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Terry Booth

Summer Fun for Kids with Special Needs - Billings - Multiple Dates thru Summer - 0 views

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camp montana summer activities

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Terry Booth

Integrated Dance Summer Intensive 2012 - Seattle - Aug. 13-18, 2012 - 0 views

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dance summer activities

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    What:

    The integrated dance summer intensives has been hosted in the dance program at the University of Washington for three consecutive years. The week of classes consists of two complementary courses the Five Day Intensive and the Round Table, a forum for artists, educators and scholars working in the field of dance and disability.


    Where:

    University of Washington

    Seattle, WA


    When:

    Five Day Intensive, August 13-17

    Round Table, August 13-17, plus 18

    Contact:

    J. Koch - kochj@uw.edu


Terry Booth

SEPTA Meeting - Bozeman - July 2, 2012 - 0 views

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montana SEPTA

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    What:
     Special Education Program:
    Update & Discussion with Marilyn Davis
    SEPTA Treasurer and member of the State Special Education Advisory Panel


    Where:
     Bozeman School Foundation
    The Willson School Boardroom


    When:
    Monday, July 2, 2012
    Begins 6:00pm Mountain


    Contact:
    Alyson Ball - kball977@hotmail.com

Roger Holt

Most Children With Autism Diagnosed at 5 or Older - 0 views

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  • May 24, 2012 -- New research provides a snapshot of what life is like for school-aged children with autism spectrum disorder in the U.S.

    The findings, which appear in the NCHS Data Brief, highlight areas where there is room for improvement, including earlier diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder and access to behavioral therapies and other services. The new study looked at children aged 6 to 17 with special health care needs and autism spectrum disorder in 2011.

    More than half of school-aged kids were age 5 or older when they were first diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, the study showed. Less than 20% were diagnosed by age 2. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that pediatricians screen children for autism at 18 months of age.

Roger Holt

Hechinger Report | Do 'zero tolerance' school discipline policies go too far? - 0 views

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  • Suspension rates have more than doubled over the last three decades across all grade levels. At the same time, racial gaps have widened: Black students are three and a half times as likely to be suspended or expelled as their white peers, according to Department of Education data released earlier this spring. The Office for Civil Rights gathered the data from 72,000 schools in 7,000 districts, which educate approximately 85 percent of the country’s students.
Roger Holt

New radio for the visually impaired features a helpful voice - Houston Chronicle - 0 views

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technology visual impairment

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  • Best Buy recently unveiled a new tabletop radio with voice prompts that guide users as they change channels and maneuver other push-button commands.

    It's the technology retailer's first product designed for the nation's estimated 20 million visually impaired, but experts say consumers can expect to find similar technology in a growing number and variety of products for the home and workplace.

Roger Holt

How Should Students With Learning Disabilities Be Identified? - On Special Education - ... - 0 views

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Learning Disabilities RTI special education Assessment

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  • Who are students with learning disabilities? It depends on what state or school district you live in.

    The combination of a surge in the use of response to intervention and a lack of consensus about how much of a role cognitive assessment should play in an evaluation prompted the National Center for Learning Disabilities this month to issue a new set of guidelines on its view of how students with specific learning disabilities should be identified.

    As the use of RTI has grown, there have also been concerns that it has been used inappropriately, delaying or preventing the identification of some students as having learning disabilities, or other disabilities.

Terry Booth

Teaching the 21st Century Teenager: Using Arts Strategies to Motivate Student Learning ... - 0 views

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montana Teachers teaching workshop

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    What:
     Are you looking for new ways to keep your students engaged? Learn how to use arts strategies to create powerful learning experiences for middle and high school students. This hands-on workshop will show you how to use drama, creative writing, and visual art to deepen the teaching of language arts, social studies, history and/or current events. You will leave with effective teaching strategies and the confidence to use them in your own classroom. This workshop is designed for 6th-12th Grade Teachers of Language Arts, Social Studies, History and/or current events.


    When:
    Tuesday, August 14th, 2012
    9:00am - 4:00pm Mountain


    Where:
    MSU-B Downtown Campus - Seminar Room
    208 N. Broadway
    Billings, MT

Roger Holt

Libraries and Autism: We're Connected - 0 views

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autism libraries

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  • In 2008 the Scotch Plains Public Library and the Fanwood Memorial Library, together with our partners, created Libraries and Autism: We're Connected. This award winning project produced a customer service training video and website primarily for library staff to help them serve individuals with autism and their families more effectively. The video focuses on what you need to know about autism and will empower you with specific techniques to offer more inclusive service to this growing and underserved population.
Roger Holt

