Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  Social justice warrior. SJW, to use the not-quite-clever abbreviation. Why would that eve...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   When we can't pass and disappear into the world of the typical, the internet communi...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  Dignity isn't a treat for the fortunate. It's a basic human right, one that you g...

This week at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   When we talk about a disability community, what I think we're really describing ...

This week at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   I'd like to suggest a new attitude as we begin a new year. There's a lot of ...

Amanda Morin and Robert Rummel-Hudson join The Inclusive Class Podcast this week! Amanda Morin is an advocate and author of The Everything ...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   We are so convinced that we have a right to know and understand every single scenario th...

Today at Support for Special Needs : For parent advocates, there are rules now, I am told, for the things that we can and cannot say. Brea...

Today, at Support for Special Needs : If there's anything that social media seems to do the most easily, it is to serve as a great mac...

Today at Support for Special Needs : I watch the disability community again and again choose to address its issues by forming up into circ...

‎Today, at Support for Special Needs : "I once believed that a larger sense of community would benefit us all, that the rising tide r...

It's election season in the United States. This is a very special time for the people of this country, an opportunity to come together t...

My latest post at Support for Special Needs discusses a little exchange I had on Twitter last week, ostensibly about Schuyler's school ...

Today's post at Support for Special Needs continues last week's Bigfoot/Yeti/Nessie theme (well, it was a theme in my head, anyw...

On Facebook the other day, I made a statement in regards to the rapper 50 Cent and his ugly Tweets in which he used autism and special edu...

It began, like so many silly things do here in the heady days of The Future, with a comment I made on Facebook. "I lost ten pounds in...

When we talk about the dehumanization of people with disabilities, there's a general dismay that receives a certain amount of lip servic...

It's Monday, which this time means I'm at SXSW in Austin ( the Prodigal Son returns! ) speaking on a panel , and also that there'...

Here's a donut if you didn't get one. Happy Monday, friends. I hope you got some donuts. If it's Monday, it must be time fo...

It's Monday, and that can only mean one thing (besides renewing your secret desire to burn down your place of employment). Yes, it's...