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Life as a Teen with Disabilities
- 1. A Picture Book of Life as an Adolescent with a Disability By Erin Breedlove
- 11. Though I began visiting GCSU in 2007 as a junior in high school, I matriculated in August, 2009.
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- My family (L to R) Me, my stepdad, my mom, and my twin sister, Caitlin, the rocks of my support and my life.
- Dr. Edward Goldstein, the doctor that diagnosed me with cerebral palsy in April of 1991 at 14 months of age.
- Dr. William R. Boydston is the neurosurgeon who has performed 5 of my 7 brain surgeries and has saved my life countless times.
- This is Spring Hill Elementary, where I attended the first through the fifth grade, and it was also where I was accepted into the gifted program at the beginning of second grade. The test was the Torrance Test for Creative Thinking.
- This is Whitewater Middle School, where I went to school from 6 th -8 th grade, and it’s also where I began to realize that teens/pre-teens could be forceful with opinions and ideas.
- This is Whitewater High School, where I ultimately discovered my love for academics and really began to find myself. I graduated from here in 2009.
- Me at 16 years old at a Spanish competition with my high school Spanish teacher
- Me at 17 years old working at a camp for children with special needs during the summer
- Me at 18 years old enjoying senior breakfast the week before high school graduation
- Though I began visiting GCSU in 2007 as a junior in high school, I matriculated in August, 2009.
- Me at 19 years old with the first best friend I’d ever had in college, Elise.
- Me at 20 years old with a good friend, Katherine.
- This is Dr. Martha Daugherty, a former professor of psychology at GCSU. She is my mentor and inspiration, and it’s because of her class two years ago that I made the decision to enter the field of educational psychology!
- This is Dr. Bonnie Cramond, who is an educational psychologist and professor of gifted and creative education at the University of Georgia. She is another mentor and dear friend who has greatly influenced my life and my study of creativity.
- This is a collage of the experience that I had presenting with the gifted and creative education program at UGA at the Georgia Association for Gifted Children Annual Conference this past March.
- This is one of my newest mentors, former student of Bonnie, who is an internationally acclaimed researcher in creativity, Dr. Kyung Hee Kim.
- I hope to attend graduate school at UGA in educational psychology with a concentration in gifted and creative education. Pictured above is Aderhold Hall, UGA’s college of education, Bonnie Cramond, my future graduate adviser, E. Paul Torrance, the father of creativity and professor emeritus at UGA, and Uga, the Bulldog mascot.