30 September 2008
I have just completed a two-part story about homework and your ADHD/LD child on the health site Trusera. Part one details general views about the demands of homework currently placed on...
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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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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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28 September 2008
According to an article on AdditudeMag.com, the following six accommodations are most effective for ADHD and/or LD children:
Seating the student near the teacher and away from doors and windows....
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27 September 2008
photo from cache.daylife.com
Since I live right in the midst of Hokie Country, I thought it only fitting to share this story...
Stephan Virgil, starting cornerback for Virginia Tech, was diagnosed...
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Johnson & Johnson recently created a channel on YouTube featuring videos about various health conditions. One of the series of videos is about ADHD. So far they only have three videos posted, but...
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26 September 2008
National Bullying Prevention Awareness Week is Oct. 5 - 11, 2008. It is sponsored by PACER Center’s National Center for Bullying Prevention and cosponsored by the American Federation for Teachers,...
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25 September 2008
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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23 September 2008
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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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21 September 2008
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'm sorry...... those two tiny little words carry an enormous amount of weight and for some reason are incredibly hard to say for some parents.
After all, we are human. It is inevitable that we're...
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18 September 2008
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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The US What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) has released a review of the research on another beginning reading program, the Houghton Mifflin Reading© series. As has become expected, no studies meet the pristine standards to which the WWC holds research.
No studies of Houghton Mifflin Reading© that fall within the scope of the Beginning Reading review meet [...]
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The Reading First Advisory Committee’s response to the Reading First Interim Impact Study has been posted on the US Department of Education Web site. The report, which the committee endorsed 20 August 2008, explains the reasons that the committee considers the impact study incapable of guiding Reading First policy. It is available from the Reading [...]
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According to a report by W. Steven Barnett, although preschool programs are highly variable in their quality, there is good reason to support policies that make preschool available to young children, especially preschool programs that employ effective practices. The report, “Preschool Education and Its Lasting Effects: Research and Policy Implications,” was released today by the [...]
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The International Task Force of the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) is holding a program and live Webcast entitled, "The New International Disability Rights Treaty And Why the Disability Community Should Care" on Wednesday, 17 September, from 2:00-3:15. The event, which is co-sponsored by Easter Seals, the Association of ...
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THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT OF TEACHING AND LEARNING
Assistant or Associate Professor in Special Education
Position: The Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Iowa invites applications for a tenure line faculty position at the rank of assistant or associate professor in the area of special education.
Description: The ...
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I got this quite welcome news from a representative to the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities.
House and Senate negotiators have hammered out a compromise on legislation to require private health insurance plans to cover mental health and addictive disorder services under the same terms and conditions as other types ...
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The Council for Exceptional Children is searching for a director for its office of Professional Development and Standards
Position Title:
Director of Professional Development and Standards
Classification:
Category 8 (Exempt). Salary: Commensurate with experience
Unit:
Professional Development and Standards
Reports To:
Associate Executive Director for Professional Services
Selection Procedure:
Evaluation of written ...
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The School of Education
Department of Special Education
Position Announcement for Chairperson/Professor
The School of Education at the University of Kansas is seeking a Chairperson/Professor for the Department of Special Education to assume responsibility by July or August, 2009. The Department of Special Education is nationally recognized for its doctoral, post-doctoral and master's ...
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The Department of Education in the Commonwealth of Virginia (US) has withdrawn controversial proposals that would have limited parents' authority in the education of their children with disabilities and would have changed the administrative reporting lines of special education hearing officers. Here is the lead from an article entitled ...
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TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
College of Education and Human Development
Department of Educational Psychology
Open Rank Position in Special Education
for additional information: http://epsy.tamu.edu/articles/open_positions
The Department of Educational Psychology (EPSY) at Texas A&M University (TAMU) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Special Education. We seek an individual with outstanding accomplishments in or ...
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Joanne H. Hook Dean’s Chair in Education Renewal and Dean
College of Education
University of Missouri
The University of Missouri at Columbia (MU) seeks a dynamic and visionary leader for the position of Dean of the College of Education. The Dean reports directly to the Provost and has a central role in ...
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Dan Habib created a film about his family's efforts to ensure that their son, who has cerebral palsy, can participate as fully in life as they hope. Christina Samuels has a blog entry about her interview with Mr. Habib that merits reading.
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Paula J. Burdette, of U. S. National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE) group called "Project Forum" sent this notice to me.
The following Project Forum document was recently prepared under Federal Cooperative Agreement H326F050001:
Coordinated Early Intervening Services (CEIS): Policy Forum
(click here to link to document)
This Policy Forum ...
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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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17 September 2008
University of Kansas: Assistant Research Professor
Working title: Project Coordinator
Position Number: 00207039
Position Overview: Juniper Gardens Children's Project is a community-based research institute affiliated with the University of Kansas. We are seeking an Assistant Research Professor who will work with a multi-site team of senior researchers who ...
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During today’s behavior management class, we spent a little time talking about differential reinforcement of incompatible (DRI) behavior. I asked students to list a behavior they didn’t want to have occur in their own classrooms and then identify an incompatible, pro-social opposite (IPSO) for that behavior. We then talked about using DRI to promote the [...]
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Let's face it, being the parent of an ADHD/LD child isn't easy. There are days that you may feel like pulling your hair out. When those days come around, take a moment to read to following. The...
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Though I have no intention of creating the turning SpedPro into a focus on Sarah Palin and Special Education, I thought some might find it helpful to have a set of links to other sources about the topic. Herewith, my current collection. Please add others by commenting.
There are two threads ...
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16 September 2008
In honor of ADHD Awareness Week (Sept. 15 - 19, 2008), I am giving away one item from my Affordable ADHD & LD Products blog. Want to know how to enter to win? It's so simple.
Just leave a...
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For those who are seeking accurate reporting about Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Sara Palin and her action regarding special education funding as governor of Alaska, Christina Samuels has the best content I know. She's thoroughly examined the evidence and laid to rest some of the misinformation that's floating around the ...
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15 September 2008
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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14 September 2008
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