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The Outrage Machine 26 Aug 2013 | 05:23 pm
Today, at Support for Special Needs: If there's anything that social media seems to do the most easily, it is to serve as a great machine, churning and huffing, with gears grinding day and night. And...
The Letter 21 Aug 2013 | 05:53 pm
Today at Support for Special Needs: If you're a special needs parent, you've probably seen the letter by now. It's been making the rounds for a few days. It was written and delivered anonymously to a...
Hope and Fear, and Summer's Passing 13 Aug 2013 | 06:38 pm
Today at Support for Special Needs: It's funny, the future. Sometimes it ambushes us, with a surprise diagnosis much worse than expected, or a seizure in a public place, or wicked words from a strang...
The Peril of What If 5 Aug 2013 | 08:09 pm
Today at Support for Special Needs: Sometimes the What If Game cuts both ways. What if our children really could be cured, or helped to the point that their disability is all but defeated? What does ...
A Day of Note 1 Aug 2013 | 05:54 pm
There were two notable things about yesterday. It marked the ten year anniversary of Schuyler's diagnosis for bilateral perisylvian polymicrogyria. It was the day we received all the gloom and despai...
Feeling Good, and Doing Good 1 Aug 2013 | 04:29 pm
This week, at Support for Special Needs: If you find those stories to be inspirational in a way that feels meaningful to you, I hope that’s the beginning of something, not the end. If you watch that ...
Leave the Ladders in Place 25 Jul 2013 | 11:49 pm
This week at Support for Special Needs: For those of us charged with caring for and helping to build independent lives with loved ones with disabilities, trust can become hard to extend. We’ve all be...
Of Tribes and Truths 15 Jul 2013 | 10:01 pm
Today at Support for Special Needs: I watch the disability community again and again choose to address its issues by forming up into circular firing squads and shooting each other in the face with br...
A Monster's Birthday 8 Jul 2013 | 06:59 pm
Today, over at Support for Special Needs: It's been a decade since all our unanswered questions and vague fears about our daughter's developmental issues and lack of speech development coalesced into...
Carousel 1 Jul 2013 | 07:35 pm
This morning, at Support for Special Needs: Schuyler made a neurotypical friend her age, and that friendship will grow, if it grows, the same way her recent failed relationship grew. It'll happen by ...
