She stutters so badly, and she starts preschool next month. Can you fix it? Can you make them be patient, help them understand her? Can you promise they will be kind?
Diving Into A Diagnosis
I found life down there at the bottom of that vast sea, a group of like-minded parents who knew exactly what I was feeling, parents who knew exactly what I was experiencing.
The Invitation
Sebastian’s social calendar has been wide open his entire life. I have struggled to help him make friends. Everyone else’s children seem to lead over-scheduled lives. It has always been difficult to insert him in their mix.
Seeing Through our Eyes: Five Things to Know About Children with Special Needs Siblings
As an adult now, I'm aware that I represent an unusual and under-represented demographic: siblings of special needs children.
How Blood Dances
For families of all children affected by congenital heart defects, minor moments take on enormous weight.
Why Special Needs Moms like me will miss Kristina Braverman
I haven’t fought cancer, run for mayor or started my own charter school, but I am the mom of a special needs child and there is something powerful about Parenthood that completely connects me, something I will deeply miss.
An Insatiable Mind
We did it all, and we’re still doing it, always trying new things, continuously evolving our methods as we get to know our child.
We Make Our Own Normality
I have discovered children with special needs are not so uncommon and each of us has a different normality
Hell is a Waiting Room
Hell is showing up on time and being told to wait.
Into the Water
Watching her overcome her fears, all by herself, is a huge inspiration to me.