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July 28, 2017

Lulu

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Today we said goodbye to a member of our family. Today, we lost sweet, sweet Lulu. She joined our little family fourteen years ago, at...
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July 27, 2017

Season of Change

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This week at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   This will be Schuyler’s senior year in high school, so everything she does will be o...
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July 17, 2017

Warriors

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  Social justice warrior. SJW, to use the not-quite-clever abbreviation. Why would that eve...
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June 28, 2017

The Monster We All Feed

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:    We live in a society where rape culture isn’t just a thing, but a gigantic thing. It’s ...
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June 16, 2017

Father’s Day snapshot

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   When Schuyler and I walk together, she’ll still take my hand or lean against me. She’s m...
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May 31, 2017

Productive

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This week at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   So many changes. So much uncertainty. The universe just strapped a rocket pack to Sc...
May 26, 2017

Another Coda

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Her ultimate survival of her junior year is in large part due to the people who watch ou...
May 18, 2017

I see you. I see what you’re doing.

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  We push back against ableist speech, over and over again, because we hope, against all th...
May 13, 2017

What she needs

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I haven’t posted over here in a while, not exclusively. I’ve been engaged in a more professional weekly blogging gig at Support for Special ...
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...