I’m a Christian. I’m also a wife, mom, and ministry leader, in that order. I blog about our family at Dinglefest and also at TheWorksOfGodDisplayed. Disability and disease in my life: I stumbled into the realm of disability and disease in several ways: in elementary school when I rocked the IEP for years due to severe speech impairments, in the summer of one of those years when I hung out under Mississippi magnolia trees as my mom nursed my Pops through end-stage lung cancer, in high school when my friend on the swim team needed someone to help include her because she couldn’t hear, in college when I worked at a preschool program for children with developmental delays resulting from prenatal drug exposure, after school as I taught kids with a range of disabilities in public schools in Texas and North Carolina, and in consulting as I developed training materials for new special ed teachers.
Somewhere along the way, I earned my MAEd in Special Education, specializing in learning disabilities and autism, but all my experiences before that and since have taught me far more than my formal education ever could.