Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords

In the spring of 2005, Schuyler was evaluated by the diagnosticians and special educators at her school in Manor, Texas, near Austin. They c...

I’ve always known that this fall, and I mean specifically the autumn of 2017, was going to be a big deal. The numbers line up in an intere...

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:    We live in a society where rape culture isn’t just a thing, but a gigantic thing. It’s ...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   When Schuyler and I walk together, she’ll still take my hand or lean against me. She’s m...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  We push back against ableist speech, over and over again, because we hope, against all th...

I haven’t posted over here in a while, not exclusively. I’ve been engaged in a more professional weekly blogging gig at Support for Special ...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Weird? How are we measuring “weird”? What does “weird” look like for someone like Schuyl...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Those of us raising our kids in public school environments have a pretty good idea of wh...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   When I wrote about the little fish that quietly eat our kids up while we’re busy watchin...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  Schuyler was surrounded and engulfed and protected by a sea of women, and she understood,...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  In taking my own focus inward to her more immediate world and trying to help as best I ca...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   There are two kinds of deniers. There are the kind that are just goofy, like moon landin...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   I'm not going to try to pretend I'm hopeful, or that I believe the inherent good...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:    Protest forms special needs parents into people we would not otherwise be, and sometime...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  But the days roll past, and the Big Scary Thing becomes more and more background as the M...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  When Schuyler gets up tomorrow and faces her weary and deeply disheartened father, she wi...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   I hate this election season, like I hate anything that I find difficulty in explaining t...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Years from now, I hope we see these small expeditions as the beginning of Schuyler's...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   I feel like there's been a subtle shift in how people with disabilities are perceive...