Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords

"Have you ever found a term for our super kids that doesn't piss you off Robert? Since there are times when we need to call them wh...

Describe the differences between a transverse wave and a longitudinal wave. If our Sun were a high mass star, what would be the eventual ...

The National Society of Collegiate Scholars has teamed up with Special Olympics for a new public service announcement . The NSCS provides...

Homecoming... Okay, so I'm breathing again after a somewhat anxious day. Schuyler survived her first day of middle school. She...

Okay, so she didn't answer every question that was sent to her; she sort of ran out of gas, attention span-wise. But I think she got th...

I got involved in a discussion on another site concerning self-advocacy versus parent advocacy that was interesting for about an hour before...

So there we were, the three of us, in Target with the school supply list from Schuyler's new middle school.  There weren't any part...

Image courtesy of Support for Special Needs As I mentioned last week , I was privileged to speak to the BlogHer '11 Special Needs...

( Note: After some private and refreshingly non-shouty consultation with persons more familiar with the particular issues surrounding self-...

(written on the flight home from BlogHer '11 in San Diego) The sun is setting over the Pacific as my plane takes off for home. For t...

Eight years ago, a question turned into an answer. Hope turned to fear, and took a few more years to tentatively turn back into hope. Eigh...

Over the weekend, I gave a speech, the closing keynote at the 2011 Angelman Syndrome Foundation Biennial Conference . It was a somewhat dif...

("Black in White" by Luke Chueh) Let us take a moment to consider the strange, sad story of how Marissa's Bunny lost its ...

This is why it matters. From Courthouse News Service : DAYTON, Ohio (CN) - Dayton police "mistook" a mentally handicapped teen...

Just a word, Redux , a photo by Citizen Rob on Flickr. It's been almost two months since I gave my own perspective on the so-called &q...

I've described how Schuyler tries so hard and almost succeeds in being just like everyone else, but within that "almost" lies ...

R & S , a photo by Citizen Rob on Flickr. This Father's Day weekend, I'm going to take it easy, maybe hang at the pool with Sc...

There's a story making the rounds , from North Carolina: MATTHEWS, N.C. -- The mother of 12-year-old Jackson Helms said her son was re...