[caption id="attachment_1274" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Image courtesy of nattavut"][/caption] Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, an anxiety disorder more popularly known by its acronym OCD, can be a debilitating disease. Many OCD patients are literally trapped inside of their own minds, knowing that the compulsive,...
Happy First Day of Spring! For this morning’s CW News, I wanted to share two interesting stories. The first is news from a study conducted by Northwestern Medicine. According to this study, the diagnosis of ADHD among American children has...
[caption id="attachment_1268" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Image courtesy of CNN News (cnn.com)"][/caption] For those of you who were paying attention, the verdict in the Rutgers University spying case was announced this past Friday. Dharun Ravi, the ill-fated former roommate of Tyler Clementi,...
[caption id="attachment_1240" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Image courtesy of graur codrin"][/caption] At the beginning of this week I wrote an important review of a new study by the U.S. Surgeon General that addressed the issue of smoking among teens and young adults...
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 groups, on field trips...
In today’s news, I was able to find two really great articles about the diagnosis and treatment of particular special needs conditions. The first article comes from Medial News Today and looks at a new study examining children with specific...
[caption id="attachment_1233" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Image courtesy of nixxphotography"][/caption] As members of the special education community, many CW readers may have already heard of the recent report filed by the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) titled, “Keeping Schools Safe: How...
For this morning’s news, I wanted to take readers on a tour of some important issues in education and special needs through three, differing, yet related perspectives. First, we check in with an old friend over at Education Week, David...
You have to go back to 1994, seemingly a lifetime ago, to find the last comprehensive report conducted by the U.S. government on youth and smoking, and since then the nation has come a long way. In 1998, the Attorneys...
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 three articles. The first,...
[caption id="attachment_1205" align="alignleft" width="199" caption="Image courtesy of Ambro"][/caption] We are all aware of how much certain media tools, such as iPads and smart phones, have come to dominate out adult lives over the past decade. Even while typing this very...
We’ve been fortunate in New York this year. Like much of the country, we’ve enjoyed a mild winter with lots of sunlight and little snow. This week’s forecast even predicts temperatures in the mid-60s tomorrow. With news like that, my...
