Publications
Anthologies:
“The Giving Tree”, edited by Jen Sookfong Lee & Stacey Vowels, Good Mom On Paper (Book*hug Press, May 2022)
“Untethered”, edited by Lisa Browning, Animals and Our Emotional Wellbeing: Personal Stories About Our Best Friends and Their Impacts on Our Lives (One Thousand Trees, 2021)
“Turning Down Syndrome Into Art”, edited by Penizen collective, Bad Artist anthology, (TBD, 2022)
Books:
Here We Are, Happy: a memoir (in progress) 2013 – Present
I Don’t Disability and Other Lies I’ve Told Myself: in essays (in progress) 2020 – Present
Magazines:
Empowering Women Writers: The Write Retreat, Stories, October 2021
The Wonder of Words: Second Language Learning for Individuals with Down Syndrome, 3.21 Canada’s Down Syndrome Magazine, Fall 2021
Like It’s Your Business: Building Entrepreneurial Skills Into Everyday Life, 3.21: Canada’s Down Syndrome Magazine, Summer 2021
You and Your School: Starting the year off right, 3.21: Canada’s Down Syndrome Magazine, Fall 2020
Home Sweet Home: Your Summer Staycation, 3.21: Canada’s Down Syndrome Magazine, Summer 2020
A World of Possibilities: globetrotting with Elyse, 3.21: Canada’s Down Syndrome Magazine, Spring 2020
No Holding Back: living life to the fullest with our daughter with Down syndrome, Grey Bruce Kids, Spring 2020
What I See When I Look at my Daughter with Down Syndrome, Broadview Magazine, November 4, 2019
Newspapers:
Down Syndrome Families Want Change Worth Celebrating, The Toronto Star, 2021.
An Outsider’s Perspective, The Madawaska Valley Current, 2020.
No excuses for denying education to children with Down syndrome, The Toronto Star, 2020
Should the life of my daughter with Down syndrome be valued less?, The Toronto Star, 2020
My Daughter’s Wild and Precious Life living with Down syndrome, The Toronto Star, 2018
21 Reasons I love my kid with Down syndrome, The Hamilton Spectator, 2017
A Person of Different Abilities is a Person First, The Toronto Star, 2015
Emily & I, The Hamilton Spectator, 2015
World Down Syndrome Day: Making New Friends, The Hamilton Spectator, 2014
21 Reasons why I love my baby with Down syndrome, The Hamilton Spectator, 2014
Hamilton Buddy Walk: See the ability, The Hamilton Spectator, 2013
Down Syndrome Day: Celebrate being, The Hamilton Spectator, 2013
Online Media (Guest Blogs):
On Writing Retreats, Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog, October 12, 2021
Dear New Parent Whose Baby is Hospitalized, Beyond the Beads, February 2021.
Ode to Oreo: Loss, Grief and Down Syndrome, Katiejameson.ca guest post, March 2020
When Educators Underestimate My Child with Down Syndrome, The Mighty, February 24, 2020
How We Frame the Message of a Prenatal Down Syndrome Diagnosis Matters, The Mighty, July 30, 2019
Yes, My Daughter With Down Syndrome Can Learn a Second Language, The Mighty, June 17, 2019
Freelance (Additional Projects):
ISAND Founding Story: Toward the Light
Defect, commissioned completed book proposal, 2021
Podcasts:
Adelle Purdham: Writer, Teacher, Speaker & Advocate for Those of Differing Abilities, Beyond the Beads, Episode 8-1, September 2021.
Adelle Purdham, Author and Parent – Back to School: COVID Edition, The LowDOWN: A Down Syndrome Podcast Podcast, Episode 2-1, September 2020
Radio:
La trisomie 21 au-delà des différences, CBC Radio-Canada, March 21, 2018
Some Parents Facing Challenges Enrolling Special Needs Kids Into F.F.L. Schools, by NewsTalk 1290 CJBK, August 18 2016
Talks:
“A World of Possibilities”, The World Down Syndrome Congress, Dubai, 2021
“The Power of Our Stories”, The Writer’s Union of Canada writer-in-the-school program, forthcoming, 2021
“Stories to Mend the Heart,” Canadian Down Syndrome Society Conference speaker, Victoria, B.C., 2019
“A World of Possibilities”, Speaker at various schools (daycares, elementary and secondary) and colleges (Humber and Sheridan College), as well as to various groups (church and rotary) with my friend Special Olympian Emily Boycott, educating about Down syndrome, empathy, kindness, and the power of our stories, 2012 to Present
Interviews:
The Today Show Halton, The Disability Channel, writing life TV interview with self-advocate Julia Romauldi, 2021
Les défis de la pandémie pour ceux qui vivent avec la trisomie 21 et leurs familles by Isabelle Gobeil, Radio-Canada, Ici Toronto, March 2021
Pandemic prompts fear that people with disabilities will be deprioritized for lifesaving care, by Jack Hauen, QP Briefing, April 3, 2020
Host:
Working with Pain, featuring Alison Tedford, Word Vancouver Literary Festival 2021
Diversity & Disability: Building Imaginary Worlds to Confront Issues of Social Justice, featuring Amanda Leduc & Jael Richardson, Word Vancouver Literary Festival 2021
