Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords

Today at Support for Special Needs : There has been so much conversation, so many choices to be made, all focused on enabling Schuyler to ...

Schuyler's IEP Redux took place yesterday. Her previously unsatisfactory speech and language goals were revisited and the new plan for r...

Today at Support for Special Needs : It's easy to get lost in the world in which we live. It's so easy to forget how quickly thing...

Today at Support for Special Needs : If you're here, you get it. You're almost certainly part of the club. You have a disability, ...

Hero. It's a word that gets thrown around rather freely, particularly in the disability community. You read about hero teachers who cha...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Overall, it wasn't a bad IEP meeting. Most of the team was very responsive to the philosophical s...

(I was alone with no ones there!) The grass looks green and the sky looks blue but everything else looks gray The pine tree looks monster...

This afternoon, over at the 504 : Most of all, accommodating the social integration challenges of assistive technology gives Schuyler and ...

Today, over at Support for Special Needs : It's so easy to get caught up in the day-to-day issues and the differences and the anxietie...

Mothers and fathers have very different relationships with their children. I would never try to describe Schuyler's relationship with he...

I have trust issues. I know this. I'm working on that. Recently I posted a piece for Parenting.com ( "The Negotiating Season"...

Note: Schuyler and I were talking the other day about how she's going to use her new iPad Mini to express herself. She said she wants to...

Today at the 504 : Parents need to understand that their intimate relationship with their kid empowers them with a level of investment tha...

This morning at Support for Special Needs : Schuyler is a lifelong commitment, but she's also like a warm star at the center of my sol...

My weekly lunches with Schuyler will end one day, and probably soon. I know that. I understand that she won't always want this. More to ...

In a larger sense, I guess perhaps it really is all about tools. In a sense, all the work that everyone associated with disability does beco...

There's a great deal I could take away from my visit to the College of Wooster to give a speech last week. I could share stories abou...

Today, at Support for Special Needs : Like their missing friend, every player on that field earns that trophy. For the members of these te...

My latest post at the 504 : I think that any growth on my part must be because of Schuyler, because of her own giant trusting heart and he...

Today at Support for Special Needs : This technology means a lot of things to a lot of people, but the universal power it holds is simple....