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• Say It, Rhyme It, Spell It

  
  Special Education and Learning Differences — Authority: 108
  Emergent Readers and Struggling Readers Have Fun Learning and Discover Reading SuccessSay It, Rhyme It, Spell It is an engaging game, made in two levels, that helps emerging readers and struggling readers become familiar with words that follow a consonant-vowel-consonant (c-v-c) pattern. The reproducible worksheets ...
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• How TinyEYE and University Programs Can Partner

  
  Marnee Brick's Speech Therapy Telepractice Blog — Authority: 114
    TinyEYE welcomes the opportunity to work with University/College Speech-Language Pathology and Speech-Language Pathologist Assistant programs.   As the 2009 recipient of the Award for Business Excellence in Health Innovation, TinyEYE is well prepared to contribute to your initiatives. Collaboration may happen ...
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• Recommended Reading for November 10

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 647
  Transcript from Melissa Barton Interview This is a transcript of Sharon daVanport’s interview with Melissa Barton for the Asperger Women’s Association. Melissa’s son Alex was voted out of his kindergarten class Survivor-style by his teacher, Wendy Portillo, in May 2008; Alex has Asperger Syndrome. The Bartons ...
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• Detention, A Cure for Gas?!

  
  Half-Past Kissin' Time — Authority: 424
  [The following is one of my favorite posts, originally published 10/07. The chuckle is worth the repeat!] Yesterday, I wrote a referral for a 6th grade (female) student who just wont stop farting out loud in class. (Yes, I said farting . And female.) So, the principal gets wind of it (haha) and sends me a note, ...
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• State funds to help mainstream special needs students

  
  Courier Times Now — Authority: 603
  The Bristol Township School District has secured about $40,000 in state funds to train teachers and parents to work with students who have autism, anger management concerns and other behavioral health issues, officials said. The training is part of the district’s ongoing effort to include more special education ...
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• Bricks Without Straw

  
  The Life That Chose Me — Authority: 106
  I always intended this blog to be mostly informative and supportive for parents and other teachers that do what I do.  In the earliest days, it was also a place to vent my spleen mostly about NCLB and the GAA.  Those things are still vent worthy and I’m overdue for a vent.  But today I’m throwing up yet another ...
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• To all the girls he’s loved before…

  
  What We Need — Authority: 113
       C loves the ladies. And they love him back. From his early days of charming grandmotherly types at the post office and calling every woman he saw a “pretty lady,” it’s always been about the girls. There’s a few he’s left behind; most notably the “it” girl of elementary school, if there is such a ...
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• The Price of Justice: Backdoor Effects of the Recession on Special Education

  
  Special Education Law Blog — Authority: 417
  Maybe I wasnt looking in the right place. I was expecting that the severe downturn in the economy would cause a movement to permit school districts to argue that expense or cost should be a defense in special education cases. I even ran a poll in this blog to that effect. The result was a resounding no. But as ...
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• Having The Right Language Software

  
  Homeschool Facts — Authority: 461
  Language software which is now proliferating in the market is one of the most sought after gadgets for easy and fast way to learn different languages. No need to worry where to find software of this...
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• Teaching Is Starting To Be Fun Again. Finally.

  
  Education On The Plate — Authority: 405
  Image via Wikipedia I’ve spend most of my teaching career trying to push, pull, and otherwise motivate students who have failed so often that they have all but given up on the idea of school. Don’t get me wrong; I don’t think that giving up on school is always a bad thing, just that there are sometimes ...
  3 days ago

• Poll Results In; Were Back in First Place

  
  Special Education Law Blog — Authority: 417
  As a part of the fun component of the special education law blog, we run a poll on the lefthand side of the blog. These are not scientific endeavors, and we do not pretend that the results resemble science in any way. Nonetheless, we think that they are fun. The most recent poll just ended. The question was: ...
  4 days ago

• Blog Accomplishment

  
  Pissed Off — Authority: 508
  Im not sure if this blog had anything to do with it, but, the ISS supervisor just sent out an e-mail explaining IEPs, especially the confidentiality portion which was missing with the IEPs. It feels good to know that my bitching may actually be helping our students. BTW, the boy I was confused about here still has ...
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• Teach Your Teachers Well: New Hot Topic -Teacher Education

  
  Special Education Law Blog — Authority: 417
  I know that a number of the readers of this blog are professors who teach future teachers. I know a bunch of them, and they are really good at what they do. They are enthusiastic and dedicated to their students and those children whom their students will be teaching. But the way we train teachers is suddenly in the ...
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• Opinion: Special ed underfunding causes inequitable treatment

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 436
  From the Muskegon [MI] Chronicle:Public school superintendent Steve Cousins writes that special education is the largest underfunded mandate for Michigan school districts.  While Michigan works to provide special-education services to a wider range of people than any other state, lack of federal and state funding ...
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• A Partnership That Works

  
  Edwize — Authority: 466
  [Editors note: Teaching in Brooklyn is a fourth-year teacher at a Brooklyn elementary school.] After spending my first two years as a first grade teacher working solo in an elementary school classroom of 28 students, I was recently hired at a new school as the general education teacher working with a special ed ...
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• Enriching Multiple Language Skills with One Trick

  
  Marnee Brick's Speech Therapy Telepractice Blog — Authority: 114
  When trying to support children who have language challenges, how can you possibly address grammar, sentence structure, verb tenses, pronouns, concepts, comprehension, and other skills all at once – while teaching an entire class?  A good place to start is to integrate PRE-TELLING; TELLING, and RE-TELLING (PTR) ...
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• IDEA Legislative Recommendations

  
  Principal's Policy Blog — Authority: 106
  On Nov. 3, 2009, NASSP released its Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Task Force Legislative Recommendations. The nine recommendations were developed by the IDEA Task Force , which is composed of 11 active middle level and high school principals or assistant principals and four representatives from ...
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• More Stimulus Math: Cooking the Books on Stimulus Jobs

  
  Big Government — Authority: 798
  Earlier this year the federal government sent $3 billion tax dollars to the state of Illinois to provide financial support for education as part of the American Recovery and Investment Act of 2009, a.k.a. “the stimulus,”.  Not for building schools, mind you.  There is money for that elsewhere in the $787 billion ...
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