Some of you know my oldest son has cerebral palsy, severe spastic cerebral quadriplegia, to be exact. When DJ was almost a year old (in 1988), I began a crash course in neonatal neurology, pediatric developmental therapy and Children’s Social Services. I embarked upon an eye-opening, life-changing journey to familiarization and exploration of a subculture in which parents of special-needs children raise their kids--a world previously unknown and unacknowledged by me at age 20. Most new mo ...