VIDEO: Parenting Without Pity

#ParentingWithoutPity is a storytelling project where disabled parents offer compassionate and frank advice and guidance to non-disabled parents of disabled children. We draw from our own experience of disability to help non-disabled parents be better allies for their disabled children.

Visit the extended video trailer page for a more in-depth view of the parents and the series page for short biographies of the twenty-two parents and children featured in the series.


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