Laura McKenna

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June 15, 2021 Laura

HuffPost: My Autistic Son Didn’t Have A Prom Date. What His Brother Did Next Was Beautiful.

April 14, 2021 Laura

Awareness Weeks Are Fine but People With Disabilities Need a Lot More Than That

March 18, 2021 Laura

Opinion: 7 Tips for Parents Who Want to Speak Out at School Board Meetings and Be Effective Advocates for Students

March 12, 2021 Laura

Are We Facing a Mental Health Crisis for Boys?

February 12, 2021 Laura

Occupational Therapy Shifts From Tactile to Digital

August 28, 2020 Laura

Why It’s So Hard to Report on Schools While Home-Schooling During a Pandemic

July 28, 2020 Laura

How To Reach Traumatized Students

March 22, 2020 Laura

When schools close or go online, what happens to students with disabilities?

January 14, 2020 Laura

OPINION: Marching band sets the right tempo for many special-needs kids

October 30, 2019 Laura

Skimping on School Buildings is Creating a Crisis

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The United States of Anger: The Haves and the Have-Nots of Covid are Going to Collide

From the newsletter Nearly two years ago, the nation realized that a VERY nasty virus was about to overtake our country, so politicians shutdown all but the most vital services and built portable hospitals in Manhattan. Workers went home, downloaded Zoom, and rearranged their bookshelves. Kids got a permanent snow day. To keep people amused […]

SL 865

Hi guys. My writing mojo got derailed a couple of weeks ago. We’ve been dealing with some unbloggable kid drama, which fried my brain. The situations are slowly getting sorted out, so I’m starting to feel normal again. Whew. Picked a bad year to try Dry January. So, what’s going on? I mean beyond Wordle. […]

Can the Courts Help Kids? Revisiting the Supreme Court Case, Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District

From the newsletter: When individuals and groups can’t make schools work for them, some turn to the courts for help at the local level, state level, and occasionally in the Supreme Court. With so much attention from parents and advocacy groups on school equity and outcomes right now, it’s worth thinking about how the courts […]

Middle Age Flip or Flop

I follow a bunch of lifestyle influencers on Instagram — celebrities who turn their skinny bods and wrinkle-free faces into a profitable side hustle. People like Reese Witherspoon and Gweynth Paltrow have books, products, and massive social media empires that are capitalize on their ability to look nice in yoga pants at age 50. In […]

Travel: Stowe, Vermont

Stowe, and the nearby Burlington, has a cool outdoorsy, hippie vibe. While I’m not much of a skier, I do love sitting by fires reading books, so I was very happy. We stayed at a former motel turned hipster hotel. White, black, neutral decor. Small bedrooms, large common areas. A beer tap in the lobby. […]

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