Webinars
Upcoming Webinars
Home Accessibility for Successful Parenting
The National Research Center for Parents with Disabilities is holding its latest webinar on Home Accessibility for Successful Parenting.
Panelists include Robin Wilson-Beattie, Keith Jones, Kristin Wilks, and Patrick Cokley.
The webinar will be held on April 17 at 2 p.m. ET.
Past Webinars
Disabled Parents' Adoption Experiences
Date: November 10, 2025
People with disabilities can face barriers and stigma when adopting kids. In this webinar, facilitated by researcher and adoptive parent Kara Ayers, we heard from two disabled parents, Robin Wilson-Beattie and Yomi Young, about their experiences with adoption. They shared what they wish they knew before navigating adoption, what support helped them, and what professionals should know about adoptive disabled parents and families.
Access the webinar recording, Disabled Parents' Adoption Experiences
Read our one-page summary about this webinar
Supporting Parents with Disabilities: An Overview for Social Service Providers
Created by NRCPD investigator Dr. Elizabeth Lightfoot of the School of Social Work at Arizona State University (ASU), this video training provides social workers and other social service providers with an introduction to effectively supporting parents with disabilities. It offers practical and evidence-based information for those working in child protection, family support, disability services, schools, health, and behavioral health care settings, and related fields who want to improve outcomes for families with a disabled parent.
The video describes the historical and policy context of social work services with parents with disabilities, core concepts and frameworks social service providers should be aware of when working with parents with disabilities, evidence-based and promising practices that support parents with disabilities, and best practice recommendations.
Please find a companion guidebook to the video in both English and Spanish here: https://sites.google.com/asu.edu/lizlightfoot/home/parents-with-disabilities.
Disaster Preparedness for Parents with Disabilities
Date: July 21, 2025
Panelists: Melissa Marshall, Shari Myers, & Judy Brown
People with disabilities are often excluded from conversations about emergency preparedness. This includes parents with disabilities who need to keep themselves and their children safe during a disaster. In this webinar, we learn from Shari Myers and Melissa Marshall from the Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies about preparedness best practices and from National Research Center for Parents with Disabilities' Advisory Board member Judy Brown about her personal experiences.
Access the Webinar Recording: Disaster Preparedness for Parents with Disabilities
Access the webinar slides for Disaster Preparedness for Parents with Disabilities
You may also wish to consult our parent support resource page on disaster preparedness:
Access the Disaster Preparedness for Parents with Disabilities resource page
Using the Disability Data Dashboards to Advance Policy and Advocacy
Date: July 10, 2025
The Lurie Institute’s Disability Data Dashboards offer crucial information in easy-to-understand and accessible ways. The dashboards can serve as helpful, efficient, and time-saving tools for disability policy advocates across the United States. In this webinar, we discussed our two dashboards, the Parents with Disabilities Dashboard and the Community Living Dashboard, live demo-ing how they work, what information they show, and what the metrics mean.
Access the Recording: Using the Disability Data Dashboards to Advance Policy & Advocacy
Access the Slides from the Disability Data Dashboard Webinar
Keeping Families Together Training: Using Disability Law To Defend Disabled Parents
Dates: May, 7 and 14, 2025
Presenters: Kavya Parthiban, Robyn Powell, Ayesha Elaine Lewis, and Linda Long-Bellil (Facilitator)
- Download Training #1 (May 7) PowerPoint Slides
- Watch training #1 on YouTube
- Download Training #2 (May 14) PowerPoint Slides
- Watch training #2 on YouTube
Strategies for Supporting Parents with Disabilities when there is Child Protection Involvement
Date: Thursday, January 30, 2025
Panelists: Drs. Liz Lightfoot & Kara Ayers
An overview of ableism and discrimination within child protection and strategies for addressing these injustices. Presenters are Dr. Elizabeth Lightfoot, Distinguished Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Arizona State University School of Social Work, and Dr. Kara Ayers, Associate Professor at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
Living with Anxiety as a Disabled Parent
Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Panelists: Judith Brown & Jenny Senda
This webinar recording discusses the anxiety of new parenthood from the viewpoint of two disabled mothers. Both generalized anxiety disorder among disabled parents as well as the day-to-day anxieties of parenting with a disability when parents often experience stigma and ableism at both a structural and personal level are discussed.
