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• Unless Youve Been There

  
  Pissed Off — Authority: 507
  Crissy looked like every other teenage girl in the school. She dressed in stylish clothes. She carried the "in" book bag of the day. She always arrived on time to class and she never had to be told to open her notebook and get to work. She handed in homework daily. I dont know the label Crissy was given but Crissy ...
  23 hours ago

• Diploma Versus Certificate Track for Special Education Students

  
  Top Colleges Blog — Authority: 444
  When working with special education students at the high school level, one decision you and the case conference committee may be called upon to determine is whether or not the student will pursue a high school diploma or a certificate of completion. Determining the right path for your students is a very individualized ...
  1 day ago

• Joint board committee to revisit funding formula issue

  
  Courier Times Now — Authority: 543
  Local school officials will try again to come up with a new method to finance operations at Bucks County Technical High School. Joint board committee members of the comprehensive tech school agreed Monday night to pay a consultant up to $4,000 to help them examine funding issues, particularly those related to special ...
  2 days ago

• Telepractice is a Gift: Celebrating 15 000 Sessions!

  
  Marnee Brick's Speech Therapy Telepractice Blog — Authority: 116
  It isn’t the size of the gift that matters, but the size of the heart that gives it.~Quoted in The Angels’ Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994Hi Everyone,This month, TinyEYE is celebrating 15 000 on-line speech therapy sessions.  What feels wonderful about this milestone is that we serve ...
  2 days ago

• WMF Press: CHC cognitive profiles of gifted report (Margulies & Floyd, 2009)

  
  Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) — Authority: 133
  Researchers focusing on cognitive assessment research, particularly that focused on CHC theory and assessment, should take a peak at a new publication outlet for quicker dissemination of research results (which the authors retain the copyright for possible publication in professional journals). "The WMF Press™ ...
  2 days ago

• How Much Help is Too Much Help for Special Education Students?

  
  Top Colleges Blog — Authority: 444
  It is an age-old debate in the world of special education – how much help is too much help? This debate has grown even more over the past several years as special needs students are increasingly included within general education classrooms. Now, special education teachers not only need to determine how much help to ...
  3 days ago

• ASHA Convention ’09: Our Free Gift for SLPs

  
  Marnee Brick's Speech Therapy Telepractice Blog — Authority: 116
  In union there is strength.~AesopHello Everyone,It was an absolute privilege to attend the ASHA convention in New Orleans with members of the TinyEYE team.People from around the world met at the convention center to learn and share knowledge about advancing speech-language pathology.  As I said during my presentation ...
  3 days ago

• HelpKidzLearn

  
  Talking SMARTBoards & Much More! — Authority: 126
  HelpKidzLearn is a collection of free software for young children and those with learning difficulties to play online. The software is catagorized into four sections: Games and Quizzes, Stories and Songs, Creative Play, Find Out About. Many of the options work very well with the SMARTBoard - I love the Snakes ...
  4 days ago

• Winstanley on Homeschooling Gifted Children

  
  Homeschooling Research Notes — Authority: 110
  This post reviews Carrie Winstanley, “Too Cool for School? Gifted Children and Homeschooling” in Theory and Research in Education 7, no. 3 (November 2009): 347-362 Winstanley , Principal Lecturer in Education at Roehampton University in London,  here argues that gifted children form a distinct group of ...
  4 days ago

• Advancing Miracles

  
  The Life That Chose Me — Authority: 107
  One of the reasons for my frustration, is that I am forever looking to advance my students along.  The current economic and political realities seem bent on thwarting those efforts, and I suspect every teacher feels this way.  We want to keep moving forward, but get bogged down by forces beyond our control. But we ...
  4 days ago

• The Art of Remembering for Students With (and Without) Special Needs

  
  Art Journals — Authority: 145
  What child doesn’t enjoy cutting up paper, peeling off stickers, or stamping? Students of any age and ability level love every opportunity to work with arts and crafts. For this school year, try guiding some of your child’s creative spirit into scrapbooking and paper crafts. Scrapbooking is a wonderful way to ...
  5 days ago

• More On ISS

  
  Pissed Off — Authority: 507
  For some great thoughts on ISS students go over to Under Assault . She says everything Ive been saying much better than I ever will.
  5 days ago

• Principles Of Forex Trading Signals

  
  Make Cash Online Today — Authority: 154
  Forex market is very famous for its fragility and quickness, and at the same time it is a great money-making possibility. Forex business is often said to be very easy. Is it true? Actually, yes and no. Let us find out why. Forex market is comparatively easy to understand and deal with. It requires no special education ...
  6 days ago

• Could an IEP be What Your Child Needs?

  
  EmpoweringParents.com — Authority: 121
  As a parent of a special needs child, one often does not know where to begin. It all can depend on how old the child is when he or she is diagnosed. If a child is age 3 or older, one of the first things a parent should do is to request his or her child to have an individualized education plan (IEP) . Even if a ...
  1 week ago

• The Education Wars III

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 149
  K-12 education isnt the only thing under siege thanks to our worsening economy : BERKELEY, Calif. — As the University of California struggles to absorb its sharpest drop in state financing since the Great Depression, every professor, administrator and clerical worker has been put on furlough amounting to an ...
  1 week ago

• Barriers to Teaching Non-speaking Learners with Intellectual Disabilities and their Impact on the Provision of Augmentative and Alternative Communication

  
  COMD News — Authority: 157
  The purpose of this investigation was to gain an understanding of the challenges of teaching non-speaking learners with intellectual disabilities and the scope of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) used in primary school settings in Gaborone, Botswana. A qualitative interview methodology was used to ...
  1 week ago

• i know i wasn’t the best teacher in the world, but this is ridiculous

  
  mommymae — Authority: 128
  so i used to be a special education teacher. my last year, i taught 8th grade resource, which was reading, writing & math to kids with varied learning disabilities. a lot of my kids also used the speech and language pathologist (slp,) so i also worked with her on a regular basis. i know what it takes to get these ...
  1 week ago

• More on Standards of Care for Disability Categories- a Responsible Opposing Viewpoint

  
  Special Education Law Blog — Authority: 119
  We have some great readers. Hers is just one example: I ran a post a few days back on the recommendations for changes to IDEA by the National Association of Secondary School Principals. You can view that post here . They had some good ideas, I felt, but I took them to task on the idea of standards of care for ...
  1 week ago

• National Adoption Month: Falyn’s Story

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  “Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Family” is a series of conversations and blog posts celebrating National Adoption Month . This post in the series comes from Falyn, a part time teacher and masters student in early childhood special education. Falyn was adopted by a lesbian couple at the age of 13. I ...
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• Finish The Year The Wright Way…Sign Up For A Wrightslaw Conference

  
  The Wrightslaw Way — Authority: 411
  Mark your calendars! Join Pete in Oklahoma City, Pat in St. Paul and Wayne in Peoria, IL.FREE - December 3, 2009: Oklahoma City, OK - Special Education Law and Advocacy Training sponsored by the  Oklahoma Disability Law Center and Partners in Education Advocacy. Speaker: Pete Wright.December 3, 2009: St. Paul, MN - ...
  1 week ago

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