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Category: Special Needs
Valentine’s For A Special Needs Couple
If a simple project added giggles and smiles to someone else’s life, would you participate? Would your child add one more name to their list…
How A Daughter With Special Needs Inspires Giving
Despite all my thirty-two-year-old daughter's mental and physical challenges, she has a heart as wide and deep as the Grand Canyon. Lindsey takes after my…
Money And The Newlyweds: How A Special Needs Couple Is Learning To Budget
The newlyweds had their first fight. Ugly words were yelled. Voices were raised. Lines were drawn. Lindsey and Nick requested parental intervention. In the 80s,…
Too Dangerous: Mixing The Mentally Unstable And Assault Weapons
I wrote this piece shortly after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, then hesitated to throw my fourteen hundred words into the verbal boxing ring.…
The Wedding Album: A Couple With Special Needs Ties The Knot
I'd begun to believe a wedding day would never happen for my daughter. But on October 14, Nick and Lindsey committed their love to one…
To Be Or Not To Be: Special Needs
Recently I read a blog post where the parent did not want her child identified as special needs. She wanted her child to be treated…
First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage: Should Special Needs Couples Have Babies?
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a baby carriage. That is the rhyme I recited as a little girl. I used these…