Have you ever felt as if you are on an island all alone as the parent of a child with a disability? Maybe you don’t know any other family with the same diagnosis.
You feel like no one could possibly understand your pain and worry about your child’s specific challenges. You start to feel isolated, alone, depressed.
When my daughter was first diagnosed with left-side hemiparesis, a form of cerebral palsy, I focused so much on trying to find another family who had a child with the same specific diagnosis.
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