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April 27, 2017

Safe Spaces

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This week at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Safe spaces seem antithetical in some ways to the idea of eventual independence, but...
April 19, 2017

I think I’ve got a quarter if they need one.

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Weird? How are we measuring “weird”? What does “weird” look like for someone like Schuyl...
April 6, 2017

Monster Island

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  I’m not sure where I’m going with this post, because I’m not sure what the takeaway is. S...
March 29, 2017

The Seventy-five Percent Solution

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  For Schuyler specifically, and for no doubt a great many of her peers, having the ability...

We've met before.

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Those of us raising our kids in public school environments have a pretty good idea of wh...
March 9, 2017

Inclusion is a work in progress

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   So what do our kids need from an inclusive society, before we even consider their classr...
March 2, 2017

Spaces for the Hard Stuff

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This week at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Schuyler continues to build a world around herself, and sometimes that means making ...
February 23, 2017

The Persistence of Little Fish

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   When I wrote about the little fish that quietly eat our kids up while we’re busy watchin...
February 2, 2017

From the bottom of the sea

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Schuyler's world just became much, much larger, and as it turns out, that scares her...
January 25, 2017

This is why.

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  Schuyler was surrounded and engulfed and protected by a sea of women, and she understood,...
January 19, 2017

Exploring Worlds Both Dark and Lovely

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  In taking my own focus inward to her more immediate world and trying to help as best I ca...
January 12, 2017

Denial

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   There are two kinds of deniers. There are the kind that are just goofy, like moon landin...
January 4, 2017

Desensitized

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  I recently read an article that posed a question that honestly hadn't occurred to me ...
December 28, 2016

"At least I think that's so..."

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   I'm not going to try to pretend I'm hopeful, or that I believe the inherent good...
December 21, 2016

To my Heart, at Seventeen

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   You know the truth, which is something we've always tried to give you no matter how ...
December 16, 2016

The Value of Protest

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:    Protest forms special needs parents into people we would not otherwise be, and sometime...
December 1, 2016

The evolution of the dad hat

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   The world of a teenaged girl with a disability is complex, in ways that aren't cute ...
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...