6 September 2008
The US What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) announced the availability of three additional intervention reports. In none of the three cases was there sufficient evidence to permit the WWC to draw conclusions about the benefits of the practices.
Breakthrough to Literacy is a curriculum for students in preschool through third grade that introduces them to a [...]
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Over on Weapons of Math Destruction, Oak Norton and Bob Bonham have another fun cartoon. It shows a police officers examining an outline on (presumably) a street; the caption begins, “Common sense was seen fleeing the crime scene….”
Jump over there and have a look at it in a higher resolution.
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In Bogus Bowl V, the voting is pretty close. However, more respondents say that the most bogus reason for professors failing to teach prospective teachers effective methods is that they “don’t want to stifle future teachers’ creativity” than any of the other choices. However, it’s not a runaway; that explanation has garnered only about one [...]
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After the recent posting of another Weapon of Math Destruction cartoon, I wondered how many I’d linked to from Teach Effectively, so I checked. There’ve been only seven posts. Here’s a set of links to those posts (in reverse chronological order; fifo):
Math cartoons
‘Nother weapon
WMD on calculators
Bad math brain
WMD on constructivist math
WMD on FT
Math murdered
Of course, [...]
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Sharon Vaughn, a professor at the University of Texas who studies reading problems and instruction, is slated to present a free, telephone-mediated session on reading for adolescents with reading problems. The dial-in conference is sponsored by the Institute for Literacy and Learning, and it occurs 19 August 2008. The slides for the presentation are already [...]
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ADDitude, a magazine about ADD and ADHD (with a nod to Learning Disabilities), is promoting a story it ran 10 years ago about Olympic swimming star Michael Phelps. Here’s some text the folks at ADDitude asked bloggers to run:
According to an interview with ADDitude magazine about his attention deficit, Michael Phelps’ mom Debbie says she [...]
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Teacher magazine has a blog entry referring to news pieces in the New York Times and the Washington Post about Michael Phelps and his family. Interesting reading for those who are interested in ADHD and families. Check the comments.
Link to the post.
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Thanks to Bret over at 29 Marbles I’ve learned that there is an online debate at Opposing Views about the relationship between Autism and vaccinations. Opposing Views publishes statements by people (”interested experts, opinion leaders and advocates”) its editors have identified and invites others to make comments and vote for the pro or con position [...]
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Wednesday Social Programs that Work, an organization dedicated to , recognized the Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MFTC) program as having strong evidence of its benefits for youths who have many strongly delinquent behavior problems. The developers of the MTFC program include Patricia Chamberlain, Ph.D., John Reid, Ph.D., Philip A. Fisher, Ph.D., and Gerard Bouwman; they [...]
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Gerald R. Patterson
The American Psychological Association (APA) Division 7 (Developmental Psychology), which is holding its annual meeting this weekend in Boston (MA, US), will recognize Gerald R. Patterson with the Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society. The award will, no doubt, be based on Jerry’s [...]
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Last December, Delegates Robert Marshall and colleagues of the legislature of the Commonwealth of Virginia (US) introduced a bill that would require health insurance companies to pay costs of habilitative services for children and youths. A potential effect of the legislation is that families of children with Autism would be able to receive support for [...]
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I discovered that I had mistaken paths for some of the documents in the “Documents” section of EBD Blog, and I’ve corrected them. So, if you’re interested in the contents of the data base on placement literature, those PDFs can now be downloaded correctly. Sorry for the problems.
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Courtesy of the ever-alert Liz Ditz, here’s an opportunity for US parents and others to emphasize issues in services for individuals with Autism and their families (e.g., research on evidence-based practices).
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On September 15, 2008, members of the Services Subcommittee will meet to review all public comments submitted to date, and will present [...]
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Over on A Photon in the Darkness, one can read a good reflection on mitochondrial mutations and their relationship to Autism. Of course, there’s a lot of hub-bub about mtDNA, because of the article by Hannah Elliott and colleagues, “Pathogenic Mitochondrial DNA Mutations Are Common in the General Population,” that appeared in American Journal of [...]
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Over on SpedPro I’ve posted a note about the call for papers for the 14th International Child & Adolescent Conference, to be held 6-8 November 2008 in Minneapolis (MN, US). Jump to that post.
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Over on Kenny Handleman’s ADDADHDBlog I learned of a product recall for Daytrana.
