**In honor of Veteran’s Day, I asked a former employee and Viet Nam veteran, Frank Champ, to be our guest blogger today. Here is his story.**
Back 14 years ago I was offered a position with an ARC in Manchester, CT. When the CEO interviewed me she admittedly was impressed with my credentials and began the [...]
I met with a parent the other day who mentioned that her son with special needs had recently started school, and she had one of his therapists go with them to get him started. It’s a good thing she did, because the goals that had been laid out for him by the previous program were [...]
Read the rest of this entry »My sister is developmentally disabled. She is diagnosed with cerebral palsy, mental retardation and autism, but the last of these diagnoses has not always been a part of her life—something I only came to remember in the past few weeks. Here’s my autism story.
It was late in the 1980s when the movie, Rain Man, came [...]
