This Exit, No Return
This Exit, No Return
Karen: All in all, things have a way of working out in the end, maybe not just the way I wanted the road to go or as quickly as I hoped to get there. In life, you just have to accept that there are some things you can change and some you have absolutely no control over. Just knowing I have done my best and fought for my son, I have peace with myself. Yeah, some- times I smile.
This play is dedicated to The Washington County Board of Developmental Disabilities. A special thanks to Ms. Ginger O’Conner, Director of Early Childhood Therapy. A thank you and recognition of the strength of the parent participants who loaned their feelings and voice to this project: Jill, Karen, Beth Ann and others who wish to remain anonymous.
About the author: Joy Cowdery is an Associate Professorand Chair of Education at MuskingumCollege in New Concord, Ohio. Sheholds an Ed.D. in EducationalLeadership/Critical Pedagogy and anMA in Communication from WestVirginia University and a BA in English,
Speech, and Drama from Marietta College. She coordinates the diversity program and teaches Diversity Education at Muskingum College. Cowdery is co-author of a textbook,
Building on Student Diversity: Profiles and Activities, Sage Publishers (2007), which explores the case studies of sixstudents with high incident disabilities. Her husband is visually impaired and they advocate for people with disabilities in the workplace.
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This Exit, No Return
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Karen: All in all, things have a way of working out in the end, maybe not just the way I wanted the road to go or as quickly as I hoped to get there. In life, you just have to accept that there are some things you can change and some you have absolutely no control over. Just knowing I have done my best and fought for my son, I have peace with myself. Yeah, some- times I smile.
This play is dedicated to The Washington County Board of Developmental Disabilities. A special thanks to Ms. Ginger O’Conner, Director of Early Childhood Therapy. A thank you and recognition of the strength of the parent participants who loaned their feelings and voice to this project: Jill, Karen, Beth Ann and others who wish to remain anonymous.
About the author: Joy Cowdery is an Associate Professorand Chair of Education at MuskingumCollege in New Concord, Ohio. Sheholds an Ed.D. in EducationalLeadership/Critical Pedagogy and anMA in Communication from WestVirginia University and a BA in English,
Speech, and Drama from Marietta College. She coordinates the diversity program and teaches Diversity Education at Muskingum College. Cowdery is co-author of a textbook,
Building on Student Diversity: Profiles and Activities, Sage Publishers (2007), which explores the case studies of sixstudents with high incident disabilities. Her husband is visually impaired and they advocate for people with disabilities in the workplace.
WebMD Feature from “Exceptional Parent” Magazine
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