Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords

Today at Support for Special Needs : She sees her future work life as an abstraction, probably because at her age, the future seems limitl...

After Schuyler's most recent visit to her neurologist back in December, we were given a cd with images from her MRI. In what felt like a...

Today at Support for Special Needs : As parents of children with disabilities, we are constantly looking for the word choices that reflect...

I'm sorry if you're getting tired of this story. I actually wrote this last week. One of the pitfalls of a weekly column, I guess. A...

Today at Support for Special Needs : My fears for that future, and they are legion, have little to do with what Schuyler will be able to d...

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...