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Seeing the World Through a Child’s Eyes

What does it mean to try and promote a shift in awareness in how we educate, treat, care for, parent, and minister to children who receive the special needs labels from the deficit model to the whole...

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Labels are for Boxes not Children

As a parent of a child with a special needs label, I struggle to balance using the label to get needed services with refusing to see my child as defective as the label implies.  Many parents...

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Please Hear What I’m Not Saying

I came across this anonymous poem that I had kept from a workshop I attended.  It is about seeing past the masks people wear and breaking down the walls holding back love. Please Hear What I am not...

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Mourning Our Child

In most parenting workshops and books about children with special needs labels, time is spent on the idea that parents must mourn the loss of the child they thought they were going to get in order to...

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Labels Limit Human Interaction

I write a lot about seeing past the labels we give our children to seeing the whole child.  However it is not just children we label, we also label and categorize adults.  We think it feels easier to...

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Experiential Teaching

I hear and forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Chinese Proverb Tere Bowen-Irish spoke at the 2010 CSC Speaker Series.  She described wonderful teaching ideas for kids, kindergarten...

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Collaborative Problem Solving

Dr. Ross Greene was the last speaker of the CSC Speaker Series held in the Boston area in 2010.  He talked about using his collaborative problem solving (CPS) approach with children with behavioral,...

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Seeing the World Through a Child’s Eyes

What does it mean to try and promote a shift in awareness in how we educate, treat, care for, parent, and minister to children who receive the special needs labels from the deficit model to the whole...

View Article


Labels are for Boxes not Children

As a parent of a child with a special needs label, I struggle to balance using the label to get needed services with refusing to see my child as defective as the label implies.  Many parents...

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Please Hear What I’m Not Saying

I came across this anonymous poem that I had kept from a workshop I attended.  It is about seeing past the masks people wear and breaking down the walls holding back love. Please Hear What I am not...

View Article

Mourning Our Child

In most parenting workshops and books about children with special needs labels, time is spent on the idea that parents must mourn the loss of the child they thought they were going to get in order to...

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Labels Limit Human Interaction

I write a lot about seeing past the labels we give our children to seeing the whole child.  However it is not just children we label, we also label and categorize adults.  We think it feels easier to...

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Experiential Teaching

I hear and forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Chinese Proverb Tere Bowen-Irish spoke at the 2010 CSC Speaker Series.  She described wonderful teaching ideas for kids, kindergarten...

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Collaborative Problem Solving

Dr. Ross Greene was the last speaker of the CSC Speaker Series held in the Boston area in 2010.  He talked about using his collaborative problem solving (CPS) approach with children with behavioral,...

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