Noun Lover: An AAC Update

I’ve always loved nouns. As a kid, I loved the Richard Scarry books that name every freaking noun on a page. I loved putting my finger on the objects—comb, brush, bowl—and saying the nouns. I love the lines in Genesis where …

I Am Not My Child’s Therapist

Almost five years have passed since the day I labored in a hospital tub and birthed the tiny baby that a midwife immediately called Peanut. We named that baby Fiona and we cradled her unfathomably small, four-pound-twelve-ounce body. In the …

On the “Not Proud/Proud” Moments of Disability Parenting

Today, after my husband got Fiona dressed for school, she plopped herself on the living room floor and flipped through a book. “Time to eat, Fee,” my husband said. He’s the one who usually fries her eggs, and she’s usually …