S2 E21: Raising Children with Disabilities: Caregiving & Parenting Are Not the Same - A Conversation with Advocate and Mom, Erin Croyle

Erin Croyle offers listeners her perspective on the differences between caregiving and parenting when it comes to being an advocate for disability rights and a mother to three children, one of them having Down syndrome. Erin helps listeners understand how they can both support the disability community and caregivers of children with disabilities as well. Listeners must take a moment also to be inspired by Emily Perl Kingsley’s poem, Welcome To Holland.

Episode Mentions:

• CAREGIVING AND PARENTING ARE NOT THE SAME (11/2019)
• CAREGIVING AND PARENTING ARE NOT THE SAME: BACK TO SCHOOL EDITION (9/2022)
• What is the Difference Between an IEP and a 504 Plan?
• Center for Family Involvement
• Asset-based mindset
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
• The Arc of Virginia
• What is a social story?
• Elopement - When Your Special Needs Child Wanders
• Ableism
• Visual schedules and supports
• What is RtI?
• Least Restrictive Environment, Mainstreaming & Inclusion
• Co-teaching Models

Connect with Erin:

• at The Odyssey Podcast
• on Twitter 
• on Facebook
• on Instagram
• on LinkedIn

When teachers, coaches, administrators, and families grow together, they create schools where everyone is inspired and every student is fully engaged, supported, and ready to thrive.