A child's very life and presence isn't about you, they are separate and apart from you and your ego.
Author - causeaneffect
Each child’s life, disabled or not, deserves to be celebrated upon arrival because it is neither an animal nor plant that arrived, but a human life, a human life.
The heads of these institutions cannot be receiving state funds and not be held accountable for their actions or the actions of their staff members.
It requires the audacity to continue engaging and believing even when it feels as if all is lost or as if you are in a desert enduring your forty days and forty nights.
Transformation is not an overnight process. It can be long and slow but part of transformation requires us to dust off the recommendations made in the past and actually...
Dr David Bratt at his St James office. Photo by Mark Lyndersay. Originally published in the Trinidad Express , March 05, 2018 I got into the business of special children...
Rowan McEwen photographed in his classroom at QRC. Photograph by Mark Lyndersay. Originally published in the Trinidad Express , February 26, 2018 You know sometimes when...
Then the whispers of the nurses and attending pediatric doctors caused some concern. Jo was different. They were not sure what to tell us, he was beautiful yet he seemed...
Jamal Keron Legen in the garden at the National Centre for Disabilities in San Fernando. Photo by Mark Lyndersay. Originally published in the Trinidad Express , February...
Brian Pouchet photographed at his home in La Romain. Photo by Mark Lyndersay. Originally published in the Trinidad Express , January 29, 2018 It’s difficult to...