"I challenge them a bit": Encounters between Parents with Disabilities and the Medical Institution
Date: March 6, 2024
Panelists: Florencia Herrera and Andrea Rojas
In this lecture, Florencia Herrera and Andrea Rojas explored how barriers, particularly those of an attitudinal nature, are reflected in concrete encounters between parents with disabilities and medical personnel and hamper care for their children or during pregnancy.
People with disabilities face particular additional barriers of access to health care. Drs. Herrera and Rojas explored how these barriers increase when parents with disabilities require medical attention for their children. Using the small story research technique, they analyzed 38 interviews with disabled parents conducted as part of a qualitative-narrative study in Chile. They identified stories in which the participants describe encounters with the medical institution in which they are invisibilized and disempowered. A medical model of disability, which actively ignores how to interact with people with disabilities, prevails among health personnel. Parents with disabilities irritate the medical institution because they do not have ‘standard’ bodies and are in the position of the carers of others (their children), rather than that of people who require care. These parents develop strategies to resist the way they are treated, making extra efforts to obtain medical attention for their children.
The Role of the HHS Office for Civil Rights in Advancing Rights for Disabled Parents: Safeguards in Child Welfare Cases
Date: January 30, 2024
Panelists: Carla Carter of the HHS Office for Civil Rights and Robyn Powell of the NRCPD
The National Research Center for Parents with Disabilities hosted a webinar on how the Office for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) can apply safeguards in child welfare cases and protect the rights of disabled parents.
Access the recording of The Role of the OCR in Advancing Disabled Parents' Rights
Strategies to Support Parents with Psychiatric Disabilities with Child Welfare Involvement: Perspectives from Staff Providing Legal Services
Date: October 19, 2023
Panelists: Robyn Powell, Ron Ayler, and Alex Dutton
Moderator: Miriam Heyman
This webinar explored the experiences of parents with psychiatric disabilities with child welfare involvement, including barriers and facilitators to positive outcomes. Researchers from the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy provided background information about the disproportionate representation of parents with psychiatric disabilities within the child welfare system, and issues that these parents frequently confront. Through a conversation with staff providing legal services to parents, we identified how legal staff and other service providers can meaningfully support parents.
Multiplying the Challenge: Parenting as a Disabled Immigrant
Date: August 22, 2023
Panelists: Jennifer Senda & Angelica Garcia
Facilitator: Luanjiao Aggie Hu
Parents with disabilities are a diverse group. In this webinar, our panelists are disabled immigrants and will talk about how citizenship and immigration statuses affect their lives when they take on parental roles, a topic that is less discussed and heard in public spaces.
Reproductive Health and Perinatal Care Needs of People with Intellectual Disabilities
Many clinicians have little experience caring for people with intellectual disabilities (ID), particularly in addressing their needs regarding reproductive health and pregnancy. In this webinar, Drs. Susan Ernst and Melanie Ornstein described the reproductive health and perinatal care needs of people with ID. They discussed how to approach issues such as communication, preconception counseling, and specific considerations for pregnancy, labor and delivery and postpartum care.
Disabled Parenting within Multigenerational Families
January 31, 2023
Multigenerational households are defined as three generations or more, living together. Common throughout time, and across different cultures, the number of multigenerational family households in the US has been on the rise since the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to service gaps in home and community-based services and other factors, many adults with disabilities, including those who are parents, may continue to live with their families of origin.
This webinar explored the experiences of disabled parents living within multigenerational households. Our two parent panelists, Judith Brown and Jennifer Senda, shared the successes and challenges they have experienced while living in multigenerational households with their children. The policy implications of this type of living arrangement were also discussed.
Access the webinar recording for Disabled Parenting within Multigenerational Families
Disabled Parents in the NICU
June 7, 2022
What can happen when a parent with a disability faces a lengthy stay in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with their baby? This webinar featured two disabled parent panelists (Kristie Lewis and Patrick Cokley) whose babies were born prematurely and were admitted to the NICU. The panelists shared their stories about the challenges and successes they encountered during that time when navigating an environment that is not at all built with disability in mind. Our parent panelists also explored the role that implicit bias and ableism may have had in interactions with their babies' care team, and in parenting their babies in the NICU. Our faculty speaker, Dr. Paige Church of Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, spoke about the ingrained nature of implicit bias within the NICU, how this can adversely affect families, and how we can better care for families headed by disabled parents during this most vulnerable time.
