Meriah Nichols is a counselor. Solo mom to 3 (one with Down syndrome, one on the spectrum). Deaf, and neurodiverse herself, she’s a gardening nerd who loves cats, Star Trek, and takes her coffee hot and black.
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Cutting Special Olympics is a Smoke Screen: Here’s Where the Real Issues Are
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Secretary of Education (and champion of no education) Betsy DeVos is proposing to completely eliminate all $18 million of government funding for Special Olympics and then pump $60 million into Charter schools. At the same time, the Trump administration is trying to completely eliminate the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) and slash Social Security. This affects…
Horse Therapy and Down syndrome?!
One of the first things that we learned here was that Moxie’s pre-school teacher has a coincidental background in Special Education and practices horse therapy in her spare time. Some might call that “coincidence” but I like to call it the Universe aligning stars for our Rainbow. Cheesy, a bit? Yeah, maybe, but how else…
Voices from the Disability Community: Bonnie Lewkowicz
Bonnie Lewkowicz and I shared an elevator once. I knew who she was and she had no clue who I was. An over-eagerly smiling stalker? A rabid fan? I could see she was trying to be polite and not yell at me to quit my staring and smiling, and I could see it would be…
Get to Know Moebius Syndrome: The Rare Condition Affecting 1 in 50,000
This is an awareness post, highlighting Moebius syndrome, a rare neurological condition. What is Moebius syndrome Moebius syndrome is a rare congenital (present at birth) neurological disorder that affects the facial muscles. It occurs in about 2 to 20 people per million births. 1 in 50,000 is the lower end of numbers. All ethnicities have…
Reasons to Celebrate: New Video for World Down Syndrome Day #LeaveNoOneBehind
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] CoorDown Onlus has released “Reasons to celebrate” video with the world today! [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/kFioqxJgMXI” align=”center” title=”Reasons to Celebrate”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This video had me in tears because it nails exactly how I feel right now. I want to celebrate the fact that my daughter and her tribe are these really cool people who have gifts, skills, talents and…
Would You Just Quit Saying “Special Needs”?!
I am an adult with a disability. I have a child with a disability (different from my own). And I am a professional educator. I have come to loathe the term “special needs”. I feel like it’s a watered-down euphemism for “disability”, originating in the educational sphere and has since been misused all over the…