EP Magazine’s aim is to reach the widest possible audience with our award-winning content – so please help us spread the word. As we enter our 46th year of continued publication, I would like to take this opportunity to thank each one of you for your continued support of EP Magazine (Exceptional Parent), as well as for your advocacy and contributions to the special needs community. As EP’s new Publisher, I can assure that you […]
These “random thoughts” were written by Andy Rooney, a man who had the gift of saying so much with so few words. Mr. Rooney shared many of his perspectives on the TV Show “Sixty Minutes”. A Peabody Award Recipient and Army WW II Veteran, Mr. Rooney passed away at the age of 92 but not before he penned these words which offer us so much. Thought I would share them with you: I’ve learned …. […]
I received an email from a friend in Atlanta, Georgia who related this compelling story to me and asked that I share it. The story is as follows: When an old man died in the geriatric ward of a nursing home in an Australian country town, it was believed that he had nothing left of any value. Later, when the nurses were going through his meager possessions, They found this poem. Its quality and content […]
by Joseph M. Valenzano, Jr. Since around 1980, Peter Singer, Ph.D, a controversial professor at one of America’s most prestigious academic institutions, Princeton University, has through his lectures, writings and speeches, promoted public policy that would legalize the killing of infants born with a disability in the first month of life. More recently, on April 26, 2015 Dr. Singer on “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” again rationalized the killing of infants with disabilities. Singer told Klein […]
by Joseph M. Valenzano, Jr. I had occasion to read a paper recently published in the American Journal of Medical Genetics that estimated the number of abortions that occur each year following a positive prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome to be more than 3,100! Now, in the context of roughly 4.0 million babies born in the U.S. each year, and even when viewed in the context of roughly 500,000 births classified as premature, this number […]