Black, Disabled, Deaf, & Proud
Date: March 30, 2022
Featuring: Heather Watkins, Morénike Giwa-Onaiwu, and Earl Allen
Facilitator: Linda Long-Bellil
Parents and Parenting with Disabilities: Perspectives from Chile
Three Chilean disability researchers discussed their work, experience, and perspectives on parents and parenting with disabilities in Chile. The webinar included an English-Spanish translator.
Jimena Luna is a civil industrial engineer and Project Coordinator at CEDETi UC. Soledad Véliz has a doctorate in education from Pontifical Catholic University of Chile; she is a CEDETi UC researcher. Florencia Herrera holds a doctorate in social and cultural anthropology from the University of Barcelona and is Director of Núcleo DISCA.
Reproductive Health and Perinatal Care Needs of People with Intellectual Disabilities
Many clinicians have little experience caring for people with intellectual disabilities (ID), particularly in addressing their needs regarding reproductive health and pregnancy. In this webinar, Drs. Susan Ernst and Melanie Ornstein described the reproductive health and perinatal care needs of people with ID. They discussed how to approach issues such as communication, preconception counseling, and specific considerations for pregnancy, labor and delivery and postpartum care.
Disabled Parenting within Multigenerational Families
January 31, 2023 at 12 p.m. EST
Multigenerational households are defined as three generations or more, living together. Common throughout time, and across different cultures, the number of multigenerational family households in the US has been on the rise since the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to service gaps in home and community-based services and other factors, many adults with disabilities, including those who are parents, may continue to live with their families of origin.
This webinar explored the experiences of disabled parents living within multigenerational households. Our two parent panelists, Judith Brown and Jennifer Senda, shared the successes and challenges they have experienced while living in multigenerational households with their children. The policy implications of this type of living arrangement were also discussed.
Disabled Parents in the NICU
June 7, 2022
What can happen when a parent with a disability faces a lengthy stay in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with their baby? This webinar featured two disabled parent panelists (Kristie Lewis and Patrick Cokley) whose babies were born prematurely and were admitted to the NICU. The panelists shared their stories about the challenges and successes they encountered during that time when navigating an environment that is not at all built with disability in mind. Our parent panelists also explored the role that implicit bias and ableism may have had in interactions with their babies' care team, and in parenting their babies in the NICU. Our faculty speaker, Dr. Paige Church of Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, spoke about the ingrained nature of implicit bias within the NICU, how this can adversely affect families, and how we can better care for families headed by disabled parents during this most vulnerable time.
Black, Disabled, Deaf, & Proud
Date: March 30, 2022
Featuring: Heather Watkins, Morénike Giwa-Onaiwu, and Earl Allen
Facilitator: Linda Long-Bellil
The Role of Disabled and Deaf Fathers in the Family
Date: September 28, 2021
Featuring: Kevin Irvine, Earl Allen, and Dominick Evans.
Facilitator: Linda Long-Bellil, PhD, JD
Perspectives of Parents with Disabilities: Reflections from Advisory Board Members of the National Research Center for Parents with Disabilities
Date: June 16, 2021
Featuring: Nicole Lomerson, Morénike Giwa-Onaiwu, and Maureen Martowska
The National Research Center for Parents with Disabilities presents its State-of-the-Science teleconference, including discussions about peer support, the child welfare system, and other topics about disability, parenthood, civil rights, and self-advocacy. This is the third of three webinars.
Reimagining a Child Welfare System That Works for Parents with Disabilities and Their Families
Date: June 9, 2021
Featuring: Robyn M. Powell, PhD, JD; Liz Lightfoot, PhD, MSW; and Sarah Lorr, JD
The National Research Center for Parents with Disabilities presents its State-of-the-Science teleconference, including discussions about peer support, the child welfare system, and other topics about disability, parenthood, civil rights, and self-advocacy. This is the second of three webinars.
