Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords

This week at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt: In 2016, we're not just going to be choosing a president. We're going to be estab...

As an author or a public advocate and speaker, it happens every so often. You'll be in a public place, and someone will approach you, as...

Today is Schuyler's sixteenth birthday. I'm trying to wrap my brain around that, but it's daunting. My little girl is sixteen. Y...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   It's only a few days before Christmas, and even though I'm a dirty heathen, I fi...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   When we can't pass and disappear into the world of the typical, the internet communi...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   The world isn't an easy place for kids like Schuyler, but at times like the holidays...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   You don't have to be Donald Trump to take a spin on that low road, either. You can b...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Things are different now. I wouldn't describe her current academic setting as inclus...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Schuyler doesn't understand what's going on in any comprehensive way. I don'...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   It can be a little frustrating, having to explain polymicrogyria. Other disorders with a...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   It's no secret that letting go of Schuyler's chaotic, sometimes troubled but alw...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   My little girl has had a lot to overcome in her life, and a lot of antagonists to face. ...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Adversity builds special talents, or so we've always been told. That might be bullsh...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   What will they see in this person, your beloved little weirdo who doesn't fit in any...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   As a parent of a daughter for whom all this will depart the realm of the theoretical, I ...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt: Last night, like everyone else lucky enough to have clear skies, we watched the rare displ...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt: If you're a father and you're not committed to being an active, involved, pain-in-...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   In the end, Hun-Joon Lee was devoured by an unsafe world. He was destroyed not by his di...

When Schuyler was little, and I mean very little, back before she was even a real person just yet, I would worry about things. Some of my ...

Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt: I guess for me, I'm simply looking for the place where Schuyler will be happy. I suppo...