Episode notes
March is Developmental Disability Awareness Month, so we are joined in this episode by Samara Cole-Doyon to talk about disability in childhood. She was an early childhood educator and is now a children's book author and the mother to a child with disabilities. She shares about her experience raising a son with a disability and what that means for her family, as well as her ideas on how policymakers and professionals of all kinds could work to better support & include families like hers.
Resources mentioned in the episode:
- Samara's website
- Danny with Words (Danny Whitty: nonspeaking Autistic writer and advocate)
Keywords
early childhood educationeducationpreschoolteachingkindergartenelementarytoddlerinfantearly childhoodmainechildcarelearningpolicydisabilitydisability rightsdisability awareness