Special Children


		Yisroel in Our Family Our Special Child By Sarit Schwartz I used to think that the cliché about children gaining from having a special needs sibling was just some nice words. Maybe in other people's houses, maybe with a different type of special need, but not in our home, not with Yisroel...



		Sheina's Birthday By Devorah Leah Mishulovin This morning, before she went off to school, I said to her, "Sheina, today is your birthday, you are thirteen years old." She showed me thirteen in ASL (American Sign Language)... 20 Comments



		Mothering After Miscarriage By Tammy Tarkhoff Now that I have been granted the child that I prayed for, and he does have special needs, I am finding that specialness more than I bargained for... 11 Comments



		Raising a Child with Bipolar Disorder By Debbie Orkin We went back to the psychiatrist and she saw right away what it really was. My beautiful, brilliant, funny, compassionate son was literally climbing her bookcases, screaming like a wild animal... 40 Comments



		The End of the World By Sara Esther Crispe It was back to basics. Actually, it was back to much less than basics. It was back to virtually nothing... 9 Comments



		Baruch, Our Special Child By Sara Rosenfeld I remember looking at the doctor and thinking: "You are not G‑d. That is your opinion, but anything can happen..." 33 Comments



		Baruch's Bar Mitzvah By Sara Rosenfeld As his 13th birthday loomed closer, my husband and I began to discuss what we should do. At first we thought nothing at all. How could we ‘celebrate’ a ‘Bar Mitzvah’ that wasn’t? But then we realized that there was much that we did need to celebrate. 13 Comments



		A "Special" Girl By Leah Karp Paralyzed from the waist down and wheelchair-bound since infancy, she was at one time in a special school for special kids, on a special bus with a special helper... 12 Comments



		Handicaps By Jill Pincus As a child I believed I sang very well, and this assumption was never threatened until I auditioned for my junior high-school choir... 10 Comments



		Staring at the Sun By Jackie Hafter My oldest son, Gabriel, who just turned six, was born with a rare craniofacial birth defect, called Treacher Collins Syndrome. The past few weeks have been a bit stressful, as we were preparing for Gabriel's ninth surgery... 12 Comments



		"F" is for "Freedom!" By Sara Hecht He kept mentioning “Freedom Rules,” and that’s where he really got me thinking. How can there be rules in Freedom? 3 Comments



		A Different Perfect You and Your Baby Start a Song By Esther Bard "For every ounce of effort we give these children, they give back tenfold." Chaya is the mother of six biological children, including a Down's syndrome son and three adopted Down's kids who were tragically abandoned by their parents, at birth or shortly afterwards 6 Comments