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  • Angela commented on the blog post SB 10-Georgia’s Special Needs Scholarship Program: Win Some, Lose Some 6 hours, 25 minutes ago

    Oops. Just saw your number. I will give you a call. Thanks

  • Angela commented on the blog post SB 10-Georgia’s Special Needs Scholarship Program: Win Some, Lose Some 6 hours, 25 minutes ago

    Hello. I just saw this post. I am interested in finding out more about your school and possibly receiving some help. Thanks so much

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    Amy posted an update in the group Group logo of Our Special Families VillageOur Special Families Village 7 hours, 5 minutes ago

    My 4 year old son was just diagnosed with an intellectual disability. I could use some advice on how to keep him busy during the summer :)

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    Marisa Howard-Karp commented on the post, Special Needs Parenting: Things I Never Thought I’d Say, on the site Support for Special Needs 7 hours, 31 minutes ago

    “I feel great. He only got up four times last night!”

    At my daughter’s birthday party last month, the mother of her friend who has a trach said “yes, she is allergic to peanut butter, but don’t worry too much – […]

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  • jen commented on the blog post 365 Days of Kidneys 74 & 75 8 hours, 14 minutes ago

    The grapefruit juice is really weird; it actually effects a lot of different classes of drugs (including blood pressure meds sometimes used in PKD patients), so even if you’re not on immunosuppressants it’s […]

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    Miriam commented on the post, Special Needs Parenting: Things I Never Thought I’d Say, on the site Support for Special Needs 9 hours, 46 minutes ago

    Walking in to my son’s out-of-state specialist appt in Richmond, my purse fell off of my son’s wheelchair onto the sidewalk. In a desperate attempt to locate it, my husband called my phone.

    The couple that […]

  • Michelle Tieri commented on the blog post Special Needs Parenting: Things I Never Thought I’d Say 10 hours, 5 minutes ago

    Never thought I’d have to physically stop my son from repeatedly banging his head as hard as he can into a couch pillow or any other soft (thankfully) surface. My response is usually something like “stop banging […]

  • Anna Marie commented on the blog post Special Needs Parenting: Things I Never Thought I’d Say 11 hours, 7 minutes ago

    “He took his (prosthetic) eye out – hold his arms down so I can put it back in.”

    Or:

    “Thank heavens for his feeding tube – we’d never get these meds in him otherwise.”

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    Julia Roberts commented on the post, Special Needs Parenting: Things I Never Thought I’d Say, on the site Support for Special Needs 11 hours, 23 minutes ago

    Yeah. I can’t imagine you or any other parent would ever imagine that one!

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    M_B commented on the post, Special Needs Parenting: Things I Never Thought I’d Say, on the site Support for Special Needs 11 hours, 24 minutes ago

    “Well, it’s cheaper and faster to just order the walker ourselves than to let Medicaid pay for it, so I guess we’ll do that.”
    “I can’t meet you because she has PT that day. Oh, no, she has speech on that day. […]

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    Julia Roberts commented on the post, Special Needs Parenting: Things I Never Thought I’d Say, on the site Support for Special Needs 11 hours, 25 minutes ago

    Yeah. Puke. I never thought I’d be comfortable with puke in my bare hands.

  • Michael commented on the blog post Special Needs Parenting: Things I Never Thought I’d Say 11 hours, 29 minutes ago

    Her arm is on back order!

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    Megan Terry commented on the post, Special Needs Parenting: Things I Never Thought I’d Say, on the site Support for Special Needs 11 hours, 33 minutes ago

    A lot of our special needs came from my son’s extreme malnutrition from when he was in an orphanage. One night at dinner, I put my head down and cried, “Oh God! If I have to clean puke up off the dinner table […]

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    Julia Roberts wrote a new post, Special Needs Parenting: Things I Never Thought I’d Say, on the site Support for Special Needs 11 hours, 46 minutes ago

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    When I said, “Seriously, we’re not talking about anything else until you take your meds.” I realized there are so many things I say in the typical (haha) week that I couldn’t fathom saying before I was a […]

  • New blog post April Brownlee Talks about “The Divorce” from Group logo of Blogging Our LivesDifferent Dream 11 hours, 58 minutes ago

    Many parents of kids with special […]

  • New blog post April Brownlee Talks about The Divorce from Group logo of Blogging Our LivesDifferent Dream 11 hours, 58 minutes ago

    Many parents of kids with special […]

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