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Episode 83: Part Three of Three with Gary Roe: Honoring Grief After Suicide

Episode 83: Part Three of Three with Gary Roe: Honoring Grief After Suicide

by Special Needs Companies | Nov 17, 2020

Suicide is a dark topic that is full of sorrow and grief, but it is something that needs to be discussed, especially during a pandemic that has caused many people around the world to feel isolated. Gary Roe currently serves as a hospice chaplain and grief counselor...
Episode 78: Unified Sports Programs Promote Community and Inclusion

Episode 78: Unified Sports Programs Promote Community and Inclusion

by Special Needs Companies | Oct 29, 2020

Mary Beth McMahon, President and CEO of Special Olympics Massachusetts, joined Parenting Impossible with Host Annette Hines to discuss the transition to virtual activities and society’s perspective on people with disabilities.  When COVID-19 forced Mary Beth to move...
Episode 76: How to Talk About Inclusion and Ability

Episode 76: How to Talk About Inclusion and Ability

by Special Needs Companies | Oct 22, 2020

Conversations about inclusion often talk about race and diversity, but one topic that people often leave off the table is ability. In honor of Down Syndrome Awareness Month, Michelle Sie Whitten, the President and CEO of the Global Down Syndrome Foundation, and her...
Episode 73: Addressing Ableism and Institutional Bias in Our Society

Episode 73: Addressing Ableism and Institutional Bias in Our Society

by Special Needs Companies | Oct 13, 2020

In this episode of our Parenting Impossible podcast, Annette interviews “warrior woman,” Nina Bakoyiannis, to discuss the interwoven framework of disability discrimination in our society that exists both interpersonally and institutionally.  Under her pen name...
Episode 72: The Need to Reform Institutional Bias

Episode 72: The Need to Reform Institutional Bias

by Special Needs Companies | Oct 6, 2020

The death of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has brought a new push for disability rights. In this episode of Parenting Impossible, Host Annette Hines talks to Alison Barkoff, Director of Advocacy at the Center for Public Representation in...
COVID-19 | The Great Equalizer for the Special Needs Community

COVID-19 | The Great Equalizer for the Special Needs Community

by The Special Needs Companies | Sep 22, 2020

In a recent Circle of Care Facebook Live session, special guest and disability advocate Cheryl Ryan Chan suggested that the pandemic has become the “great equalizer” in the disability world.    During COVID-19, ALL of us have experienced the effects of quarantine...
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