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Category Archives: Training
Canine Assistants
From jaime over on Bignity. A great friend of mine (and big-time animal lover) passed along this site after she saw a PBS special dedicated to canine assistants. I’ve personally always dreamed of having a dog. As a kid, I … Continue reading
Posted in Dogs, News, special needs, Training
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Precision Teaching conference pending
The 2010 International Precision Teaching Conference will be held in Seattle (WA, US) 4-6 November 2010. Sponsored by the Standard Celeration Society, a group that promotes the use of systematic data collection procedures and objective analysis of inst… Continue reading
Posted in b mod, behavior, behavior analysis, behavior problems, classrooms, Data collection, fundamentals, Increasing responding, instruction, learning, measurement, News, Other Sites, planning, Press, Professional development, Research, schools, Self-management, teacher education, teachers, teaching, Teaching b mod, Training
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Special Ed Hearing Officer Qualifications – Part IV
Image by Joe Gratz via FlickrLast week we discussed how the new qualifications for special education hearing officers pertain to the education and training of hearing officers. This week I’m going to look at a sample of a bunch of recent court decisi… Continue reading
Posted in Board of education, Gerl, hearing officer, qualifications, Special Education, special education law, Training
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Special Education Hearing Officer Qualifications – Part III
Image via WikipediaLast week we discussed the new qualifications for special education hearing officers. This week, I’m going to talk about how the new qualifications pertain to the education and training of hearing officers.As I have mentioned in eac… Continue reading
Posted in education, hearing officer, qualifications, Special Education, special education law, State Education Agency, Training
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Special Education Hearing Officer Qualifications – Part II
Image by noyava via FlickrIn the first part of this series last week, I discussed the options that parties have when they have a dispute concerning the educational program, etc for a child with a disability. The options are numerous and sometimes conf… Continue reading
Posted in Disability, education, Gerl, hearing officer, IDEA, law, qualifications, Special Education, special education law, Training
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Teach Your Teachers Well: New Hot Topic -Teacher Education
I know that a number of the readers of this blog are professors who teach future teachers. I know a bunch of them, and they are really good at what they do. They are enthusiastic and dedicated to their students and those children whom their students … Continue reading
Posted in education, Gerl, K through 12, Special Education, special education law, Teacher, teacher preparation, Training
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Iwata wkshop Sep. 09
Professor Brian Iwata, who has extensively studied functional behavior analysis, will conduct a two-day workshop entitled “Functional Analysis & Treatment of Severe Behavior Disorders” in Philadelphia (PA, US) on 28 – 29 September 2009. Psychologists may earn 11 CE credits, BCBAs & BCABAs 12 Type 2 CE credits. Walt Antonow, who manages these workshops, advised [...] Continue reading
Posted in behavior analysis, behavior problems, fba, Increasing responding, News, Professional development, Reducing responding, Training
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Florida Autism conference
The Scott Center at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne (FL, US) will host its second annual conference on Autism 6 November 2009. The theme for this year is “Power and Potential of Communication,” and the featured speakers includ Mark Sundberg, Jim Carr, and Bridget Taylor.
Link to the conference Website and to the Scott [...] Continue reading
Posted in Autism, behavior analysis, communication, News, Other Sites, Press, Training
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