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“Back to school” has been my favorite time of year since I was a kid looking forward to new friends, activities, things to learn, and (my favorite) school supplies. As a mom, I still look forward to the promise and potential a new school year brings (and I still love
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Our families are being confronted with the terrifying decision to send our kids back to school, risking their lives, or keep them home and miss critical instruction and therapy. The ramifications of these choices are mind-blowing. From learning to therapy to social integration, school is the cornerstone of community inclusion
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Dear Governor Parson, I wanted to take a moment to respond to a recent interview you did regarding children returning to school during the COVID-19 pandemic. You stated that when kids go back to school they would get COVID-19 and they would all “get over it.” My daughter Olive is
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It defies logic that any human being would refuse a simple action such as wearing a mask which, however inconvenient, could prevent the completely preventable: passing a potentially deadly virus to a loved one, a friend, or a child like our Gabriel. Gabriel will be five in November, having long
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We’re pleased to introduce a new series for the blog: “We’re In This Together” with our LL blog master, Jeneva (who’s also the author of our “Sharing the Journey with Jeneva” series). As parents, caregivers, and self-advocates who've struggled with unknowns, isolation, fear, stress, and
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Samantha McGovern lives in Springfield, Virginia, with her daughter Josephine and her husband. Samatha is a member of Little Lobbyists. Tell me about your family’s medical needs. We’re a pretty unique family of three: each of us has medical needs. Two years ago, Josephine’s dad was treated
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All of us with medically complex children have good reason to fear the spread of the new coronavirus, COVID-19. Experts are right: Handwashing is the first line of defense against all viruses and bacteria. However, there’s “handwashing”, and then there’s real handwashing. Little Lobbyists “medical moms” like Lori