Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords

Today at Support for Special Needs : Putting Schuyler at the center of her own story isn't just polite. It's appropriate, and it...

Today at Support for Special Needs : I'm sure there are a great many reasons that Schuyler loves monsters so steadfastly. Monsters are...

(Updated below, 11/4/13...) Lately, we've been watching the story of Shea Shawhan very closely. There are a few reasons I've be...

Today, at Support for Special Needs : So sometimes you just have to stop. Your all-encompassing love sustains you through the hardest time...

This morning, there's a new post at Support for Special Needs : If you are writing about an issue that affects you as a disability pa...

I just had a piece run this week, over at the Huffington Post : When I examine all the interactions in my own life, it's with my daug...

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...