When people ask me “How is your daughter doing?” my most recent response has been, “better than me on most days.” Because when you really stop and think about how our kids think and feel, we carry so much more of their disability around with us than they do. For most of our kids, they have never known life any other way.


Whether your child’s disability is medical or  in the area of their cognitive, communication, physical or adaptive area of development, we all must remember their limitations are only part of who they are. Their disability does not define them as a person.


In my daughter’s world, her muscles don’t always appear to agree with what our definition of mobility is, but to her, it is just the way she moves. She doesn’t even realize anything about the way she walks, holds a pencil or runs is in any way different than other kids.