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Intellectual disabilities, fragile X: Promising treatments being tested for intellectual disabilities - latimes.com - 1 views

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  • It is a moment of triumph for Chase, one of an estimated 90,000 in the U.S. who live with an inherited form of intellectual disability known as fragile X syndrome.
  • On a surprising drug — a workhorse antibiotic used since the 1960s to treat acne, skin infections, strep throat and chlamydia — Chase is learning.
  • The medications are still far from proven: Large-scale trials may take several years to complete. But if they live up to their promise without dangerous side effects, they could accomplish what no medication has been able to: cure a genetically based intellectual disability.
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  • Minocycline, the medication Chase has been taking for almost eight months, is one of several drugs that might correct — even reverse — many of the brain perturbations of fragile X and several other developmental disorders, including autism.
  • "People haven't thought about what it would be like to reverse intellectual disability or mental retardation," says Dr. Randi Hagerman, medical director of UC Davis' MIND Institute, who ran the minocycline study in which Chase was enrolled. "We now think it may be possible."
  • It's a goal as controversial as it is ambitious. For decades, activists and parents championed inclusion for those with what was until recently called "mental retardation" (the preferred term now is "intellectual disability" or "developmental disability").
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Bookshare - Accessible Books for Individuals with Print Disabilities - 0 views

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    Accessible Books and Periodicals for Readers with Print Disabilities
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  • J B on 01 May 11
     
    Sarah Lewthwaite's research focuses on the ways in which the internet-based technologies of 'Web 2.0′ are changing and perpetuating disability
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Technology Must Be Accessible to All, Feds Reaffirm - On Special Education - Education Week - 1 views

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  • "As the use of emerging technologies in the classroom increases, schools at all levels must ensure equal access to the educational benefits and opportunities afforded by the technology and equal treatment in the use of the technology for all students, including students with disabilities," wrote Russlynn Ali, assistant secretary for civil rights for the Department of Education.
  • Schools need to "think about on the front end whether the device is fully accessible,"
  • "If it's used to further the achievement gap and further the opportunity gap...we should prevent that on the front end."
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App Ability - 0 views

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shared by J B on 13 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • J B on 13 Jun 11
     
    Looking at issues and news related to using apps on mobile platforms for people with disabilities, and in particular for AAC.  Rebecca Bright is a speech and language therapist and is part of tboxapps, developers of Predictable and Scene&Heard.
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The #spedchat Project - 0 views

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shared by J B on 03 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • J B on 03 Apr 11
     
    #spedchat is a twitter hashtag used for:(1) daily, continuous research and resource sharing on issues related to and effecting students with disabilities, &(2) a scheduled weekly twitter chat on Tuesday nights from 8:30-9:30 EST.
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