Special Education

Action Alert! Stimulus Package and Disabilities Funding

January 20, 2009

[Update 1/27/09 - It's crunch time! Go read this update!] While I was feeling a little wait-and-see earlier today about what we’d be able to accomplish legislatively for autism, special education, and disabilities in general in this economic climate, I just discovered there’s plenty of hope to go around! But we must act now! The [...]

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President Obama and Autism

January 20, 2009

Critical Update! Go read my action alert about the Stimulus Package before Congress! At precisely Noon today, the White House web site officially switched over to the Barack Obama Administration. It’s important that we keep track of policies that directly affect us as parents of autistic children and stay committed to our efforts to advocate [...]

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And Now We Will Hold You To It

November 5, 2008

We now have President-Elect Barack Obama, and the two years of campaigning, all the incessant political ads, tens of millions of votes, the raw emotions of this day, and – regardless of how you feel about the outcome – the history we have now witnessed have quickly turned into just preamble. That’s about how long [...]

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