Peers Have Much to Offer Parents: Leveraging the Benefits of Lived Experience
Date: June 2, 2021
Featuring: Joanne Nicholson, PhD; Anne Whitman, PhD, Certified Peer Specialist; and Sandra Whitney-Sarles, MS, Peer Consultant
The National Research Center for Parents with Disabilities presents its State-of-the-Science teleconference, including discussions about peer support, the child welfare system, and other topics about disability, parenthood, civil rights, and self-advocacy. This is the first of three webinars.
Coping with COVID: Parenting with a Disability during a Pandemic
Date: January 26, 2021
Featuring: Kara Ayers, Nicole Lomerson, and Morénike Giwa-Onaiwu
Supporting the Lives of Children of Disabled Parents
Date: Thursday April 2, 2020
Time: 2:00-3:00pm EST
Presenters: Erin E. Andrews, PsyD, ABPP & Kara B. Ayers, PhD; Co-Founders of the Disabled Parenting Project
Passing State Legislation to Protect the Rights of Parents with Disabilities
Date: Monday July 27, 2020
Time: 3:00pm EST
Presenters:
Robyn Powell; Kimberly Tissot, Executive Director of Able South Carolina; and Senator Sara Gelser (Oregon)
Little People and Parenting
Today's LP Parenting Perspective: Parenting from newborn to young adults
Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Time: 12:00-1:00pm EST
Presenters: Laura Stout, Kelly Lee, Francisca Winston
This program was Approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Approval # 886742820-4685) for 1 continuing education contact hour.
Making the Most of Early Intervention (EI) Services
Presenters: Linda Long-Bellil, Morénike Giwa-Onaiwu, MA Nicole Lomerson, MPH, Patti Fougere, BA, MBA
Wednesday, November 13, 2019 at 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
This webinar described how early intervention (EI) services can support families when one or more parents has a disability. It provided an overview of the key principles guiding EI services and the types of services that EI programs provide. This webinar also included real-life stories from parents with disabilities about how EI services benefited their families.
This program was Approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Approval # 886742820-1248) for 1 continuing education contact hour.
Maximizing Motherhood with Technology:
Personal and Professional Perspectives on Using Technology to Support Parenting
A Webinar in Recognition of Mothers’ Day
Wednesday, May 8, 2019 at 12:00-1:00 pm EST
Facilitator: Linda Long-Bellil
Parents & prospective parents learned about how technology can be used to support parenting with psychiatric and physical disabilities. The speakers shared their personal and professional experiences about the use of online apps and equipment that can be used “off the shelf” or which can be adapted to meet a family’s needs. Social Workers learned directly from parents with disabilities about their needs and the technologies and equipment available to support their parenting.
Disability Rights and Parenting with a Disability
Wednesday April 17, 2019 at 2:00-3:00pm EST
Presenter: Robyn Powell
This webinar discussed how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) protects the rights of parents with disabilities. Parents and prospective parents with disabilities learned about disability rights laws and their application to the child welfare system, family law, adoption and foster care, and reproductive health care. Social workers and others who support parents with disabilities gained an understanding of the rights of parents with disabilities as well as how to ensure these families are afforded their rights.
Peers Support Parenting Well
Presenters: Joanne Nicholson, Rob Walker, Anne Valentine
January 29, 2019 at 2:00-3:00pm EST
Peer supports may be particularly relevant and useful to parents with psychiatric disabilities. The purposeful disclosure of shared lived experience, combined with practical knowledge and systems expertise contribute to relationship engagement and inform ongoing conversations as peers partner with parents to meet needs and address goals. The proposed model of parent peer supports includes four core elements: engage, explore, plan, and access/advocate. Creating organizational capacity and coping with challenges in providing peer supports will be discussed, with recommendations for training, coaching and on-going support for peers and parents. The ParentingWell practice approach will be introduced as a model for shifting the system’s paradigm to a family focus in adult mental health services.
Blindness and Parenting - Myths, Challenges and Practical Advice
Presenters: Michael Bullis, Melissa Ann Riccobono, Imani Graham
February 21, 2019 at 1:00-2:30pm EST
Three blind parents discuss the how-to’s of parenting with vision loss.
