Pamela Wilson is a Pacific Northwest writer well known as an advocate for children with disabilities and their families. You may have enjoyed her articles on childhood disabilities, family issues, education and support in mainstream parenting publications as well as children´s software and tech review columns in Seattle area publications.

Everyone is welcome here. The Special Needs Children website aims to be a resource for friends, neighbors, extended family, medical or education professionals, and advocates who seek and share accurate, helpful information.

Together, we can create a community that values and celebrates each child, and every stage of development. Our children amaze us with what they can do given the opportunities they find in life. We can all enjoy some fun, friendship and laughter along the way.

Pamela started her writing career when she was still an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, working as a research assistant in the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

She was inspired to start writing about children and family issues following the birth of her daughter. This naturally expanded when her son was born with Down syndrome, and again at the age of 7 when he developed insulin dependent diabetes. Meeting and getting to know other children with disabilities and their parents who reached out with friendship and support set her on a path to pay their kindness and insights forward. Medical and education professionals and other experts in their fields have been very generous in sharing advice and strategies to create better opportunities and accommodations for babies, children and teens with special needs.

Pamela has been active in organizing parent and community support for mainstream as well as childhood disability groups; promoting inclusion, diversity and multicultural awareness. She earned the PTA Golden Acorn award for volunteering in special education preschool and kindergarten PTA activities and mainstream classrooms. She has been active in Campfire, Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts, little league, girls softball and other organizations. Pamela has served on a city Human Services Advisory Committee, Housing Task Force and volunteered as a community partner in a neighborhood law enforcement grant program, and recommends that ten percent of the disability advocacy community enroll in local CERT programs for Community Emergency Response Training.

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