One day, around 18 months ago, my son asked me a question while I was driving him home from speech therapy…”When will I swim with dolphins Mommy?” I almost lost control of the car. It was one of my son’s first times to use spoken speech and not only that, but he used a complete [...]
Hurricane Ike has come and gone, but many in our Special Needs Neighborhood have been impacted; including nonprofit organizations who support our community like the Arc of Houston. If you are in the affected area from Hurricane Ike and are able to read this…know that your Special Needs Neighborhood community is thinking about you [...]
Today is the SIXTH month birthday of Special Needs Neighborhood.com.
We want to thank you, our special needs neighbors, for making this a very busy, exciting, and resourceful six months for our online community.
In this time, we have averaged 900 unique visitors a month and 10,000 page views and 21,000 hits a month. Each month, we [...]
In today’s blog, we finish our discussion on “Effective Parent Advocacy” with Kay Lambert, former parent advocate with Advocacy Inc. Also, Advocacy Inc. is listed on the Special Needs Neighborhood website under Advocacy groups if you want more information about the Austin office of this organization.
Our question to Kay was “How can disability/parent groups be [...]
Here is a continuation of our discussion with Kay Lambert, former parent advocate with Advocacy Inc. Kay spent 23 years with Advocacy Inc. working on issues related to the disability/special needs community and has a lot of helpful information about how parents can be effective with state legislators.
I posed a question to Kay, “How can [...]
Kay Lambert, a former parent advocate with Advocacy Inc. for 23 years, shares her ideas for parents on how to be effective advocates at the Texas Legislature. In previous blogs, see Representative Donna Howard blog entry, we discussed tactics and advice on how parents can be effective advocates for their children with special needs at [...]
