Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords

There’s a lot I could tell you about Schuyler’s trip to Gold Coast, Australia for the 2018 International Society for Augmentative and Altern...

“I thought I was the only one.” It was a surprising thing to hear from Schuyler. It never occurred to me to think that she really believed...

In the spring of 2005, Schuyler was evaluated by the diagnosticians and special educators at her school in Manor, Texas, near Austin. They c...

Schuyler’s time in high school is quickly drawing to a close, faster than either of us are emotionally prepared for. As part of that transit...

I recently had the surreal but entirely positive experience of revisiting my book on the occasion of its release, ten years after publicatio...

Click here to donate to Schuyler's Australia fund Schuyler Hudson is a remarkable young woman with a brain malformation that changes...

I’ve always known that this fall, and I mean specifically the autumn of 2017, was going to be a big deal. The numbers line up in an intere...

I haven't written much about Las Vegas. Part of the reason is that it turns out Schuyler and I have a random weird association with the ...

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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

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 ...

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

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

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...