"Confessions of a Special Needs Dad" is a series of articles related to parenting disabled children. Larry O'Connor's previous articles on this topic can be found here and here. I received so many positive
Confessions of a Special Needs Dad: Advocating for Our Disabled Children
I'm so grateful for the amazing response from so many of you after my column last week discussing some of my experiences with two of my four children who were born with disabilities. If you missed that column, give it a read. I plan on writing a series of these "mini-memoirs" reflecting on my experiences with my oldest child (now 21) with Cerebal Palsy and my youngest child (now 14), who is on the autism spectrum.
I'm calling these reflections "Confessions of a Special Needs Dad" because our society has embraced the "special needs" label as a catch-all description of any child who doesn't necessarily fit into the typical "cookie-cutter" parenting or educational mold found in most parenting columns or books.