Wesley J Page is an Occupational Therapist with Cerebral Palsy and 17 years of pediatric experience at Shrine School in Memphis, TN. He provides nuggets of information including how he navigated school and university as well as his energy conservation techniques.  Pop over to www.raisingkellan.org where Wesley has written a handcrafted letter to parents raising kiddos with different abilities. 

Nicole Luongo is an author, disability advocate, and writer. She is well known in the cerebral palsy community for being an advocate for selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) surgery, which is a procedure she underwent as an adult. In this episode, Nicole does a poetry recital from her book "Naked Desires."

You can read Nicole's Fact File @ https://www.raisingkellan.org/blog/nicole-luongo-author-poet-and-disability-advocate

You can contact Nicole @ https://nicoleluongo.com/

Misha Davydov is an early childhood educator at "A New Leaf" Preschool in Nashville, Tennessee.  Misha delivers 45 minutes of power packed conversation that include: 1) What is the Reggio Emilia Approach?  2) How do Children Learn. 3) The Biology of why we need to be outdoors. 4) What does the current research show?  5) Misha's pandemic parent takeaways.  This is the final installment of this series. Enjoy!

Misha blogs at https://withoutwindows.com/

The preschool he works at is http://www.anewleafnashville.org/

For the research referenced in this podcast go to https://www.raisingkellan.org/quarantine-strategy-series-part-3-the-restorative-power-of-nature/

Pediatric Occupational Therapist, Maddison Balk of Let’s Yoga Perth, focus is on improving a child’s emotional regulation, motor development and social skills through adaptive yoga. She teaches parents and children strategies they can apply at home, in the community and school to feel calm, accepted, emotionally/sensory regulated, confident and develop/sustain friendships.

You can hop over to https://www.raisingkellan.org/quarantine-strategy-series-part-2-exercise-yoga-and-relaxation/ for more details on how to contact Maddison at Let's Yoga Perth.

Also check out the previous episode of this series which is dedicated to Mental Health. 

Rose Reif is a licensed clinical mental health counselor, located in Cary, NC.  She provides invaluable strategies on how to mentally cope during the coronavirus pandemic. Rose discusses her approach to explaining the pandemic to children and offers some key takeaways. As always as part of keeping it real, we did have a gatecrasher :) during the podcast!

Rose's advice from the podcast is transcribed in part, to the blog.  Here is the link https://www.raisingkellan.org/quarantine-strategy-series-part-1-mental-health/

I also recommend that you read her Mental Wellness and Disability Blog at https://reifpsychservices.com/

Chris Meyer from Siegburg, Germany has some awesome self tested strategies on the positive mindset that he believes will help other parents raising children with disabilities.  You can find his blog post on the Raising Kellan Blog at www.raisingkellan.org

Chris Meyer from Siegburg,  Germany has some awesome strategies on positive mindset that he believes will help parents raising children with disabilities.  You can find his blog post on the Raising Kellan Blog at https://www.raisingkellan.org/the-value-of-a-positive-mindset/

Lauren Taylor shares her and husband Jason's vision for opening Nevada Brew Works.  This artisan microbrewery creates a family-styled space in Las Vegas, Nevada that benefits the special needs community.  Hear their story at www.raisingkellan.org

March 25 is National Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day and it honors our warriors that work twice as hard at everyday life.  Join Levi, Drake, Dana, Marsh and Kellan on this catch up during the coronavirus quarantine. #raising_kellan#levis_cp_life#drakeb42

www.raisingkellan.org

We heading back to Tennessee after a physically and emotionally gruelling week.  No time to stop, so this podcast was recorded on the final day  at St Louis Children's Hospital heading down South on I-55. 

This is the link to the accompanying podcast: https://www.raisingkellan.org/blog/day-5-st-louis-childrens-hospital-therapy-intensive