EP TRAVEL EDITION BY JENNIFER WOODWORTH, PSY.D PLANNING YOUR TRAVEL Where are you off to? Visiting family, relocating due to PCS orders, or planning a vacation can influence travel options based on type of travel available, distance to your destination, and length of stay. The first part of any plan is deciding where to go and what type of travel will be available; by car, plane, train, or boat. Your child’s mobility and necessary equipment […]
For 25 years, University of Tulsa (TU) engineering students have completed their senior project by working with children with special needs, designing and building every day products in a way that is easy for them to use. This year, students designed and built a small portable kitchen to offer a variety of tactile and auditory experiences for children with developmental challenges, allowing them to participate in mixing, chopping, slicing and dicing. The senior design project […]
LIVING WITH A DISABILITY BY JERRY LEVINSON My GP diagnosed the problem as a pinched nerve, likely caused by use of the STS machine that had forced my spinal column and vertebrae into a position they had not been in in years. The title of this column is taken from a line in Robert Burns’ 1786 poem “To a Mouse” that reads “The best laid schemes of mice and men often go awry.” Truer words […]
A family member’s death and the grief we feel is difficult to endure, especially if the death is sudden and shocking. But sometimes we know in advance a person’s life will soon end. “Expecting a death doesn’t minimize grief,” says Leizer Gewirtzman1, CPA, ChSNC, who is a Special Care Planner2 with Lee, Nolan and Koroghlian, LLC3 in Saddle Brook, New Jersey, a general agency of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual). “However, it allows time […]
BY KIMBERLEE RUTAN MCCAFFERTY Eleven years ago, my eldest son Justin was diagnosed with moderate to severe autism. At the time I didn’t know any other families with autistic children other than the ones I’d had in my homeroom as a teacher, and those children were much older than my son. I didn’t know who to turn to for help in supplementing the scant eight hours of services Justin was receiving each month from Virginia’s […]
