Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords

Today at Support for Special Needs : Special needs parents and their support professionals frequently talk about transitions. They are wil...

Today at Support for Special Needs : For the parents of special needs kids who have developmental and communication impediments to indepen...

Today, at Support for Special Needs : The thing I find sometimes is how much there is to learn in the simplified version she gives back. S...

One of the concepts you see referenced frequently in disability writing these days is to always presume competence. It's a straightforwa...

Today at Support for Special Needs : What I’m doing by not saying anything is a form of silent consent. I let a little piece of verbal poi...

I don't return home to Odessa very often. Probably not nearly enough, anyway. It's been almost three decades since I actually lived ...

At Support for Special Needs : I’m not sure I’d call any of these "resolutions". But as we march off into 2014, I will try to be...

Today at  Support for Special Needs : I mentioned this last year, but one of the things I value the most about a site like this one is h...

This week always presents a natural time to stop and reflect on where Schuyler is in her life, with her birthday only a few days away. It...

Today at Support for Special Needs : The thought of striking out against that, of hoisting a flag of defiance and breaking down some of th...

Today at Support for Special Needs : As parents, we’re probably almost certainly unprepared for the disabilities of our children, at least...

This week (sorry, I forgot to publish this on Monday) at Support for Special Needs : What I truly want is for my friends to run out of hur...

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...