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Remove the word “special” from “special needs mom.” Woah! Calm down. Okay, I am at fault. I should know better. My initial sentence risk seeming fighting words. After all, special needs moms largely prove a passionate bunch. May I request a do-over? Thanks for the second chance. Today I will challenge perceptions regarding special needs…
“You just don’t get it.” Probably a commonplace thought among the cerebral palsy community. Sentiment at times geared to parents. Yet writing Off Balanced I realized the phrase converses. You could say I don’t get parenting a child with cerebral palsy. Or, at least I did not growing up. Penning Off Balanced I aimed to…
On National Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day we in the #CPChatNow community put out the welcome mat and presented our second ever focus chat. Rather than inviting an external expert to answer questions, we served as the experts. After all who knows more about cerebral palsy than us? We live with the disability! Anticipation built to…