SMA Awareness Month – Day 22 – Why Saying “Cure” May Harm Your Child
Dominick explores the cure mentality, in relation to caregivers, and how it can affect the self esteem of children with SMA or other disabilities.
Dominick explores the cure mentality, in relation to caregivers, and how it can affect the self esteem of children with SMA or other disabilities.
Dominick discusses the entire idea behind cure mentality, in further detail, specifically relating it to disability culture.
Dominick discusses a type of abuse he endured, as a teenager, the abuse of bargaining.
Dominick explains how different he would be if he did not have Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA).
Dominick explains how you can help him continue to LIVE with SMA in this vastly inaccessible world.
Survivor’s Guilt is one of those unspoken parts of having a disease like SMA. Dominick breaks down what it is.
Dominick discusses how people with SMA must find the balance between being realistic about progression and the desire and drive for an independent life.
Dominick encourages parents of kids with SMA and other disabilities to help them attain independence.
Dominick explains what cure mentality is and why it is harmful to people with disabilities.
Dominick discusses how parents should treat their kids with SMA. He looks at how capable people with SMA are.