Every year at about this time, I think about how my life appears to be different from the lives of most people. For the first time in a long time, I’d like to focus on the similarities rather than the differences. So I’ve come up with a list of New Year’s resolutions just like everybody else’s. However, how I plan on achieving them may set me and Moms like me a bit apart. Please glean from them what you will, and together we can change the world.
Home for the Holidaze — by Lori Miller Fox
Every year, the onset of the holidays gets my mind wandering to a simpler place and time before children. And I ask myself, when did life become so complicated? When did special needs become so specialized? Here are just a few warm childhood memories I’d like to share, some of which are my own and some which belong to Hallmark.
If You Give a Child An Appropriate Education – by Lori Miller Fox
One of my daughter’s favorite books, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff, inspired the following posting:
Law and Disorders – by Lori Miller Fox
As the parent of a child with special needs, I have experienced my son being given many labels and diagnoses by both the medical and educational community: physically challenged, seizure disorder, etc., while I, on the other hand, have been given just as many, if not more, labels, albeit unofficially, by everyone from doctors, school staff and relatives, to the nosey checkout lady in the grocery store. Here are just a few I’d like to share:
High Stakes Jesting, Part 1 – by Lori Miller Fox
Mother and writer Lori Miller Fox is a guest author for the Special Education Law Blog. Combining her humor and her experiences advocating for her child, Lori has developed a series of jokes, riddles, and columns that will be featured regularly on this site as the High Stakes Jesting Series.
Click the link below to read her first installation of riddles and jokes:
