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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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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…
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Primary Immune Deficiency Disease: Parenting a Child with PIDD
It’s not because I’m terrified of germs. It’s because I’ve spent too many hours in the emergency room, too many nights in the hospital, too many days sitting in surgery waiting rooms, too…
