Special needs around the blogosphere

From around the Web, five recent blog entries of interest to parents of children with special needs:

• Special Education Law Blog expert Charles Fox is a special-needs parent, too, and in "In the System, But Not Of the System," he shares a strategy used for his own child. It's a way to make high school less stressful for kids who can stand some inclusion, but may not be up to the pressure cooker of schedules crammed with ambitious courses that so many regular-education students undertake.
• In "Late for Therapy Again," Parenting Children With Special Needs blogger Julia Fuller laments a hectic morning, a call from a waiting speech therapist, and the possibility that she may be getting a reputation as "Bizarro Super Therapy Mom, the exact polar opposite of Super Therapy Mom."
• Blogging Baby's Irene Nam writes about an innovative program to make kids comfortable with a scary medical procedure in "Rocket ship helps French children become less afraid of MRI." Children introduced to that big noisy tube through a simulation inside a "rocket ship" may not need to be sedated when it comes to the real thing.
• Do you have a child who can't tolerate a peck on the cheek or a warm embrace? Elizabeth Coplan offers the alternative of "Virtual Hugs" on the blog A Wild Ride.
• In "Autism and magical developments," Mike Miller of Be a Good Dad writes: "When doctors and teachers talk about autism they often mention things as speech delays and developmental delays. When you are living the day to day with an autistic kid, you can often fail to see the progress as he figures at the world around him. As I read more about adult autism, I’m beginning to realize that Pookie really does have delays, not inabilities. Everyday I’m more sure of the things he is going to be able to do when he grows up. Hopefully my taxes will be one of them."

Do you write a blog, or have one that you enjoy reading? Share the url in the comments below, and I'll add it to my Web rounds.