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 ...

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

“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...

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

This week at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Safe spaces seem antithetical in some ways to the idea of eventual independence, but...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  I’m not sure where I’m going with this post, because I’m not sure what the takeaway is. S...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   You know the truth, which is something we've always tried to give you no matter how ...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   The world of a teenaged girl with a disability is complex, in ways that aren't cute ...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  I love Schuyler's brain, which might seem like an odd thing to say, given her own une...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   I've written many times about my duty as Schuyler's parent to be an overbelieve...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Being a special needs parent is an amazing experience, but it runs a deficit. The obstac...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Everyone cry out, because such a statement demands outcry. Ann Coulter stands proudly an...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  When I was younger and more earnest, I wanted the fixes. I'm older and spiritually wi...

This morning at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:    There's a lot more for Schuyler to unpack about this, some of it making zero...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:    Schuyler's view of the world is a little fantastical and a little simple. It has ro...

Today, at Support for Special Needs :  Excerpt:   I'm not sure what to think of who I am now. I'd like to look back at that you...

This is Schuyler. Schuyler is sixteen years old. She plays percussion in her high school band. Schuyler participates in Miracle League s...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   The value of human life isn't defined by the perfection of the human form or how adv...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  On a good day, especially when she doesn't have to speak too much, Schuyler passes pr...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   When we talk about accessibility and inclusion, those aren't just buzzwords. And the...