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Personal Assistants for Students

by Lyn Newton

The public school system provides many services for its students. Some of these services are academic related and some are not. Some services provided by the public school system are home related. Others are health related.

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Grouping Special Education Students for Scheduling Purposes

by Lyn Newton

Scheduling is always a big task for schools. Many schedules have to be created at the beginning of each school year. The task is even more complicated when new positions are added or old positions are taken away. Cafeteria schedules must be created.

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Educating Twice-Exceptional Students

by Lyn Newton

Since the No Child Left Behind act five years ago, there has been much talk about various groups of children being "left behind". As society and as educators, we group children into categories by learning abilities, race, economical status, gender, and so on.

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The Movement to Inclusion

by Lyn Newton

When I was in elementary school we all knew that the students taken out of the class each day were special education students. We knew that the students were going to receive extra help from the special teachers.

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Asperger's and School Accommodations

by mommytotwo

I was reading another of Kristyn's blogs the other day. This blog's topic was why one mother chose to homeschool her son who happened to have Asperger's. You can read it here if you would like.

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Dyslexia and School Accommodations

by mommytotwo

In my previous blogs I have been discussing the specific types of learning disabilities and what schools should be doing to accommodate the student that has them. I have touched on dysgraphia and dyscalculia.

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Accommodations for the Child With Dyscalculia

by mommytotwo

Dyscalculia is a learning disability that occurs when a child struggles in math. Dyscalculia doesn't have a specific area of math that defines its diagnosis. Instead, dyscalculia can occur in any area of the large spectrum that is mathematics.

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Accommodations and Strategies for the Child with Dysgraphia

by mommytotwo

I was reading with interest a blog in the special needs section of Families.com by a blogger named Kristyn. This blog was about the different types of learning disabilities that could affect your child.

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Integration and the Behavior Disordered Student

by mommytotwo

After teaching children with behavior disorders for several years, I often wondered exactly what parents of general education students thought of my students.

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Labeling Special Education Students

by mommytotwo

When I was teaching, I was often torn about the labels put on my students. I taught behavior-disordered and learning-disabled students. Everyone knew it, even the other students. My "kids" as I called my students, knew they were labeled.

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