Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   I worry for Schuyler around my birthday more then usual, especially with the grey skies...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Failure is how Schuyler learns. She is a remarkably stubborn kid; she fixates on problem...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  We spend years preparing our astronaut for her grand mission. Years. Then one day, in the...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Given my heart's desire from a magic genie, I might not wish for Schuyler to be made...

I want to discuss something very specific to augmentative alternative communication, so my apologies in advance if this isn't part of yo...

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

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 ...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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