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Is Remediation in Your Home Education a Reflection of Your Child, or Internalized Ableism?
I often walk a fine line between honoring who my son is and teaching him the skills required to live a meaningful life.⠀ I first became aware of this tug of war when dealing with my son's sensory aversions. He has a strong objection to the texture of playdough. The...
Ableism Robbed My Son of the Celebratory Joy of His Birth
Ableism robbed my son of the celebratory joy of his birth. My reaction to his diagnosis was steeped in ableism. It was handed to me in an ableist institution by ableist professionals who set us up with months-worth of ableist correctional practices. By the time I left...
Adapting Physical Games
This article is part of the Adapting Board Games for Neurodivergent and Disabled Kids series. Find the main page for this series here. Physical games are games often played with the entire body. It requires standing, jumping, moving around, etc. This may pose a...
Adapting 3D Games
This article is part of the Adapting Board Games for Neurodivergent and Disabled Kids series. Find the main page for this series here. 3D games are any games with solid three-dimensional pieces we can manipulate. In many ways, they resemble toys. Popular 3D...
Adapting Card Games
This article is part of the Adapting Board Games for Neurodivergent and Disabled Kids series. Find the main page for this series here. Popular Card Games Uno Go Fish! Crazy Eights Old Maid Card Game Challenges for Neurodivergent and Disabled Kids...
Adapting Chutes and Ladders Games
This article is part of the Adapting Board Games for Neurodivergent and Disabled Kids series. Find the main page for this series here. Chutes and Ladders are also known as Snakes and Ladders. They tend to be one of the first games played by young children because of...
Adapting Matching Games
This article is part of the Adapting Board Games for Neurodivergent and Disabled Kids series. Find the main page for this series here. Matching games are standard social games for beginners. They are also known as memory games. What’s fun about matching games is you...
Adapting Board Games for Neurodivergent and Disabled Kids
As gameschooling grows in popularity in alternative education, I think about the kids who continuously get left out. While adapted board games exist on the market for neurodivergent and disabled kids, many are costly. I wanted to find a way to use commonly available...
Who Benefits From Inadequate Systems of Care?
Families that choose in-home care for their loved ones take the brunt of inadequate systems of care. Some implications for families: One or both adults in the home often have to forego their careers to care for the family member, forcing them to live in poverty....
In-Home Caregiving
To protect our loved ones, hundreds of thousands of families who relied on in-home care went without caregiving or nursing throughout the pandemic. Family members picked up the slack. In our home alone, the government saved on three part-time caregiver paychecks for...
Quality Caregiving
When families are up in arms about caring for our loved ones, it's not because we don't want to do it. It's because we don't want to do it in this way. Parents/guardians/caregivers hardly speak up about our reality because we are met with options that set our children...
Fighting for Alternative Options in Caregiving
When parents of non-disabled children say they are tired, they are met with sympathy and compassion. Grandparents and friends rally around with support. When parents of disabled children say they are tired, the conversation changes to respite centers and specialized...
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