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October 27, 2014

A Season of Making Sense

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  We like Halloween around here. Part of Schuyler's fondness for the holiday probably s...
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October 21, 2014

Deflated

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  Today, I’m tired of the walking. I’m tired of screwing up, and I’m tired of other people ...
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October 20, 2014

Goodbye, Petey

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Over the weekend, we said a sudden and unexpected goodbye to Petey, who had been with us since he was a tiny puppy in 2005. Petey was a sh...
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October 13, 2014

The Path to Self-Advocacy

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt: Schuyler is never going to be a confrontational self-advocate, I feel pretty certain of th...
October 10, 2014

Teaching Students to Self-Advocate

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Amanda Morin and Robert Rummel-Hudson join The Inclusive Class Podcast this week! Amanda Morin is an advocate and author of The Everything ...
October 6, 2014

An Extraordinary Story

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  In the list of commemorative awareness months, October's got a lot going on. It's...
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...