On Wednesday, January 20th, Joe Biden was inaugurated. And I got the vaccine. It has been a momentous day. It feels like the beginning of the end of a dystopian novel, and I really hope this one isn’t a trilogy. I cried a few times that day. It has been…
Today while cleaning out a cluttered corner of our living room, I found a large, laminated card that someone made for our son when he was very young, maybe four or five years old. …
Comments made to the AUSD Board of Education on April 24, 2018 as part of the presentation of the draft strategic plan for special education. The recording is here; speech begins at 20.07.
My 11 year-old-son has had an extraordinarily challenging journey through the public special education system so far…
After the election, some friends half-jokingly recommended that progressives teach Kindergarten so we can grow a generation that supports the ideals of diversity, social justice, and inclusion. Teaching young children is important work, and social change is a long game. But the diverse, passionate, dedicated students in our regional public…
On one of our first confused and jet-lagged August mornings in Australia, I heard very loud chirps, hoots, and other unfamiliar noises coming from what I thought was our son’s ipad. I was about to tell him to turn down the volume on his nature show when I realized the sounds were outside my window. It still didn’t seem real that we were very far from our home in California, at the start of a four-month stay.
Read the rest of the story on page 10 of the Fragile X Association of Australia March 2017 Newsletter.
The confirmation hearings for Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, the nominee for U.S. Attorney General, are being held this week. Many people in the disability community are concerned that Sessions may fail to uphold the educational rights of children with disabilities. In a 2000 speech to the U.S. Senate titled, Education…
