The Church News has provided an excellent review of this presentation available here.

As part of the Men and Women of Faith series sponsored by the Church History Library Dr. Bryce Fifield will be giving a presentation titled The Untold Story of Mormon Pioneers with Disabilities on June 14, 2012 at 7:00 PM at the Church Office Building Main Floor Auditorium.

The Department of Counseling Psychology and Special Education at Brigham Young University is hiring for a faculty position, moderate to severe disabilities. If you are interested in the position you can download the job description here. If you now anyone else who might be interested, please help share the news.

Are you interested helping the Disability Services office at the Church Office building? If you are retired or have 15-25 hours a week, please check out this listing for an assistant to Disability Services. The post reads:

Josh, over at Modern Mormon Men the Manly Mommy Blog provides a heartfelt recounting of how their family came to understand that one of their sons has Asperger's Syndrome and how it has affected their family. He recounts some advice given to him by a friend:

The father of a Ethan, a young man with autism begins his story by recounting a visit from their bishop to discuss their son receiving the priesthood:

"Well, as we sat and discuss this for nearly an hour, Bishop Noble said (and I'm paraphrasing), "I think we should ordain Ethan. Not just for him, but for the ward. I think it would be a great thing for the ward to be able to see him passing the sacrament and experience him. In fact, I hope he does have a meltdown while passing the sacrament..."

"Are you kidding me!?!

"That's right,

"I hope he does have a meltdown while passing the sacrament."

With Him We'll Stand is a beautiful book by Ray Johnson about his two brothers Stuart and Nathanael who were born nearly 16 weeks premature. The story includes beautiful paper collage illustrations as a backdrop to the words of the hymn, I Believe in Christ.