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What are the practical alternative techniques parents who are blind use to do what would otherwise be done with sight?
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From infancy to young adult-hood, Melissa Riccobono, Imani Graham and Mike Bullis, explain everything from changing diapers, feeding and dressing to schools, homework and transportation.
Know Your Rights: Advocacy Strategies for Parents with Disabilities
Facilitated by Robyn Powell, MA, JD
July 24, 2018
In recognition of the 28thanniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, this webinar focused on the rights of parents and prospective parents with disabilities. Presenters provided a brief overview of disability rights laws, and their application to families. Based on their own experiences, presenters shared advocacy strategies for ensuring accessibility throughout the community, such as in schools and health care facilities. Social workers, and others who support parents with disabilities, will gain an understanding of these families and their rights by learning directly from parents with disabilities about their needs and experiences.
For Parents
Know Your Rights: Advocacy Strategies for Parents with Disabilities
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Know Your Rights: Advocacy Strategies for Parents with Disabilities
Facilitated by Robyn Powell, MA, JD
Panelists:
Morénike Giwa-Onaiwu, Julie Kegley, and Julie Petty
Tuesday July 24, 2018 at 2:00-3:30pm EST
In recognition of the 28thanniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, this webinar focused on the rights of parents and prospective parents with disabilities. Presenters provided a brief overview of disability rights laws, and their application to families. Based on their own experiences, presenters shared advocacy strategies for ensuring accessibility throughout the community, such as in schools and health care facilities. Social workers, and others who support parents with disabilities, will gain an understanding of these families and their rights by learning directly from parents with disabilities about their needs and experiences.
This program was Approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Approval #: 886742820-3476) for 1.5 continuing education contact hour.
Deaf Parents' Approaches to Parenting
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Deaf Parents' Approaches to Parenting
Presenters: John Pirone & Mike McKee
Friday June 8, 2018 at 1:00-2:30pm EST
Deaf parents and prospective Deaf parents learned about approaches to parenting with regard to communication/language, community engagement, and technology. Deaf parents and prospective Deaf parents also learned about how to work with their child's health care providers, how to raise a healthy and happy child, considerations regarding immunizations and safety, as well as challenges and strategies. Social workers will learn about the needs and experiences of Deaf parents from experts in the field who are members of the D/HH community.
This webinar was presented in ASL.
An ASL to English interpreter and CART services were available.
Raising Our Girls: Stories from Mothers with Disabilities and Daughters Who've Been There
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Raising Our Girls: Stories from Mothers with Disabilities and Daughters Who've Been There
Facilitated by Linda Long-Bellil, PhD, JD
Panelists:
Andrea Higgins and her daughters, Jackie Higgins Guzman & Nikki Higgins
Ellen Ladau and her daughter Emily Ladau
Tuesday May 8, 2018 at 12:00-1:00pm EST
Parents and prospective parents with disabilities learned about considerations for pursuing motherhood, strategies used by mothers with physical disabilities to raise their children, the perspectives of adult children of mothers with disabilities and resources for parenting with a disability. Social Workers learned directly from parents with disabilities about their needs and experiences.
This program was Approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Approval # 886742820-8595) for 1 continuing education contact hour.
For Prospective Parents
How Prospective Parents with Disabilities Can Prepare for Parenthood
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How Prospective Parents with Disabilities Can Prepare for Parenthood
Kara Ayers, Ph.D. and Erin Andrews, Psy.D., ABPP
Wednesday April 11, 2018 at 1:00-2:00pm EST
This webinar focused on strategies for prospective parents with disabilities to prepare themselves and their families for parenthood. Presenters discussed the initial considerations of conception and adoption, and explore preliminary consultation in order to identify disability affirmative service providers. Participants learned how to identify peer support among disability parenting communities to utilize for advice and support. The early identification of adaptive parenting tools and resources was emphasized.
This webinar is for people with disabilities who want to become parents. We talked about ways to prepare for parenthood, including:
- Pregnancy and adoption
- Scheduling a family planning appointment
- Finding disability-friendly service providers
- Creating a support network with disability parenting communities
Learning Objectives:
After participating in this webinar, participants will be able to
- Identify a variety of adaptive parenting tools and resources
- Research and select a disability-friendly provider
- Locate and access disability parenting communities and the benefits they provide
- Understand the advantages of family planning consultations and identify topics to discuss during the visit
For Social Workers
Family Mental Health Begins with Parents
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Family Mental Health Begins with Parents
Joanne Nicholson, Ph.D.
