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Special needs and community: how walls are built
Before bridges can be built, walls must be torn down. And before walls can be torn down, walls must be understood.
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Shea’s Story {on being a single special needs mom}
Being a single mom to two young children, one of whom has special needs doesn't, make me a super mom. It's simply all I've ever known, and I'm just a mom doing what…
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The Challenges and Blessings of Parenting Special Needs Children with a Chronic Condition
So many people say I must be a "super mom," but I don't feel that way at all. Is it hard to find the blessings in the challenges? Absolutely! With God's help, though,…
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In His Hands {4 lessons learned from adopting older special needs children}
These are 4 things that I did not know before adopting Zhang Zhou, Wang Xue, Ji Rong or Zeng Shu. Our children were adopted at 3, 12, 6 and 12 respectively, from 2001…
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Ezra’s Story: from “typical” to a behavioral diagnosis
I've written this, my story - my son's story - for all the moms out there who are in this awkward state of quasi-"special needs" but have no real claim to the title.…
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Encouragement for the Pregnant Special Needs Mom
And that power will pull you through the difficult times when you are carrying life inside you and carrying a special one in your arms.
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A Special Needs Mom With Special Needs
What it means to be a special needs mom is to breathe through the crisis, avoid the crisis, and cherish the small moments when there isn’t one.
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Yes, jaundice can do that! {Diagnosis Spotlight: Kernicterus – KI}
Wait. What? Jaundice can do that?!?! and it did. Jaundice did the thing. It put my boy in a wheelchair.
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Etched Upon My Heart Forever {Diagnosis Spotlight: Down Syndrome}
Michael was knit in my womb by God Himself. He was not a mistake or overlooked by God while He was busy knitting “perfect” children. There was not a Michael Model A and…
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Dark House of Hope {Diagnosis Spotlight: PDD-NOS}
In my final sleepy thoughts, I realized there was something familiar about that journey up the stairs. My journey with my daughter carried the same blindness, the same groping for answers, the same…