Do you or your child take the Daytrana patch for ADD/ADHD? If you do you need to know that the company that manufactures this drug, Noven Pharmaceuticals, is recalling two lot numbers.
Fortunately, the recall is for problems with the packaging. Parents still [...]
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Professor Elizabeth Sowell and colleagues at the UCLA (CA, US) Department of Neurology have determined that there is a correlation between the thickness of cortices in certain regions of the brain and the presence of Tourette Sydrome (TS) in children. They used magnetic resonance imaging to compared the structure of brains of children with and [...]
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I keep meaning to return to the topic of handwriting, but I’ve not had the time. I want to extend the notes I made about correcting reversals, but work on a book about K-8 reading instruction just keeps getting in the way! However, in part as a reminder to me, I’m dropping a link here [...]
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Writing in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology under the title “The Complex of TFII-I, PARP1, and SFPQ Proteins Regulates the DYX1C1 Gene Implicated in Neuronal Migration and Dyslexia,” Isabel Tapia-Páez and colleagues revealed that they have discovered a group of proteins that apparently act together to control the transcription [...]
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The first of LD Blog’s polls about response to intervention (or instruction) will close the evening (US Eastern time) of 4 August. If you haven’t cast your vote in the poll yet and you wish to do so, jump over there and pick a winner!
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I’ve known about the Literacy Site for a long time, but never thought to link to it from LD Blog until yesterday. If you’ve been around the Internet since it’s first 5 years or so, you probably remember the sound that echoed when the Hunger Site went live. I can remember the desk and the [...]
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Here’s an announcement of the second in the series of polls to assess readers’ perspectives on response to intervention or response to instruction (RtI) and Learning Disabilities. RtI (which was expressly permitted in the US Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), is commonly considered to have multiple tiers of intensity with careful monitoring of students’ progress [...]
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Project Forum, a group that works to inform policy makers and administrators about special education issues, has announced the release of a document about US states’ policies on eligibility for special education of students with Learning Disabilities. The Project Forum paper, which was prepared by Eileen M. Ahearn of Project Forum under a Federal Cooperative [...]
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5 September 2008
(photo courtesy of enjoyfrance.com)
....sort of. Daniel Radcliffe, the actor who plays Harry Potter, has confirmed that he has dyspraxia. Dyspraxia is a disorder that affects motor development....
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Recenlty I received this in my inbox (courtesy of the National PTA) and wanted to share it with you.
Be involved. Parent involvement helps students learn, improves schools, and helps teachers work...
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I subscribe to several newsletters that About.com offers. The following information came in the pediatrics newsletter that I receive weekly.
According to the NICHCY, "as many as 1 out of every 5...
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4 September 2008
Under the headline “In Switzerland, An Easier Path For The Disabled” on US National Public Radio, Julie Rovner presented a story about international differences in care for individuals with Autism. Ms. Rovner contrasts the experiences of Ellen Wallace, Nick Bates, and their 16-year-old daughter, Tara, with the experiences of Nancy Legendre, Walter Herlihy, and their [...]
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Dean Geyer, who is a parent of a child who had difficulty learning to read, has launched a blog entitled “Hey, Teacher, My Child Can’t Read.” His daughter’s experience is, in part, a success story; after five years of special education in Delaware (US), he reports that she is on the honor roll and no [...]
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Being the parent of an ADHD/LD child can be difficult, confusing and just plain old hard at times. The medical lingo can be confusing. The overload of papers and forms to complete can be...
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In a story headlined “AC/OV spankings on the decline,” Carleta Weyrich of the The People’s Defender (OH, US) reported that spankings were used in two of the seven Ohio Valley School local education agency (LEA). The 11 spankings reported in the past two years represents a decline from previous time periods, according to school [...]
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3 September 2008
The following is taken from the CHADD website.
In recognition of ADHD Awareness Week, CHADD, the Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA), and ADDitude magazine have joined forces to raise the...
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My 11 year old ADHD son does best if he knows what is going to happen and when it is going to happen. He flourishes on consistency. This is especially true during the school year. He also likes to...
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2 September 2008
A few years ago, Karen Oswald and colleagues reported the results of an investigation of the use of positive behavior supports (PBS) on middle-school students’ behavior in hallways during the passing time between the last morning class and the lunch period. They worked with a team of school personnel and developed a school-wide plan based [...]
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1 September 2008
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