Program Supports Students with Autism and Emotional Challenges
by Eric Freehling - New educational gear in the new year should help PACE students get back to their regular schools faster. At least that’s the hope of teachers and the supervisor at the school for...
View ArticleAutism Parents and Advocates Pioneered Independent Living Concept
by Julie Gruenbaum - Just try asking Connie and Harvey Lapin to recap 44 years as parent activists in the world of autism. In hyperactive tag-team, the couple bursts forth with stories and ideas, only...
View ArticleCounty Adds Incentives to its Efforts in Hiring Special Education Teachers
by Thomas Goldsmith - Joshua Welch, 10, does well in his elementary school classroom when he has a teacher trained to deal with his autism, his mother said. But Wake County needs to find more than...
View ArticleParents must be ready every day to advocate for their children
by Dan Morse - Adult twins with autism locked in a barren basement room every night. No lights. No bed. Their parents charged with abuse. The criminal allegations against Janice and John Land that...
View ArticleI’M NOT RETARDED I’M SMART NOT A MENTAL GIANT BUT I AM INTELLIGENT
by William Stillman - These are the words that were communicated to me by a 16-year old young man whom I was visiting in his rural high school classroom on a crisp and wintry January morning. Like most...
View ArticleThe back to school special needs segregation special
by Liza Long - But by not integrating children with mental illness into the general school population, we contribute to the ongoing stigma. This week, all my friends are posting Facebook and Instagram...
View ArticleTeacher shortages impact students with special needs
by Rebecca Parr - Jeffrey Esquivel let go of his mother’s hand and slowly brushed a miniature donkey, the only moment at his school’s Halloween carnival that the first-grader with autism stepped...
View ArticleSchool districts have a shortage of special education teachers
by Audrey L. Hollingshead - Castro Valley Unified is short on Special Education teachers, leaving some students on the spectrum with substitute teachers still in training. The growing demand for more...
View ArticleClassroom behavior management apps raise privacy worries
By Natasha Singer - For better or for worse, the third graders in Greg Fletcher’s class at Hunter Elementary School always know where they stand. One morning in mid-October, Mr. Fletcher walked to the...
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