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ChildsWork News, May 15, 2012: New Mouse Model for ADHD and Controversy over ACT Testing Accommodations
In this morning’s aggregation, I want to present two interesting articles about special needs issues that indirectly affect us all in the education community. The first article comes from researchers at Oregon Health and Science University [...]
Fiction & Life: New Study Shows that Losing Yourself in a Character Impacts Action, Beliefs
I am an English teacher, and a proud one at that. I write about STEM curriculum and special ed. because I think they are important, but my first love is, was, and always will be books. [...]
Miriam Kurtzig Freeman on Special Education Reform – Highlighting the Contradictions of IDEA and NCLB
Special education teachers are in a precarious position in the public schools of today. With the pressure to perform on standardized tests via NCLB the threat of the unknown with the Common Core Curriculum and the [...]
New Reports Looks at Connection between Bullying/Ostracism and Depression in Special Needs Students
It’s no secret that bullying in American schools is a mounting problem for all children. As special needs educators the link between bullying and exclusion and children who struggle with additional health conditions or learning disabilities [...]
The Importance of Visual Aids in Special Education
Today, I am sharing a new post with you from one of my favorite special needs bloggers – Gavin Bollard. Gavin is a married father who found out about his own Asperger’s syndrome only once his [...]
ChildsWork News, April 13, 2012: Looking at the New Autism Diagnosis and the Movie Bully
As we head into the weekend, I have two interesting articles for you all to read through. The first, from Science Daily details a study done by Yale Child Study Center concerning the new autism diagnosis [...]
A Rising Number of Oregon Students Need Special Education Accommodations, Report Finds
This week, the state of Oregon’s Department of Education released two reports on the current position of the state’s 84,707 students in special education. The first report focused on the number of students receiving special education [...]
The ‘Twice Exceptional’ Student: Making Sure Special Needs Accommodations Don’t Distort a Child’s Strengths
Over the past few months, I have had the opportunity to address the issue of gifted education but a handful of times. As a former gifted student myself who, in many ways, was failed by my [...]
Quick and Simple Spontaneous Behavioral Situation Data Tracking Tricks for Classroom Teachers, Specialists, and Coaches
Formal data tracking in a structured situation such as a planned academic observation has easily prepared charts, applications, or other devices readily available to track student performance data. But what happens in the classroom, in small [...]
ChildsWork News, March 9, 2012: Focus on Special Needs Issues
As we head into one of the final “winter” weekends this season, I wanted to bring readers’ attention back to our foundational issues here on CW: special needs issues. This morning I am presenting you with [...]
New Congressional Panel on Dyslexia Signals Important Change
• I can not stress enough being aware of the movement difficulty invol
Play “Therapy”: Kansas State Graduate Student’s Autism-Friendly Schoolyard
Glad play time is given its due.
Fiction & Life: New Study Shows that Losing Yourself in a Character Impacts Action, Beliefs
What you are saying here is important, and I can relate to it from my
Fiction & Life: New Study Shows that Losing Yourself in a Character Impacts Action, Beliefs
Thanks Susan! I totally agree. I have to say I was really excited when
Fiction & Life: New Study Shows that Losing Yourself in a Character Impacts Action, Beliefs
I love this blog! It's also very pertinent to career development and