For my final project, I decided to make a blog and a website dealing with disability transparency. Growing up as a person with disabilities, I  frequently felt alone. I felt that nobody understood my struggles, the embarrassment, and the shame that came from having a disability. I felt I had no place to turn to share my personal feelings. I wrote this blog post to bring transparency to invisible disabilities and let people with disabilities know that they are not alone in their feelings of deficiency like me.

This project relates to my coursework at American College of Education because my Master’s degree is in Special Education. As I mentioned in the blog, I discovered some of the resources that have helped me grow as a person and teacher during my time in graduate school. 

My target audience for this paper is people with disabilities, specifically ADHD, word retrieval difficulties, or dyslexia, their parents, educators, and advocates. I wrote this blog for young people with disabilities because I wish I had known these resources and been able to start utilizing them in elementary school. For the parents, educators, and advocates, this blog post and the resources I shared can help them help others with disabilities who are facing similar struggles. 

There are countless educational articles on ADHD, word retrieval difficulties, and dyslexia, that share potential struggles or symptoms of the disabilities. It was my goal to share my personal experiences and challenges and how I have overcome them through the resources I have shared and learned to love my disabilities, seeing them now as superpowers. I hope that this blog can help other people with disabilities feel empowered and proud of their own disabilities. This blog is a reminder that people with disabilities can achieve their goals and live happy, successful lives.