E-Reader Sense (Part 2)

By Jen Gosett, BS, CTRS, MATP Staff Have you ever tried…

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Me next to my husband who is holding our son who is trying to eat his foot. We are next to the baptismal font. Our minister is crouched down in front of it talking to the congregation's children who are gathered around to hear about the meaning of baptism and to welcome Theo.

Looking Back

By Aimee Sterk, LMSW, MATP Staff Our son, Theodore, was…

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two women, one using a wheelchair, work on a strawbale bed with tomato cages sticking out of the top

Go Green!

By Aimee Sterk, LMSW I’m behind this year… way behind….

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A collection of works related to special education including IEF, Child, Appropriate

The Need for Transformation in Special Education

I became directly involved in special education advocacy in 1981…

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Device that attaches to the handle of lawn tools, allowing you to put your arm through a ring and to a grip that lower down on the handle

Adventures in Lawn Work

Spring is finally here!  It’s my first spring in my…

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Woman holding a book to her face. Text in picture says: Happiness is the smell of a new book.

Book Scents and E-Reader Sense (Part 1)

By Jen Gosett, BS, CTRS, MATP Staff I am a person…

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