ARTHUR needs a new friend

Posted by Beth Finke on February 3rd, 2009

Calling all ARTHUR fans! CVS Caremark All Kids Can, a program dedicated to making life easier for kids with disabilities, and ARTHUR, the award-winning PBS KIDS GO! television series, are teaming up to announce the Arthur/All Kids Can …Read More » »

CVS and All Kids Can

Posted by Beth Finke on July 28th, 2008

About this time a year ago, I was preparing to visit a summer school class of future educators. Most of the students I talked to at Elmhurst College last year graduated in May. They’ll be teaching in another month, and it’s likely they’ll have children with disabilities in their classes.

While I was preparing my talk last year, I wrote …Read More » »

New NY governor shows how “All Kids Can”

Posted by Beth Finke on March 17th, 2008

I was lucky enough to be on Long Island last week when they made the announcement about New York’s new governor. I’d flown to New York by myself – well, with my Seeing Eye dog — to visit elementary schools there. The idea was to promote my children’s book and teach the kids how Seeing Eye dogs work.

In the end, …Read More » »

Book review: Mark Haddon’s “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”

Posted by Heather Pint on March 12th, 2008

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time tells the fictional story …Read More » »

J-Mac makes points for autism

Posted by Beth Finke on February 12th, 2008

Just found out that the theme for the Valentine’s Day Larry King Live TV show this Thursday is The heartbreak… and hope of autism. Guests slated for the show that night include Holly Robinson Peete, Doug Flutie, Toni Braxton and Jason “J-Mac” McElwain.

If you ask me, McElwain is sure to be …Read More » »

Inclusion, or segregation?

Posted by Patricia Wright on December 13th, 2007

A Wall Street Journal article reports on parents choosing to enroll their children with autism in segregated programs at school instead of including them in classes with their peers.

Last fall, groups who favor placing disabled students in regular classrooms faced opposition from an unlikely quarter: parents like Norette Travis, whose daughter Valerie has …Read More » »

Inclusion and “All Kids Can”

Posted by Beth Finke on July 11th, 2007

Ever since my memoir Long Time, No See was published I’ve been asked to guest-lecture for college classes. I usually talk about writing, about the assistive technology I use to write, or simply about what it’s like to live with a …Read More » »