WVU Center for Excellence in Disabilities

Adjusting the Sails

Science EN ↓ 26 episodes

Adjusting the Sails is a podcast aimed to discuss the lives and specific challenges children with special health care needs and other disabilities and their families, caregivers, and service providers face, and how to manage those challenges. The podcast will serve as a platform for all disability-related topics to be discussed and as a mediator between families and caregivers to share their stories and experiences. The podcast will feature guest speakers, panelists, and a variety of program representatives and service providers. This podcast is sponsored by the West Virginia Department of Hea...

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WVU Center for Excellence in Disabilities

Episodes

"When Things Like This Happen" - Tina Crook, Parent Network Specialist and Daylin's Mom, A Story of Hope 02.01.2023 36:16

Tina Crook is a Parent Network Specialist for the WVU Center for Excellence in Disabilities. She is passionate about her job, helping other parents of children with special medical needs, because of her experience and journey with her son, Daylin. Daylin acquired a brain injury at the age of 13, leaving him with significant left frontal lobe damage. Today, 8 years later, Tina speaks words of wisdo...