I have been highly passionate about working with low-incidence children since I was very young. My younger sister has a rare and severe disability that qualifies her as low-incidence. I have always been highly involved in her life, and having her as my sister has helped me to realize my passion for working with individuals who have low-incidence disabilities. Outside of my sister, I have been working as a caregiver for a young girl who also has a low-incidence disability for the past seven years. When the coronavirus pandemic began, I moved in with this girl's family to provide full-time care. As schools shut down, I began to provide education for this young girl in her home. She is non-verbal, visually impaired (legally blind), has significant developmental delays, and a severe intellectual impairment. According to adaptive functioning testing, she cognitively functions around the age of a 12-18 month old at the age of 13. However, I recognize and value that this does not mean she is incapable! She is just as capable of learning and showing her strengths as everyone else; however, due to her disabilities she needs some additional support to be able to learn and show her knowledge. In our time working during the coronavirus pandemic, I taught her to answer "yes / no" questions using her hand. She now can accurately and consistently answer "yes / no" questions by shaking her hand in a thumbs up position or putting her arms in an "x" shape. Prior to working with her on these skills, she was unable to communicate in any reliable way. In addition, I worked consistently with my client on being able to identify the letters of the alphabet using a speech generating device called a NovaChat. She is able to identify all 26 letters of the alphabet when asked reliably now! I also worked on teaching her to use the NovaChat to spell her first name. While this skill has taken a considerable amount of time to master, she has almost fully mastered being able to perform this skill independently! Through working with my client, as well as my experiences with my sister, I become more and more passionate in my belief that every child is capable and worthy of an education despite the severity of their disability. While it might take a different teaching method, extra time and consistency, countless adaptations and modifications, and providing the assistive technology to help these students be successful, it is all worth it! As a future educator, I hope to one day have my own classroom serving students with low-incidence disabilities. This is my greatest passion, and I am so excited to empower my students and teach them in the ways that help them learn to show their capabilities and all of the knowledge that they already possess! Presuming competence is key, individuals with disabilities are so much more than what initially meets the eye, which is also why I am a firm believer and advocate for the disability community!