Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords

This week, at Support for Special Needs : If you find those stories to be inspirational in a way that feels meaningful to you, I hope that...

This week at Support for Special Needs : For those of us charged with caring for and helping to build independent lives with loved ones wi...

Today at Support for Special Needs : I watch the disability community again and again choose to address its issues by forming up into circ...

Today, over at Support for Special Needs : It's been a decade since all our unanswered questions and vague fears about our daughter...

This morning, at  Support for Special Needs : Schuyler made a neurotypical friend her age, and that friendship will grow, if it grows, the...

Today, at Support for Special Needs : During the summer, Schuyler is less aware than ever of her disability, which is more than fine with ...

This morning at Support for Special Needs When I write about the importance of true and authentic relationships with people with disabilit...

The very cool folks at the Huffington Post asked me to contribute an essay for Father's Day, so here it is, "What I Know About Fath...

When I write about how truly effective disability advocacy requires entering into authentic relationships with the disabled , it helps to ha...

Today, at Support for Special Needs : I know now that Schuyler can make it without me, and probably even thrive. I understand in a way tha...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Not every dehumanizing party sounds hateful. The most dangerous among them sound downright reasonabl...

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...