Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In a year of abortion restrictions, biotech industry upheaval, and revolutionary drug approvals, First Opinion strived to publish the most surprising, provocative, and conversation-starting essays from a wide variety of contributors. Below, you’ll find our top six most-read articles of the year by page views. Why six instead of five? Because why not? And if…

As a special educator, IEPs are something that we have frequent contact with. Whether we are writing an IEP after an initial evaluation, re-evaluation, annual review, domain, updating goals and benchmarks, or reviewing accommodations and modifications, IEPs are legal documents that should be visited throughout our time with our learners. An IEP should not be…

Accessibility Settings In order to look at what accessibility features are available on the iPad, go to the settings icon, scroll down and select ‘accessibility.’ Here you will find the options grouped in categories: vision settings, physical/motor settings, hearing and general settings. Apple has some awesome resources on their website as well, check out this…

8-Year-Old With Autism Has Hard Moment at School – Principal Does Something Shocking That Goes Viral A photo went viral after many praised this man’s act of compassion. Teaching can be a tiring and thankless job, especially when it comes to dealing with students from many walks of life. That’s why when the story of…

December 3, 2023 Birthday Countdown: Communication Without Words My son Cooper is nonspeaking. I know that’s a confusing classification. I even sometimes struggle to explain it. See when it comes to autism, and the spectrum you hear about, the waters are often muddy. He said his first word at age 8. It was mom. Now…

This 29-year-old woman is getting married to her fiancé, 32. They ultimately planned for their wedding ceremony to be open to all ages since her sister has a toddler, and a lot of their other family members also have children. They planned for their reception, where alcohol will be served, to be adults-only. Her sister,…

December 4, 2023 Brother, Advocate, Helperautism, autism and siblings, autism mom, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Autism Support, autism support group, boy, inclusion, school and autism, son, Special Needs Child, special needs family, Special Needs Mom, Special Needs Parenting, special needs parenting blog Recently we ventured to the store for a few things. Eggs. Milk. Nerf gun…

December 13, 2023 The Way He Brothers I was rushing to get out of the house. Helping Cooper with his shoes and wrestling the baby into her jacket. Only she’s in that…‘I do it myself mama’ phase. I filled water bottles and packed a bag and grabbed snacks. Made sure kids had hats and gloves…