In recent blog posts (here, here, and here) I havepretty vocally noted my appreciation for all the Sarah Palin is doing to draw attention to the special needs community.  She’s being praised and ridiculed, uplifted and degraded by the masses for her strong stance against the use of the word “retarded” in a derogatory fashion.  [...]

 I don’t know if you want to call it ironic or a coincidence (which I don’t much believe it either) that just a few short weeks ago in this blog I was talking about our government leaders starting to understand our fight to advocate for individuals with special needs.  Just two days prior to that, [...]

Warning- you or someone you know is about to be harshly reprimanded simply because of what you may have just said.  Portions of this blog post are coming from The Vision, ARC Marion’s newsletter, Fall/Winter 2008, but since I wrote it there, I’m posting it here.  It’s important for people to know how we,as advocates for [...]