Monthly Archives: May 2008

After reading this blog for a while, you might be aching to become a hearing officer yourself. Although I have chronicled some of the trials and tribulations of my fellow hearing officers (for example, I have been at conferences where some people spit… Continue reading →

The UK incarnation of the Reading Reform Foundation provides a glimpse into some of the thinking supporting systematic and synthetic phonics. Here’s clip from it’s home page:
You are entering fascinating territory as these are very exciting times regarding the debate on how best to teach beginning reading in English-speaking countries. English is taught in many [...] Continue reading →

Wheeeheee! Over on the Skeptic’s Dictionary, Robert T. Carroll has a take-down and pin of Brain Gym. The contemporary incarnation of some ideas that were thoroughly discredited in Learning Disabilities in the 1970s, Brain Gym is making something of a splash. Shoot, it even appeared in one of my Curry School colleague’s classes for a [...] Continue reading →

In a systematic review of the research about parent training, Jennifer Wyatt Kaminski and colleagues of the US Centers for Disease Control identified factors that contribute to the effectiveness of programs that help parents manage the problematic behavior of their children. Of the 18 factors that they examined, only five proved to be important. Parent [...] Continue reading →

Liz Ditz has a post noting today’s status as “International Dyscalculia Awareness Day, Today.” Read it here.
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April is Autism Awareness month. It’s a good time to stop and reflect on how much we have learned from systematic and dogged research over the time since I first became aware of Autism. In the mid 1960s, I was already working with some children who had received that diagnosis, but knowledge about it was [...] Continue reading →

HEAD, DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL EDUCATION
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

Position: The Department of Special Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks a full-time tenured Professor of Special Education, who is an established scholar with effective leadership and administrative qualities, to serve as Head of the Department. … Continue reading →

The folks at The IRIS Center, a national center that provides resources for teacher educators concerned with students with disabilities, announced the availability of a dictionary of terms used in special education. It’s online and free!

We at the IRIS Center are pleased to announce the re-launch of the IRIS Online … Continue reading →

The folks over at The Arc are searching for a senior administrator for TheArcLink, the organization’s means of providing resources for individuals with disabilities and their families so that they can make informed decisions about services and participate actively in their communities. Here’s a brief version of the announcement:

This key … Continue reading →