I have a son with Cerebral Palsy and from day one he's had to fight to stay alive. When It was time to inroll Greg in school our school system had nothing to offer my son. So as a parent who has a child with a disability I learn to fight for his rights! My son may have a disability BUT he has the right to be in school just as any other "normal" child.

I had my work cut out for me, here I was 18 years old with a son who had a disability. Watching him fight to stay alive and not knowing I would be fighting for him for the rest of "his" life. Not knowing what I would be facing down the road or If my son would live and if so how long would God allow us to keep this percious gift he's given us.

My son was the first severe child to enter the C.C. school system. He was 5yrs old when I first contacted the school in order to inroll him. Boy were we surprised! At first they told me he didn't have to enter school until he was 6yrs old. I knew he was able to go at the age of 5. Not knowing whatelse to expect or what the Special Ed. Dir. would say next I started doing my homework. All this was so new to us we didn't know who to call or where to go for information. LUCKLY we had a family memeber out of town that worked in the school system.

Thanks to Kathy and all her help we were given the telephone number to (PEP)Parents Educating Parents. Which then we learned by speeking with them that the school system was suppose to offer my son (PT)Physical Therarpy, (OT) Occupational Therarpy and Speech.

I contacted PEP and talked with Don Bjornstad out of Atlanta, Georgia. He was willing to come to my county and give a workshop for the parents on (IDEA) Idividual Disability Education Act. All I had to do was get the parents together. So I started calling all the parents that had called me in the past. Tried to local others who may have a child with a disability. I set the meeting up, had flyers made out, posted them all around town, put the meeting in the local newspaper and I put it on our local radio stations.