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Empowering Our Community for Students Who Learn Differently
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Saturday, May 17
 

9:00am EDT

Opening Keynote: The Long Road Together - Hope, Heart, and Holding On
Saturday May 17, 2025 9:00am - 10:10am EDT
In this keynote address, Sarena and Raphael will share their family's journey through autism, chronicled on www.onaisle9.com and explored more deeply in their latest book, I Don't Want To Talk About It: A Journalist's Essays on Autism, Dementia, Religion, and God. Through personal stories and hard-earned lessons, they will explore how community, communication, and commitment are the pillars that carry special needs families forward. It will be a message of encouragement, resilience, and the surprising beauty found when we hold on, hold each other up, and keep walking.
Speakers
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Raphael James

Raphael James is a news anchor at WCSC-TV Live 5 News in Charleston. He has delivered the news to Lowcountry viewers for the past twenty-two years. He too, is a graduate of Paine College in Augusta, Georgia where the two fell in love.He and his wife, Sarena, have three beautiful children... Read More →
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Sarena James

Sarena James is a woman of many skills. She is an author, playwright, mother, and wife. Her joy and pain, have become the ink used to create works of art from the heart. She is a graduate of Paine College in Augusta, Georgia.She and her husband, Raphael, have three beautiful children... Read More →
Saturday May 17, 2025 9:00am - 10:10am EDT
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