Answering kids disability questions

Learning About People With Disabilities Through Today’s Children

Hello Friends! No matter what is going on in the world or even in my own life, I can always count on the beautiful innocence of a child when I am presenting at an elementary school. They have no filtration system. Whatever thought, idea, or even more powerful, a question, they are going to let it [..}


Disability Independence - Asking For Help

Can I Get A Little Help, Please?

Independence. When you live with a disability, you strive for this more than anything else. You will do anything in your power to achieve even a small portion of what independence can deliver. Still, the fact remains that if you live with any type of disability, part of your independence has been [..}


Disability Confidence - Believe In Yourself

Dream, Believe, and Work to Achieve!

Hello and Happy Holidays Friends! This seems to be the time of year when most people seriously consider making changes, mainly in the form of New Year’s Resolutions, to their lives.  I want to share with you a proven formula that not only can the parents and adults who are reading this use in [..}


Scott benefits from a regular standing program

Remember Those Courageous Moments

Hello Friends! Are you looking for a little inspiration, a little motivation, or a little fuel to get you through the day or a challenging moment in your life?  Look no further than your past for that jumpstart that you need, that we all need from time to time.  Recently, I was asked to give a [..}


Adaptive Water Sports For Those With Spinal Cord Injuries

Go Outside Of Your Comfort Zone!

Hello Friends! Yes, whether you have a disability or not, I would be recommending that you go out of your comfort zone, but I am emphasizing it more for my fellow friends with disabilities as well as their parents and/or caretakers. We are becoming too complacent, too sedentary, too use to saying, [..}


Disability Education and Awareness

We Are Teachers…Whether You Like It Or Not!

Hello Friends! If you are a child or an adult with a disability or you are a parent of a child/adult with a disability, you are a teacher. Now, we do not get paid to be teachers. It is a title that we naturally absorbed when we were either born with our disability or acquired it at some stage of our [..}


Parenting Kids With Disabilities, Creating an Environment to Thrive

Disabling the Enabler

Hello Friends! Hope you are using the summertime as a time of reflection, relaxation, and rejuvenation. Now I know many parents of children and teens with disabilities read these blogs from time to time, so I thought I would focus on YOU for a change. To my fellow brothers and sisters with [..}


Advice For Teens With Disabilities

Coaching Kids With Disabilities

Hello Friends! Hope you are all enjoying your summer. For the past ten years I have been a life coach to many people, with and without disabilities, including kids ranging from ages 9-18. Whether you have a disability or not, these are critical years when it comes to personal development. What I [..}


Dad With Disability Swims With Kids

Father’s Day Follies

Hello Friends! To all my fellow Dads out there and aspiring fathers, I wanted to wish you all a very Happy Father’s Day. Being a Dad in a wheelchair is the only thing I know and it is one of those titles in life of which I am most proud. More than anything it has taught me that Forrest Gump really [..}


Parenting with a Disability

Part Two: Overcoming Parenting Fears

Hey there friends. Now that I either got you fired up about having a child or more children or have totally frightened you about the prospects of having a child, I would like dive into the specifics of parenting with a disability. First and foremost, you can do this. When my wife, Pratiksha and I [..}