Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords

Today at Support for Special Needs : I can remember back when it felt like we'd never be able to forget, even for a moment, what hung ...

Today at Support for Special Needs : For families like ours, the paths we walk aren't ones that are all that well-travelled. We don...

Today at Support for Special Needs : For parent advocates, there are rules now, I am told, for the things that we can and cannot say. Brea...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Parents of special needs kids with less visible disabilities spend a lot of time trying to moderate t...

Today at Support for Special Needs : It's when we are faced with the subtle, nonverbal communication tools of the disabled that we fin...

Today, at Support for Special Needs : If there's anything that social media seems to do the most easily, it is to serve as a great mac...

Today at Support for Special Needs : If you're a special needs parent, you've probably seen the letter by now. It's been makin...

Today at Support for Special Needs : It's funny, the future. Sometimes it ambushes us, with a surprise diagnosis much worse than expec...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Sometimes the What If Game cuts both ways. What if our children really could be cured, or helped to th...

There were two notable things about yesterday. It marked the ten year anniversary of Schuyler's diagnosis for bilateral perisylvian po...

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...