Support for Special Needs
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A social networking site for families raising kids with special needs.
Support for Special Needs
9M ago
Last Friday night our son got home late from a game at school. He’s concessions manager for the school’s stand at sporting events, and takes great pride in his work running a school money-maker. It was homecoming weekend and myself, his sister and his grandfather were able to take a “senior walk” with him between games, while, sadly, his dad was traveling. So, he’s a senior… and he’s happy to have been accepted to a trade school and is following his interest in electronics.
Eight years ago I didn’t know if he’d live through high school. Depression and rage were so muc ..read more
Support for Special Needs
9M ago
Yesterday my daughter’s achy body, cough, and chest hurting increased and as the way she felt worsened, my worry increased along with her symptoms.
It’s like the Universe knows it’s been a while since a Holiday urgent care or ER visit for us, we ended up doing that very thing on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday. Apparently lots of Influenza A out there on the Holiday. Our insurance company helpfully recommended we visit an affiliate location and we were in with the within 30 minutes of filling out the paperwork. She was swiftly swabbed and there we were, facing the li ..read more
Support for Special Needs
9M ago
The end of July doesn’t mark the end of summer, especially not here in Texas. (Honestly, it feels like summer here in October. In July, it feels like Africa.) But it does feel like change to me. It feels like the new year. It feels, in very real ways, like the world is shifting once again, just a little.
This summer has been a big one for Schuyler. In the spring, she got signed up to do a summer employment internship for young people with disabilities, and after some false starts, Schuyler began her paid internship at a CVS in our town. I think it’s important to mention the company by name, be ..read more
Support for Special Needs
9M ago
There’s a thing no one wants to talk about. Let’s talk about it.
Let’s talk about rape culture and the disability community.
The topic makes us as a society uncomfortable, and it makes us as individuals EXTREMELY uncomfortable. For parents of kids with disabilities, this is a subject that slips under our mental and emotional doors like smoke. It hits us hard because we understand exactly how vulnerable our children are, and we’ve experienced how hard the world can be to our kids and to the adults they will become. It keeps us up late at night because we understand, better than anyone and certa ..read more
Support for Special Needs
3y ago
Last Friday night our son got home late from a game at school. He’s concessions manager for the school’s stand at sporting events, and takes great pride in his work running a school money-maker. It was homecoming weekend and myself, his sister and his grandfather were able to take a “senior walk” with him between games, while, sadly, his dad was traveling. So, he’s a senior… and he’s happy to have been accepted to a trade school and is following his interest in electronics.
Eight years ago I didn’t know if he’d live through high school. Depression and rage were so muc ..read more
Support for Special Needs
3y ago
Yesterday my daughter’s achy body, cough, and chest hurting increased and as the way she felt worsened, my worry increased along with her symptoms.
It’s like the Universe knows it’s been a while since a Holiday urgent care or ER visit for us, we ended up doing that very thing on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday. Apparently lots of Influenza A out there on the Holiday. Our insurance company helpfully recommended we visit an affiliate location and we were in with the within 30 minutes of filling out the paperwork. She was swiftly swabbed and there we were, facing the li ..read more
Support for Special Needs
3y ago
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This morning, before noon, my husband and I sat next to our son and carefully looked over 20 trade schools on an Excel spreadsheet. We had been meaning to do it for about a month, but you know, life gets in the way.
We selected down from 20 to 10 and from 10 to five… we have five schools on his target list for what he wants to do, in short, to fix things. In long, to learn everything he can about electronics repair. Imagine our shock as we are helpi ..read more
Support for Special Needs
3y ago
The end of July doesn’t mark the end of summer, especially not here in Texas. (Honestly, it feels like summer here in October. In July, it feels like Africa.) But it does feel like change to me. It feels like the new year. It feels, in very real ways, like the world is shifting once again, just a little.
This summer has been a big one for Schuyler. In the spring, she got signed up to do a summer employment internship for young people with disabilities, and after some false starts, Schuyler began her paid internship at a CVS in our town. I think it’s important to mention the company by name, be ..read more
Support for Special Needs
3y ago
There’s a thing no one wants to talk about. Let’s talk about it.
Let’s talk about rape culture and the disability community.
The topic makes us as a society uncomfortable, and it makes us as individuals EXTREMELY uncomfortable. For parents of kids with disabilities, this is a subject that slips under our mental and emotional doors like smoke. It hits us hard because we understand exactly how vulnerable our children are, and we’ve experienced how hard the world can be to our kids and to the adults they will become. It keeps us up late at night because we understand, better than anyone and certa ..read more