For The Love of #$%# Bowling! There is nothing about having Down syndrome that can keep this dancer from kicking some competitor butt at a REGULAR-thats right I said it-Not At ALL Special-National Ballroom Dance competition. Teddy Kremer 29 took first place in the Foxtrot, Tango and Waltz in...

The “Spread the Word to End the Word” Campaign” has been getting a lot of public relations play lately while I think eliminating this word from our commonly used language is a worthwhile and important goal-I’m just not sure we can get there from here. Here is what I...

Organizations which continue to spend copious amounts of money on creating-work settings, home environments, even Snooze-land Rooms (to re-create the stimulus people with disabilities would receive the real world) are sending a strong message, people with disabilities must prove their...

I have been a fan of the Fox television comedy Glee for a while now. I like it for a lot of reasons, not the least of which has been the inclusion of the character of Becky, a member of the McKinley High Cheer Squad who has Down syndrome. It’s a portrayal which puts a person with a...

A Requiem for a Lost Summer and a Broken Spirit. In relative recent history many people with developmental disabilities have been subjected to the tyranny of behavior modification. How many of us who have done this work over our life time are familiar with terms like extinction, shaping,...

Krista J. Flint Looks Retrospectively at a Piece She Wrote Years Ago: I can’t believe I wrote this piece seven years ago when my now 14 year old was only seven. My three boys, Oliver (14) Simon (12) and Charlie (8) know first hand how much better their school, scout troop, tong soo do class,...

Better off Dead than Disabled?: The Royal Society of Canadian Experts Report released this week on End-of-Life decision making plays the all too familiar game of “duck and cover” regarding the effect of legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide on citizens with disabilities in...

Here is What I Know to Be True… There is a direct correlation between the way your organization’s leadership team treats your staff, and the way in which your staff treat the people they support. An environment suffocating under dictator like edicts, non-participatory decision...

The Guardian has documented a story that demonstrates the power of family leadership. Read how one families perseverance in a time when parents were encouraged… and moreover pressured, to surrender their children with disabilities to institutions, stood firm and raised their son in a...