Recent Education Blog | Special Education PostsPersonal Assistants for Studentsby Lyn Newton20 Dec 2007 04:49 PMThe 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. Grouping Special Education Students for Scheduling Purposesby Lyn Newton14 Aug 2007 01:55 PMScheduling 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. Educating Twice-Exceptional Studentsby Lyn Newton07 Jul 2007 07:51 AMSince 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. The Movement to Inclusionby Lyn Newton26 Jun 2007 05:20 PMWhen 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. Asperger's and School Accommodationsby mommytotwo04 Aug 2006 05:57 PMI 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. Dyslexia and School Accommodationsby mommytotwo03 Aug 2006 11:44 AMIn 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. Accommodations for the Child With Dyscalculiaby mommytotwo02 Aug 2006 11:15 AMDyscalculia 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. Accommodations and Strategies for the Child with Dysgraphiaby mommytotwo02 Aug 2006 10:44 AMI 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. Integration and the Behavior Disordered Studentby mommytotwo24 Jul 2006 03:08 AMAfter teaching children with behavior disorders for several years, I often wondered exactly what parents of general education students thought of my students. Labeling Special Education Studentsby mommytotwo23 Jul 2006 07:00 PMWhen 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. Recent Blog Comments GoldenRaysOfSun says... "It sounds great and I agree with many points made here." |
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"I agree with you because as students we didnt take things as serious as we should have but now that we know that we will be teaching knowledged to someone other than ourselves; then we want to make that imperssion."
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