The longer I'm involved with special needs issues, the more people I know who tell me that they have special needs kids, and the more I wonder whether there is any such thing as normality. Perhaps everyone has an individual learning style, and the educational system is just now in the early stages of learning how to recognize these differences, and to provide each person with what they need to learn.

Lucius, thank you for reviving this thread.

Barry, I'll be posting the song to a discussion list for parents of gifted children with special needs. I won't try to critique it, I'll just tell you how much I appreciate it. As I see it, my daughter's problem is that she is trying to learn new things that are very difficult for her and being overwhelmed by frustration - and that's exactly them problem my wife and I have when we try to learn how to deal well with her.

Barry, Allison: how old are your kids? My Asperger's daughter is nine and a half.

Jacob