Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords

Today is the seventeenth anniversary of Schuyler 's diagnosis of polymicrogyria. There have been times in the past seventeen years when ...

There’s a dream I’ve had repeatedly in my life, including quite recently. In this dream, I am driving down a long, remote West Texas road at...

Sixteen years ago today, everything changed. I mean, nothing changed, but everything changed.  Schuyler was diagnosed with polymicrogyria...

So I guess I’m going to talk about this thing, which has nothing to do with disability advocacy or Schuyler, except of course it does, becau...

Okay, so let’s get this out of the way first. I was wrong. I was very, very wrong. A few years ago, I wrote a blog piece about something I...

October 11, 2018 6:00pm Uncharted: An Exploration of AAC, Advocacy and Agency Featured speaker,  with Schuyler Hudson Bridgeway Academy 2500...

“I thought I was the only one.” It was a surprising thing to hear from Schuyler. It never occurred to me to think that she really believed...

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

Schuyler’s time in high school is quickly drawing to a close, faster than either of us are emotionally prepared for. As part of that transit...

I recently had the surreal but entirely positive experience of revisiting my book on the occasion of its release, ten years after publicatio...

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...

This week at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   This will be Schuyler’s senior year in high school, so everything she does will be o...

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...

This week at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   So many changes. So much uncertainty. The universe just strapped a rocket pack to Sc...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Her ultimate survival of her junior year is in large part due to the people who watch ou...

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