Helpful Hints to Raising a Differently Abled Child
Helpful Hints to Raising a Differently Abled Child Suzanne DeRemer is not only a poet, but also the adoptive mother of this very special young man with a duel diagnosis of Down syndrome and Autistic spectrum disorder. Adopting her son meant embracing the miracle of a child who needed a home. She wrote a poem, "A Child's Plea" to help foster children find homes, and this began her journey of wanting to adopt a child. My son has brought about a rising thunder within me. This means I feel destined to help by raising awareness and rising above discrimination, labels, and public and professional bias. All parents with disabled children need to rise and create a little thunder every now and then. A prime example of this would be at IEP meetings when our children need a voice to speak for them. Raising a child with such challenges means that everythin...