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November 23, 2016

Thanksgiving 2016

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Through it all, Schuyler doesn't spend a lot of time reflecting on the hard stuff, c...
November 17, 2016

The next day, and the next

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  But the days roll past, and the Big Scary Thing becomes more and more background as the M...
November 9, 2016

The New Danger of Difference

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  When Schuyler gets up tomorrow and faces her weary and deeply disheartened father, she wi...
November 2, 2016

A Simpler World

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   I hate this election season, like I hate anything that I find difficulty in explaining t...
October 18, 2016

Two Brains

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  I love Schuyler's brain, which might seem like an odd thing to say, given her own une...
October 5, 2016

Small expeditions

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Years from now, I hope we see these small expeditions as the beginning of Schuyler's...
September 28, 2016

Limits

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   I've written many times about my duty as Schuyler's parent to be an overbelieve...
September 21, 2016

Check your local listings, and hold your breath

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   I feel like there's been a subtle shift in how people with disabilities are perceive...
September 14, 2016

Toll

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Being a special needs parent is an amazing experience, but it runs a deficit. The obstac...
August 30, 2016

The invisible monsters who walk among us

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Everyone cry out, because such a statement demands outcry. Ann Coulter stands proudly an...
August 24, 2016

Junior

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This week, at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   In years past, her first day of school nerves were pretty epic. This year, it wasn...
August 17, 2016

Back to You-Know-Where

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:    Our big plans for the new school year don't always work out, and sometimes they REA...
August 9, 2016

Optimism on the Launch Pad

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  Because I am who I am, I look at Schuyler's positive new school experience, and I won...
August 4, 2016

Shouting Over the Walls

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   So many of the discussions and emails I've received lately have reminded me of how t...
July 27, 2016

The Disposable and the Unseen

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This morning at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:    When I read the story of the attack in Japan, it struck me that Satoshi Uematsu’...
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July 19, 2016

Acceptance, with an asterisk

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  When I was younger and more earnest, I wanted the fixes. I'm older and spiritually wi...
July 12, 2016

The Watcher

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This morning at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:    There's a lot more for Schuyler to unpack about this, some of it making zero...
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July 5, 2016

Precarious Indifference

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   How would Schuyler have reacted in Hannah's situation? I can't say. I imagine sh...
June 27, 2016

Awkward Miracles

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:    It's easy to think of Miracle League as a place of gentle interactions, but that...
June 20, 2016

No Atticus

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   When I look at the work I do, at the life I live as a father, I see a lot that I don...