The Serenity Prayer   

God Grant Me the Serenity to Accept the Things I Cannot Change
• To endure and understand my child’s disability, knowing my child did not ask to be this way.
• Parents, spouses, professionals, educators, families and friend’s denial and indifference about my child’s disability. Parents are often in front of the train, and it often takes other’s light years to catch up.

Courage to Change the Things I Can
• Patience to endure their denial and the strength to constantly keep educating and advocating.
• Patience to keep my calm when people make thoughtless remarks based on their ignorance.
• Learning how to advocate and be a voice for my child.

And the Wisdom to Know the Difference
• The wisdom that we know are children better than any one else.
• The wisdom of knowing that through love, courage, understanding, education and advocacy, we as parents will be drawn closer to the light and learn the difference.

In the immortal words of our children who have be forced to sit through countless hours of speech, language, genetic, psychological, neurological testing, children who have the attention span of a flea and stand up and announce 10 minutes into testing, “I have had ENOUGH, I am DONE, get out of MY face, your HISTORY, GO AWAY …

FINIS

Our motto is quite simple, we might not always agree; but TOGETHER we will make a difference.

Talk Newsletter – Winter/Spring Issue - 1996

Taking Action Against Language Disorders in Kids

We were a support group dedicated to providing information to the public, medical and educational community on the importance or early recognition and treatment of speech and language disorders.  Communication is a privilege and not a gift.  We believed it was a gift that will help ensure a successful education, good social skills, emotional growth and the ability to lead a productive life.  We had chosen to become a voice for children with speech and language impairments and held ourselves accountable as their advocates.  TALK is no longer active.