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September 29, 2014

Two Simple Experiences

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt: Now that Schuyler is up to her eyeballs in high school life, marching band has become some...
September 23, 2014

Lily Pads

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:    Today, I have a brief message specifically for the parents of kids with special needs. ...
September 15, 2014

The Key

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Schuyler's voice is no longer a thing to squeak out of her iPad in close proximity. ...
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September 8, 2014

The Other Talk

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Typical parents fear The Sex Talk. (To be fair, so do we.) Many special needs parents ha...
September 1, 2014

On Labor Day, 2014

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Today, at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt: I'm not usually one for writing contrived holiday-themed posts here ("It's A...
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August 25, 2014

To the people like her, which is perhaps everyone

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  When Schuyler looks at the future, she does so with her disability in mind, but not at th...
August 18, 2014

Unwanted monsters

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Schuyler understands her disability better now than she ever has before. I'm immeasu...
August 11, 2014

Deconstructing the Gentle Lie

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This morning at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Beyond mythological figures, there's the gradually disintegrating gentle lie ...
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August 4, 2014

The High School Chapter, Page One

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  Schuyler started her summer band camp this morning, so I guess this is sort of the unoffi...
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July 28, 2014

The World in a Room

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   The hard part comes in trying to help Schuyler decide what to give away and what to keep...
July 21, 2014

Eleven Years

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  Mostly, though, the last eleven years have given me Schuyler. They've allowed me the ...
July 14, 2014

Schuyler's Sense of Self

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   It really is a beautiful photo, haunting and sweet. In most of her pics, Schuyler is lau...
July 7, 2014

Independence Days

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Watching Schuyler and her friend navigate their shared space was an eye-opening experien...
June 30, 2014

"Thanks, but..."

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Special education is a funny thing. (Not so much “ha ha” funny, more like “Huh, that doe...
June 23, 2014

The Gatekeepers of Entitlement

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   We are so convinced that we have a right to know and understand every single scenario th...
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June 17, 2014

"Once more, unto the breach..."

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Today (a day late, sorry) at Support for Special Needs . Excerpt:   We've always advocated strongly for Schuyler to be educated in ...
June 14, 2014

Unseen Giants

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I wrote a Father's Day piece for my friends over at BridgingApps . They're great people and I'm honored that they're featur...
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June 9, 2014

Flygirl

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Today at Support for Special Needs : I don't think there's anything wrong with letting your kid dream past their disability. If it...
June 2, 2014

A Simpler Season

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Today, at Support for Special Needs : Many of us with special needs kids make noises of outward exasperation at the onset of summer, and w...
May 26, 2014

Insufficient Instrument

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Today at Support for Special Needs : For a guy who's not too smart, I think I do a reasonably good job of navigating the chaos around ...
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