Archives for April 2015

How This 8-Year-Old Is Fighting the Unthinkable Disease That Took Her Sister

The Mighty Staff

Epidermolysis Bullosa

25 Ways My Family Defines Autism

Tracie Pauley

Autism Spectrum Disorder

What My Brother Has Taught Me About Unconditional Love

Susie Rickmers

Cerebral Palsy

A Man Called My Son 'Retarded.' One Stranger Wouldn't Stand for It.

Melissa Gagne

Autism Spectrum Disorder

When a Man Restocking the Produce Section Came to My Rescue

Kari Sullivan

Autism Spectrum Disorder

Photographer Puts Pediatric Cancer Patients Into Their Wildest Fantasies

Veronica An

Childhood Cancer

Watch 3 Blind Women Explain How They ‘See’ Beauty

Melissa McGlensey

Blindness

5 Ways Autism Has Transformed My Marriage

Sherri Brown

Autism Spectrum Disorder

To All the Grandparents of Children With Autism

Linda Mastroianni

Autism Spectrum Disorder

The One Question I’m Glad I Asked My Son

Cassie McLelland

Spina Bifida

The Bus Driver’s Comment That Made Me Rethink the Way I Treat My Daughter

Dana Kellison

Autism Spectrum Disorder

6 Lessons I Learned After Hitting Rock Bottom

Alivia Hall

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

The Lifelong Lesson I Learned From a Hurtful Comment

Alex Berube

Transverse Myelitis

When Other Grieving Mothers Made Me Feel Like a Mama Again

Delaney DeMay

How to Love Your Children Through the Loss of a Sibling

Tracie Loux

Doctors Said She Might Never Walk. But That Day, I Watched Her Surf.

Monica McDivitt

How I Teach My Daughter About Self-Care

Courtney Westlake

Ichthyosis

Watch 3 Extraordinary Men Show Us How Similar We Really Are

Veronica An

Blindness

Every Special Needs Mom Deserves to Hear This

Gretchen Fishman

Autism Spectrum Disorder

3 Ways Having a Child with Special Needs Can Help Your Career

Jennifer Bulandr

Autism Spectrum Disorder

Student Project Exposes the Part of College Life No One Talks About

Rachel Kassenbrock

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

I Cried on My Son’s First 2 Birthdays. Here’s Why I Won’t on His 3rd.

Kasey Eykyn

Watch This 6-Year-Old Cancer Patient Light Up the Hospital With a Dance Party

Melissa McGlensey

Cancer

To the Donut Shop Owner Whose Crazy Act of Kindness Helped My Sick Friend

Laura Muresan

Cancer

The 10 Magical Moments in an Otherwise Tough Disneyland Trip

Robert James Ashe

Arthrogryposis

The Term That Describes My Daughter Better Than ‘Special Needs’ or ‘Disabled’

Kelly Boy

Cerebral Palsy

To the Brave Mom Who Showed Me the Error of ‘Someone Always Has It Worse’

Carmen Gould

4 Lessons My Student Taught Me About Life With a Disability

Dustin Demmers

Muscular Dystrophy

Trying Animal Therapy With a Self-Proclaimed Animal Psychic

Jackie Linder Olson

Autism Spectrum Disorder

The 'Arrival Anxiety' That Comes With Having Autism

Vickie C.

Autism Spectrum Disorder