What Special Needs?
I imagine a world where inclusion doesn’t have to be a planned action because every child is simply accepted for who they are and appreciated for what they can do. Each program, each school, each...
View ArticleSeven Tips for Teaching Children about Disability
I recently read Jaime-Jin Lewis’s Five Myths of Talking About Race with Your Child and was reminded how important it is for us to be intentional in teaching children about race. As I read her points,...
View ArticleBehavior Strategies: Cats, Homework, and Responding to Needs
Ten years ago, when my son was in 4th grade, he had a homework assignment that involved reading a newspaper article and bringing it in to school. He spread out the newspaper on the kitchen table and...
View ArticleInclusive Communities Talk About Language
I watched the trailer for a new documentary called Invitation to Dance by Simi Linton and Christian Von Tippelskirch. It’s cool; you should check it out! If you watch it, you’ll hear Simi Linton...
View ArticleTennis Balls Do the Trick: Solutions for Teachers and Students
I’ve been reading Paula Kluth’s book “You’re Going to Love This Kid” for a class I’m taking. It has been especially helpful and the wealth of information can be readily applied to any students and to...
View ArticleStay-at-home daddy
My life has not quite turned out the way I had imagined it. I had thought I would get married, have a couple children, buy a house, and have a career working on private planes. Well, I did get married...
View ArticleBest known as “Austin’s dad”
I am best known as “Austin’s dad”, that’s a title that no one else in the world get’s to have. My son Austin was born with a Dandy Walker, which meant that his life was labeled before it began, but...
View ArticleExtra Dad
Of course I never thought I’d be an “Extra Dad”. I wasn’t even sure if I’d even ever be a father, being in a wheelchair can make that sort of thing a bit up to chance. I wasn’t sure I’d ever have the...
View ArticleI Write Sensory Stories
I write sensory stories for individuals with profound and multiple learning disabilities, and those for whom sensory processing is difficult. I aim to write stories that everyone will enjoy; my hope is...
View ArticleKIT’s Journey to Inclusion on American Airlines
What an incredible year it has been for Kids Included Together (KIT). From opening an office in Washington, DC this past April, to traveling the globe bringing inclusion to more & more communities,...
View ArticleA Nurse who Never Forgets her “Bag of Tricks”
I use accommodations, person first language and creative thinking every single day as a nurse and those skills were acquired by my work with Kids Included Together. You know the pictures that KIT makes...
View ArticleStephen Wampler Makes the Most of Life in Every Imaginable Way
My name is Steve Wampler. When I was born in 1968, I got stuck in my mother’s birth canal and was deprived of oxygen for a time. As a result, I have cerebral palsy. Having said that, I was the...
View ArticleMeeting Students Where They Are
I think of all students as differently abled in any case, not that certain students are disabled. We all know that students vary considerably in mental and physical ability and development, with some...
View ArticleThe Reciprocity of Inclusion
Inclusion is often viewed as an opportunity to equally include people with disabilities in everyday activity. In my eyes, working with Jillian gives me a chance to be included into Jillian’s world....
View ArticleARE YOU NORM? I Am Norm celebrates its 4th anniversary of promoting inclusion...
Four years ago, twenty youth with and without disabilities came together to create a campaign advocating for inclusion of people with disabilities in all aspects of society. In less than 48 hours,...
View ArticleBasic Tips For Planning Accessible Activities
Inclusion starts with program leaders and how they plan to accommodate participants’ needs. Your participants may have a diagnosed disability (Autism, Cerebral Palsy, etc.) or something that is...
View Article#LOVEInclusion
This February, show how much you #LOVEinclusion! Sign up here for free access to the #LOVEinclusion toolkit including easy fun activities to do with your students, a guide for ROCKING acts of...
View ArticleParalympian Knows No Limits
Stephen Campbell is a 27 Northern Irish Paralympic swimmer. He lost his sight at the age of 16 and now is totally blind. Campbell was a student at the University of Ulster at Magee in Co Londonderry,...
View ArticleQuality, Inclusion, Pioneering, Richness: Meet Bea
Each month we celebrate an individual who is instrumental in helping make this world a more inclusive place. In March 2014, we honor Bea as KIT’s first Advo-KIT of the month. Bea is the Flight Chief at...
View ArticleCheering for Alexis
When I was 7 years old, my mother saw a flyer for a Pop Warner cheer squad in my area. The thought of joining the squad excited me because I wanted to do something I had never done before. As the...
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