What Your Speech Therapist and School Won’t Tell You — And What I Wish I Knew 15 Years Ago
If I could sit across from you right now — you, the parent who loves a child who doesn’t speak — I would start with this: You’re not imagining things. Your child understands far more than anyone has ever acknowledged. And the systems you’ve been told to trust have been failing you both. I wish […]
IDEA at 50: The Promise, the Progress, and the Alarming Slide Backward
Fifty years ago, the United States did something rare: it made a moral commitment to children that actually meant something. When Congress passed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act on November 29, 1975 — the law that later became IDEA — it drew a line in the sand: Before IDEA, conditions weren’t just inadequate […]
How Confirmation Bias Hijacks Our Thinking — And What We Can Actually Do About It
There’s a truth I keep coming back to, one that’s uncomfortable to admit and even harder to escape: I am not immune to confirmation bias. None of us are. It’s not just a flaw in “other people,” or the ones we disagree with, or the caricatures that show up in our feeds. It’s a human […]
The Truth About Suramin and Autism: What the Science Really Says
