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My latest article, “Writing and Disability: Powerful Together”

I was glad to have the opportunity to reach some new readers with a guest post on “Blogging It Up with Marfi.” It’s been great connecting with someone with so much experience and wisdom (and equally strong opinions) on living with a disability. I hope you will check out my latest article, “Writing and Disability: Powerful Together.” Click here to read it. Update 7/22/14: The article is now on the Huffington Post Impact section, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-j-quinn/writing-and-disability-po_b_5602527.html .

Just Play

  Originally published July 2, 2014, on disABLE The Brand . I recently posted a picture from my graduation from Old Forge School—a school for kids with disabilities—as part of the Throwback Thursday fad on social media. My niece was graduating sixth grade. Graduating to regular school and the seventh grade felt like a somewhat equivalent abuse of the word “graduation,” and it seemed like a fun thing to throw out there. Posting the picture reminded me that the concept of a school specifically for kids with disabilities is all but dead as I understand it with “inclusion” now the model for educating kids with physical disabilities. Overall, that’s the way it should be—kids with physical disabilities being educated alongside everyone else. But in traveling down the road of trying to keep up with everyone else, I think we lost a little bit of the importance of kids with disabilities being together. Old Forge had many shortcomings, but one of its greatest accomplishments was providing a plac