Archive for the 'My Opinions' Category

When Waiting Isn’t Enough

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

I posted a long comment over at Every Waking Hour under the post, “Thinking About Readiness”. Although I published it there, I thought I would post it on my own blog as well.
Willa said:
I’ve read some Piagetian theory in the context of special needs education…. just a very little. One very interesting book that […]

My Brother’s Keeper

Friday, June 16th, 2006

As I was talking about our large family dynamic in an e-mail today, and all the high maintenance personalities, and about how I can often rely on various children at different times to help out with each other, it reminded me of a time in my life when I was struggling with feeling guilty about […]

“Special Needs”

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

In the book, “The Seeing Glass: A Memoir”, by Jacquelin Gorman, she writes in chapter eleven about her brother, who was living with autism:
I hate anything having to do with the word special ever since they started using it to describe my brother. Robin has special needs. He has to go to a […]