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 | Dear Son
A Letter of Support to My Special Needs Child
By Hinda SchryberI know you asked the school before you left today "if they knew what they were doing to a kid who had really been trying so hard." And I know they didn't have a reply for you...  7 Comments | |
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 | Defining Special
A Tribute to Volunteers
By Devorah Leah MishulovinThey call her "special." But I call you, my dear volunteers, special. You are the ones who are extraordinary, unique, rare, different and so wonderful. You are the ones with special souls... 7 Comments | |
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 | Yisroel in Our Family
Our Special Child
By Sarit SchwartzI used to think that the cliché about children gaining from having a special needs sibling was just some nice words. Maybe in other people's houses, maybe with a different type of special need, but not in our home, not with Yisroel... 12 Comments | |
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 | The "Special" in Special Needs
By Sara TzafonaWhen Jill was born her doctor advised her parents to "let her go." Jill's mother informed the doctor that she would only permit the infant to go one place and that was directly to her heart... 4 Comments | |
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 | Sheina's Birthday
By Devorah Leah MishulovinThis morning, before she went off to school, I said to her, "Sheina, today is your birthday, you are thirteen years old." She showed me thirteen in ASL (American Sign Language)... 20 Comments | |
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 | Learning to Understand My Challenging Child
by Katherine AgranovichHow could I, his mother, not see through him? How could I not appreciate the intense power pulsating in him? How could I not be on his side? “Sorry for betraying you,” I sob, burying my face in his soft curls... 17 Comments | |
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 | Mothering After Miscarriage
By Tammy TarkhoffNow that I have been granted the child that I prayed for, and he does have special needs, I am finding that specialness more than I bargained for... 13 Comments | |
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 | Raising a Child with Bipolar Disorder
By Debbie OrkinWe went back to the psychiatrist and she saw right away what it really was. My beautiful, brilliant, funny, compassionate son was literally climbing her bookcases, screaming like a wild animal... 57 Comments | |
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 | The End of the World
By Sara Esther CrispeIt was back to basics. Actually, it was back to much less than basics. It was back to virtually nothing... 9 Comments | |
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 | Baruch's Bar Mitzvah
By Sara RosenfeldAs his 13th birthday loomed closer, my husband and I began to discuss what we should do. At first we thought nothing at all. How could we ‘celebrate’ a ‘Bar Mitzvah’ that wasn’t? But then we realized that there was much that we did need to celebrate. 16 Comments | |
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 | A "Special" Girl
By Leah KarpParalyzed from the waist down and wheelchair-bound since infancy, she was at one time in a special school for special kids, on a special bus with a special helper... 12 Comments | |
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 | Handicaps
By Jill PincusAs a child I believed I sang very well, and this assumption was never threatened until I auditioned for my junior high-school choir... 10 Comments | |
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 | Staring at the Sun
By Jackie HafterMy oldest son, Gabriel, who just turned six, was born with a rare craniofacial birth defect, called Treacher Collins Syndrome. The past few weeks have been a bit stressful, as we were preparing for Gabriel's ninth surgery... 13 Comments | |
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 | "F" is for "Freedom!"
By Sara HechtHe kept mentioning “Freedom Rules,” and that’s where he really got me thinking. How can there be rules in Freedom? 3 Comments | |
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 | A Different Perfect
You and Your Baby Start a Song
By Esther Bard"For every ounce of effort we give these children, they give back tenfold." Chaya is the mother of six biological children, including a Down's syndrome son and three adopted Down's kids who were tragically abandoned by their parents, at birth or shortly afterwards 15 Comments | |
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 | A Brief Overview of Autism
By Tammy RugglesAutism is a frightening word to parents. Children can have it, adults can have it. But what is it? Why does it happen? And how do you parent an autistic child? 6 Comments | |
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 | What is Spirituality?
By Jackie HafterAs a teenager I used to think if I could just see into my crystal ball and know who I am going to marry and what my life would be like, I could understand today better. But would knowing my future have truly gotten me through the day or the experience of that moment? 4 Comments | |
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