Easter Seals-Goodwill boasts array of camps, activities for special-needs children : Th... - 0 views

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Montana summer Camps

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  • For more details, a complete list of camp offerings and registration information, contact Angela Boos at Easter Seals-Goodwill at 406-657-9721 or via email at angelab@esgw.org. Space is limited in some of the camps. Scholarships are available.
  • It is just one of a half-dozen summer camps that Easter Seals-Goodwill is offering in Billings that caters to children with special needs. The summer roster, which runs from June through August, also includes:
  • A weeklong handwriting camp for preschoolers with fine-motor challenges.
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  • A Kids on Campus program, in conjunction with Montana State University Billings, to provide three camps: Movin’ and Groovin’ (music therapy fun), Art Camp for Sensory Integration and team building and social skills training.
  • Two Sibshops planned for children who have siblings with special needs. This is an interactive daylong event for these youth to chat about the challenges of having a sibling with special needs.
Roger Holt

'Robust' preschool experience offers lasting effects on language and literacy - 0 views

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Preschool

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  • Worried that using that longer word might stump your 3-year old? Worry no more.

    New research from Peabody finds that preschool teachers’ use of sophisticated vocabulary and analytic talk about books, combined with early support for literacy in the home, can predict fourth-grade reading comprehension and word recognition.

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Many babies with development delays may go untreated | Reuters - 0 views

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Early Intervention

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  • (Reuters Health) - About one out of every three infants who scores well below average on a test of developmental skills -- and is therefore considered at a high risk of having delays -- does not get referred to early intervention services, according to a new study.
Roger Holt

Missed Opportunities in the Referral of High-Risk Infants to Early Intervention - 0 views

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Early Intervention

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  • CONCLUSIONS: In spite of the specialization of neonatal follow-up programs to identify high-risk infants with developmental delays, a large proportion of potentially eligible infants were not referred to early intervention.
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Children Show Wide Range of Views on Mental Illness - 0 views

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Mental Health middle school

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  • The results of a survey of middle-school students in four states indicate a need for better education about mental illness and ways to reduce stigma.
Roger Holt

RFB&D is now Learning Ally! | Learning Ally, formerly Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic - 0 views

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Learning Disabilities blind reading audio books

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  • Founded in 1948 as Recording for the Blind, Learning Ally serves more than 300,000 K-12, college and graduate students, veterans and lifelong learners – all of whom cannot read standard print due to blindness, visual impairment, dyslexia, or other learning disabilities. Learning Ally’s collection of more than 70,000 digitally recorded textbooks and literature titles – downloadable and accessible on mainstream as well as specialized assistive technology devices – is the largest of its kind in the world. More than 6,000 volunteers across the U.S. help to record and process the educational materials, which students rely on to achieve academic and professional success. 
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Katie Beckett Leaves Legacy For Kids With Disabilities : NPR - 0 views

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Katie Beckett

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  • Katie Beckett died Friday morning in the same hospital where she'd once made history. Beckett was 3 years old when her case changed health care law. She was 34 when she died. NPR's Joseph Shapiro explains why she was important to other children with disabilities.
Roger Holt

Technology accessibility is improving, but big challenges lie ahead - 0 views

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technology accessibility

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  • When the iPad debuted two years ago, there was lots of talk about whether people beyond the iPhone and Mac faithful would use such a thing.
  • But it became very clear to a particular group of people - for those with - that the device could be a new tool for communication and education in that community, something perhaps even Apple didn't foresee. Some autism-related apps aid conversation between parents and children, while others help with learning words or social skills.
Roger Holt

How the Blind Are Reinventing the iPhone - Liat Kornowski - Technology - The Atlantic - 0 views

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iPhone blind accessibility

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  • At first many blind people thought that the iPhone would never be accessible to them, with its flat glass screen. But the opposite has proved true.
Terry Booth

Autism Society National Conference and Exposition - San Diego - July 25-28, 2012 - 0 views

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Autism conference

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    What:
    The Autism Society recognizes that families and individuals living with an autism spectrum disorder have a range of issues and needs. Our National Conference addresses the range of issues affecting people with autism including early intervention, education, employment, behavior, communication, social skills, biomedical interventions and others, across the entire lifespan. Bringing together the expertise and experiences of family members, professionals and individuals on the spectrum, attendees are able to learn how to more effectively advocate and obtain supports for the individual with ASD. The ultimate goal is to empower family members, individuals on the spectrum and professionals to make informed decisions.


    When/Where:
    July 25-28, 2012
    San Diego, California

Roger Holt

Do Parents Have Diplomatic Immunity in Education? - Walt Gardner's Reality Check - Educ... - 0 views

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