Editors Note: This is post dedicated to all special needs children isolated from their non disabled peers. Let’s be blunt some more. I am content with my family who knows me so well, yet, for many of you the jury is out. I see your perplexed looks when you fleetingly think that you have no […]

In 2017 Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in a 8-0 decision that the bar for educating severally handicapped children was much too low and demanded a much higher standard. I suspect that the case in question is not unique. It is our belief that in far too many districts across the country the plans amount […]

My name is Haley Hilt, I am a 13 year old resident of this district ‘and a student in the special education program at Maple Hill School. I am developmentally delayed, as the pros say, and neither walk nor talk. I also have intractable epilepsy . That said, I am definitely not what I appear […]

Let’s get right to the heart of the matter on this communication thing. Let’s drill down to the basics and focus on what it is like to sit in my wheelchair. I can’t talk; I can’t sign; I can’t write you a note; I can’t walk up to you and introduce myself;  and my talking […]