New podcast episode: Climbing the Mountain Without a Guide

It feels that you're climbing a mountain, without a guide or a backpack...and some days the sun isn't even shining.

Dr. Norrine Russell discusses her feelings and challenges that she experienced early on as she navigated life with her two complex children.

A lack of support and resources nearby led her to start a local support group in the Tampa Bay area. She would go on to found Russell Coaching for children and young adults with ADHD, autism, learning differences, anxiety and giftedness.

Adjusting the Sails is a podcast about the lives and specific challenges children with special healthcare needs and other disabilities face along with their families, caregivers and service providers, and how to manage those challenges. The podcast is a platform for all disability-related topics to be discussed and serves as a mediator between families and caregivers, allowing them to share their stories and experiences. Adjusting the Sails features guest speakers, panelists and a variety of program representatives and service providers to offer education and training to the listener.

This podcast is sponsored by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, Office of Maternal, Child, and Family Health/Children with Special Health Care Needs Program and the West Virginia Family 2 Family Health Information Center and produced by the West Virginia University Center for Excellence in Disabilities.

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