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Trish with Steven and Diana

Meet the Webmaster...

Trish Day is a mom with a disability on a mission. When her own child, Diana Michelle, was born in 1996, information, support, and resources for parents with disabilities were not readily available. The reources that did exist were hard to find, and word of mouth was the only means of sharing information.

She and her husband, John, started "Diana Michelle's Home Page: The Internet's One-stop Resource for Parents with Disabilities in May of 1996. It became immediately obvious that the need for such information existed, and the site has grew exponentially through the support of others in the following years. In May 2000, Trish expanded that site to its own domain, which is its present home at Parents with Disabilities Online

Trish is especially grateful to her own Mommy-mentor, Nancy, who fell from the sky and into her life during Thanksgiving week, 1995. Nancy showed Trish that being a mom with a disability was, in fact, "ok," and encouraged her to share knowledge and information with others.

About Our Logo...

The logo art featured throughout this website was generously created by Dan Wilkins of The Nth Degree, a progressive, forward-thinking graphic design company geared toward issues related to the independent living movement, inclusion, diversity, and disability rights movements. Aside from being a dad, husband, friend, chair-user, artist, writer, graphic designer, humorist, Browns fan and a million other things, Dan Wilkins, is an outspoken advocate, story teller and visionary for people living with disabilities and the culture to which they belong. Since 1989, he has been sharing stories and ideas in workshops, breakouts, keynotes, chautauquas and roundtables, formal and informal, for students from pre-school (tough crowd) to doctorate, parents, professionals in business, human service and allied health, educators and administrators, and folks with disabilities on a broad range of topics from disability and diversity awareness, advocacy and self-advocacy, to the importance of humor, inclusion, community and seeing through bigger eyes.

A Few Words About Web Access

If you don't know what we're talking about, you're behind the times. Please visit the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative site. We have made every effort to make this site as accessible to as many individuals with disabilities as we can. We realize, however, that even we, as proponents of access for all, may fall short of 100% accessibility. If you have problems using this site, please let us know, and we will make every effort to make our resources and information available to you.

The Web Access Symbol indicates that this page is designed to be accessible to people with disabilities. For more information, see "About This Site" or contact the National Center for Accessible Media. If you have any accessibility problems with this page, let us know by sending us an email.