by Dolores Crowley | Jun 30, 2021 | FINANCIAL WELLBEING, SPECIAL NEEDS ARTICLES
We might all be a little reserved about sending our children back to respite, even after they had their Covid vaccine. Now, as some of you have got a touch of David’s personality through the Workshops and his articles, you can probably guess he is very fussy. He...
by Dolores Crowley | May 31, 2021 | FINANCIAL WELLBEING, SPECIAL NEEDS ARTICLES
As a family, I know how challenging this can be when you are a parent of a child with different abilities. However, it’s worth taking a look at… David is a wheelchair user, and sometimes it was challenging to do things with his brother and sister, but when we...
by Dolores Crowley | Apr 28, 2021 | FINANCIAL WELLBEING, SPECIAL NEEDS ARTICLES
Ok fellow parents, I’m 54, and I was once a very healthy, strong, young woman who could lift a wheelchair into the boot of a car no problem or do any physio with David. I could help him move easily, lift him, bathe and shower him no problem. Now ladies and gentleman,...
by Dolores Crowley | Apr 1, 2021 | FINANCIAL WELLBEING, SPECIAL NEEDS ARTICLES
I just happened to come across this article and it resonated with me. Seemingly we have around 6,200 thoughts per day. And according to research conducted by the National Science Foundation around 80% of our thoughts are negative. 95% of our thoughts are exactly the...
by Dolores Crowley | Jan 27, 2021 | FINANCIAL WELLBEING, SPECIAL NEEDS ARTICLES, SPECIAL NEEDS ENTITLEMENTS
As you can only imagine the thought process, we all go through thinking about nominating Guardians. I must be honest when David was in his late teens I still hadn’t this done, but now I can happily say it’s done and dusted. It was difficult and challenging having to...
