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January 25, 2016

The Price of Happiness

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   I learn from Schuyler and her gigantic good heart. She teaches me every day, and mostly ...
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January 18, 2016

The Three Anxieties and the Lucky Brain

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Aside from the obvious, Schuyler has always had something of a lucky brain. It's pre...
January 4, 2016

Just possible

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   We were in line at the grocery store (the place where all these kinds of stories seem to...
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December 28, 2015

A new year, a new opportunity

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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...
December 23, 2015

Recognition

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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...
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December 21, 2015

16

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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...
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The Season of Beauty Found

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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...
December 14, 2015

Small World

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   When we can't pass and disappear into the world of the typical, the internet communi...
December 8, 2015

A Simple Season

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   The world isn't an easy place for kids like Schuyler, but at times like the holidays...
November 30, 2015

The Politics of the Low Road

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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...
November 23, 2015

The Softness of Island Living

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Things are different now. I wouldn't describe her current academic setting as inclus...
November 17, 2015

Real Monsters

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Schuyler doesn't understand what's going on in any comprehensive way. I don'...
November 9, 2015

Monster Swag

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   It can be a little frustrating, having to explain polymicrogyria. Other disorders with a...
November 2, 2015

Another homecoming, of sorts

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   It's no secret that letting go of Schuyler's chaotic, sometimes troubled but alw...
October 26, 2015

Her Own Worst Enemy

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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. ...
October 19, 2015

Solitary Grace

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Adversity builds special talents, or so we've always been told. That might be bullsh...
October 12, 2015

In with the New

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   What will they see in this person, your beloved little weirdo who doesn't fit in any...
October 6, 2015

Disability Employment: A Topic Worthy of Awareness

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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 ...
September 28, 2015

Wonder On Loan

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt: Last night, like everyone else lucky enough to have clear skies, we watched the rare displ...
September 21, 2015

The League of Ordinary Gentlemen

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