by Gabriella | Dec 6, 2021 | Essays and Reflections
Some of the things we request from children make very little sense. Worksheets asking question after question about a book sucks the life out of it. As parents and teachers of disabled or neurodivergent children, we always feel we need to do more. Drive it home...
by Gabriella | Dec 3, 2021 | Accessibility, Essays and Reflections
Home-educating parents, especially parents raising disabled children, are continually being watched, judged, and criticized. Everyone has an opinion. Hardly anyone keeps it to themselves. Nobody questions public school parents about their choices. When their kids...
by Gabriella | Dec 1, 2021 | Accessibility, Essays and Reflections
The rehabilitation center we’re affiliated with is an old school adapted with an elevator and sliding doors at the entrance but does not have adequate change spaces. The only two change tables at this center are polar opposites in design and both entirely...
by Gabriella | Nov 29, 2021 | Accessibility, Essays and Reflections
The pediatrician hinted about a disorder while I sat in a chair and he stood over my son’s incubator. I left confused and in tears.⠀ The official diagnosis was handed to me without support in the NICU. I held my son, the doctor casually leaned on the empty...
