Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords

Schuyler decorated our tree this year. I can remember a time, roughly a week ago, when she was a small child who would have only reached t...

Today at Support for Special Needs I don't know what I was expecting, but Schuyler's brain, by virtue of its remarkable rewired st...

We've embarked down another path with Schuyler. It's not a path we were hoping to ever step foot upon, but then, we were perhaps ent...

Today at Support for Special Needs : But Schuyler also does a lot of free writing, creating text files on her iPad both for homework assig...

This morning, over at Support for Special Needs : If Schuyler feels comfortable with even a few people in a gathering, she's a social ...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Denying our kids the ability to work hard and perhaps even fail from time to time, instead just displ...

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...