Ahhhh, the best of both worlds.  Wouldn’t it be great if we could take the best parts of the general education system and combine these with the best parts of special education?  Would we not get one heck of an educational system?  One which would significantly meet more kids’ needs and cost far less money? [...]

Recently, I was talking with a friend of mine, and she was telling me about her son’s wrestling match the night before.  She told me how the match was just like any match, except that all the teams were asked in advance to stay and cheer for a student who was going to wrestle after [...]

Yesterday, I was contemplating calling the school and asking if I had to have an IEP.  Wasn’t trying to be difficult, just curious why we have to jump through so many hoops to get the care our kids need with disabilities? Which got me thinking.  What would your child’s education look like if we didn’t [...]

Last week was a great week. My 11-yr old daughter with Down syndrome had her check up at the Down’s clinic in Indianapolis and it was a great appointment. In fact, she is doing so well, we do not have to return for a year. Over the years in her very short life, we have [...]

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Well, it has been a few months since my husband and I decided to return our Medicaid Waiver to the State of Indiana. Up to that point of time, our daughter was one of the lucky 17,000 – 18,000 people in the state to have one. Unfortunately, there are an equal number who are waiting [...]

The other day, my friend and I were out shopping.  We came to an intersection in Indianapolis, where for years, I have watched this particular house get updated and remodeled – its front yard impaled with a for sale sign every few years.  On this snowy, cold day, it looked especially bad, having certainly been [...]

My 14-yr old daughter has been studying Martin Luther King, Jr. this week at school.  In the process of learning about Dr. King, they spent quite a bit of time dissecting his famous speech, “I Have a Dream”. Their assignment for the class was to write their own “I Have a Dream” speech, by sharing [...]