Our son was diagnosed with developmental and physical disabilities when he was just one month old. Gus was immediately scheduled for physical, occupational and speech therapy, and when I confided my concerns about his lack of progress to my sister Cheryl, she introduced me to a friend of hers who had an eight-year-old daughter with […]

After President George Herbert Walker Bush died Friday, the news has been full of stories about his service during World War II, his responsibilities for the Persian Gulf War, his inabilities to rally the economy during his four years in office, and his 1992 loss to Bill Clinton. One big story missing in all that? […]

My part-time job moderating the blog for Easterseals national headquarters keeps me in touch with a lot of important people: people with disabilities and their friends and family members who write guest posts. This morning Easterseals published a post written by Bernhard Walke. Bernhard and his wife Rosa are the proud parents of seven-year-old Elena, […]

This morning my Seeing Eye dog Whitney and I take off for Union Station to head to the Chicago suburbs. It’s Disability Awareness Week at Wilmot Elementary School in Deerfield, and we’re slated to give a presentation to eight- and nine-year-olds. The third graders are studying Helen Keller, and you can bet I’ll be publishing […]

Just got news that the Library of Congress Talking Book Service has created a Braille version of Writing Out Loud — it’s available free of charge to Americans who are blind or visually impaired. The Library of Congress administers the National Library Service (NLS), a talking-book and Braille program available for free to those of […]