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Essays on disability, health, access, public policy, and faith.
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Disability and inclusion
Thirteen personal essays on access, expectations, belonging, and the difference between being present and being included.
Cerebral palsy in adulthood
Six essays on experience, adaptation, care, and the questions that continue beyond childhood.
Ulnar nerve recovery
Seven essays following surgery, recovery, and the questions that came afterward.
How a Voice Takes Shape
Six pieces return to early poems, teachers, family, and the encouragement that helped Wiley’s Walk begin. Together, they show how the subjects and confidence behind the writing changed over time.
Five Essays on Change and Adaptation
Routines, shoes, a question about purpose, a poem, and a pear tree bring five different views of change together.
Recent writing
Start with an essay: Cerebral Palsy Is Lifelong. Is the Care? examines the gap between childhood diagnosis and finding knowledgeable adult care.
- Four and a Half HoursA last-minute appointment change can create far more than a new time on the calendar. This essay looks at the transportation, work, care, and coordination that may have to shift around a change of only a few hours.
- How A Voice Takes ShapeEarly poems, teachers, family, and the encouragement behind Wiley’s Walk come together in six pieces about how a writing voice develops over time.
- Cerebral Palsy in Adulthood: Six EssaysSix essays consider cerebral palsy in adulthood through movement, adaptation, care, and changes that become clearer over time.
- Revisiting Change, Adaptation, and What Comes NextFive essays revisit change, adaptation, and the moments when an established approach no longer fits. Together, they consider how routines, choices, and expectations shift as circumstances change.
- The Expanded Inclusion CollectionThirteen essays examine access, assumptions, belonging, and what it takes to participate in decisions and spaces shaped by others.
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