Wednesday March 14, 2018 at 2:00-3:00pm EST
Many parents experience a mental health condition in their lifetime. Likewise, the majority of individuals living with mental illnesses are parents. Families are the focus of mental health promotion, mental illness prevention, treatment & rehabilitation. Social workers will learn about different types of interventions for parents with mental illness and their families, the advantages of leveraging access to mainstream resources, and the need to enhance existing practices to make them parent-informed and family-focused. Recognize the importance of parenting and families in promoting community inclusion, and the contribution of community inclusion to rehabilitation and recovery.
This program was approved by the National Association of Social Workers (approval # 886742820-6832) for 1 continuing education contact hour.
Working with Parents with Intellectual Disabilities and Their Families: Strategies and Solutions for Social Workers
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Working with Parents with Intellectual Disabilities and Their Families: Strategies and Solutions for Social Workers
Robyn Powell, MA, JD
Tuesday November 14, 2017 at 3:00pm-4:00pm EST
This free webinar with Robyn Powell, MA, JD provided information about how to best work with parents with intellectual disabilities and their families, including the definition of intellectual disabilities, background information on parents with disabilities, the application of disability law in the child welfare system, strategies for supporting families, and how to conduct accessible and appropriate parenting assessments. Continuing education credits were be provided by NASW.
Working with Parents with Intellectual Disabilities and Their Families: Strategies and Solutions for Social Workers
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Working with Parents with Intellectual Disabilities and Their Families: Strategies and Solutions for Social Workers
Robyn Powell, MA, JD
Wednesday September 27, 2017 at 2:00pm EST
Learn about how to best work with parents with intellectual disabilities and their families, including the definition of intellectual disabilities, background information on parents with disabilities, the application of disability law in the child welfare system, strategies for supporting families, and how to conduct accessible and appropriate parenting assessments.
This program was approved by the National Association of Social Workers (approval # 886742820-6926) for 1 continuing education contact hour.
For Mental Health Practitioners
The ParentingWell Practice Framework: Having Conversations with Parents about Mental Health, Wellness, and Family Life
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The ParentingWell Practice Framework: Having Conversations with Parents about Mental Health, Wellness, and Family Life
Joanne Nicholson, PhDKelley English, PhD, LICSWMonday June 11, 2018
Learn rationale for talking with parents about family life, mental health and recovery, common misconceptions about these topics, key questions to ask in conversations about parenting and wellness, potential challenges for implementation in your practice, and ways to overcome those challenges.
For Attorneys
Representing Parents with Intellectual Disabilities and their Families: Strategies and Solutions for Attorneys
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Representing Parents with Intellectual Disabilities and their Families: Strategies and Solutions for Attorneys
Robyn Powell, MA, JD
Wednesday February 21, 2018 at 2:00-3:00pm EST
Learn about how to best work with parents with intellectual disabilities and their families, including the definition of intellectual disabilities, background information on parents with disabilities, the application of disability law in the child welfare system, recent case law, information about accessible and appropriate parenting assessments, and strategies for representing parents with intellectual disabilities and their families.
In the Media
Parents With Disabilities Face Obstacles To Keep Their Children
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Parents With Disabilities Face Obstacles To Keep Their Children
Thursday January 18, 2018 at 4:30pm EST
Robyn Powell was on Wisconsin Public Radio discussing the obstacles parents with disabilities face to keep their children. Listen to the interview!
From WPR: Parents with disabilities are disproportionately involved in the child welfare system compared to non-disabled parents. They're also more likely to have their parental rights terminated once involved. In October, a lawsuit was filed on behalf of five parents who feel they have been discriminated against by New York's Administration for Child Services. We take a look at the issue with our guest.
There's a lot of Pressure on Mothers to be Perfect
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There's a lot of Pressure on Mothers to be Perfect
Robyn Powell was featured in a video by Divided States of Women in January 2018 about the pressures mothers with disabilities face in everyday life. Watch the video!