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Category Archives: Special Saturday

When Special Needs Meets Christmas (& Santa)

Special Needs at Christmas - Bobby peeking under the tree

Mixing Awesomeness, and Special Needs, with Christmas This time of year, from Thanksgiving, through Christmas, and around the start of the New Year — isn’t easy for a lot of people for many different reasons. When you have a child with special needs, though, there are specific challenges that crop up, ones that others don’t…

Special Saturday | A Few of My Favorite Things …

This Life of Special Needs Parenting has its Ups and Downs But It’s not without it’s perks Usually, when I have a chance to tell someone about my life, when they start to ask questions, we never have a chance to delve into what makes it worthwhile. Special needs parenting, while sometimes difficult, full of…

Special Saturday | Giving Thanks in the Midst of Life’s Storms

Autism, Epilepsy, Cerebral Palsy — New Diagnosis Sometimes Builds up It’s a little ironic to consider–giving thanks after new diagnosis rocks your world–but this week’s Special Saturday campaign asked what we were thankful for and the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I was truly thankful for an unexpected new diagnosis….

Epilepsy, Autism, Rare Disease – How Special Needs Change a Family

How Epilepsy, Autism, Rare Disease have Changed us All Special Saturday post of the week Many families have dealt with the same diagnoses we have–epilepsy, autism, Axenfeld-Rieger Syndrome, and all–but when you pull them all together in one family it can become a different kind of life-changing, family-changing, experience. Any diagnosis will change the family…

How My Children with Special Needs Have Changed My Life

A Special Saturday Post that Surpasses My Special Needs Children (& Myself) Each week, the Special Saturday special needs awareness campaign posts a question for anyone to answer to help spread awareness of special needs issues. This week’s question was: How has my special needs child changed my life.  That’s one of those questions that…