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If you have a child with a physical disability, how can you plan your family’s life in a way that is inclusive for everyone? What can you do to create a family where every member pulls his or her own weight (in appropriate measure), meets challenges, and has moments in the spotlight along the way? Most parents of a child who has a physical disability want their child to have fun, be responsible, make friends, and take acceptable risks—in short, to feel like "just one of the kids"—and they want to make sure that the needs of the whole family are met, too. Just One of the Kids is designed to help parents focus not on what could have been but instead on what can be, so that they, their children, and the grandparents thrive as individuals and as a family.
About the Author
Kay Harris Kriegsman, born in Arkansas, was the second of five children. She was raised in western Colorado, where at age 7 she became one of the last of the "polio kids" from the '50's. While attending the University of Denver she was crowned Miss Handicapped America. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Maryland while she and her husband Will raised their children, Bill and Katie. She maintains a private psychotherapy practice with people with and without physical disabilities; co-chaired the HOW Conference for teens with physical disabilities their parents and teenaged siblings for many years; and has presented workshops on parenting, family relations, and dealing with physical disability on local, regional and national levels. She is co-author of Taking Charge: Teens Talk About Life and Physical Disability; Spinal Cord Injury: A Guide for Living, first and second editions; and Just One of the Kids: Raising a Resilient Family When One of Your Children Has a Physical Disability, to be released in spring, 2013. Her other passions are her four grandchildren, oil painting, and reading.
