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 From the Website: "In Wretches & Jabberers: And Stories from the Road, two men with autism embark on a global quest to change attitudes about disability and intelligence. Determined to put a new face on autism, Tracy Thresher, 42, and Larry Bissonnette, 52, travel to Sri Lanka, Japan and Finland. At each stop, they dissect public attitudes about autism and issue a hopeful challenge to reconsider competency and the future."

Apportunities with iPads is a forum originally designed for 20 teachers and parents in the state of Minnesota who are involved in an iPad Project with children who have deaf-blindness. The intent of this forum is to establish a tool that will allow teachers and parents within this project to connect and share experiences about the use of the iPad as an instructional tool with this population of learners. The broader intent of this forum is to weave together the ever-changing face of app use within the field of special education and students with severe and multiple disabilities.

The e-DBRC system is an electronic daily behavior report card that allows teachers and schools to progress monitor prosocial behavior, communicate with parents, implement interventions and make data based decisions. Using an A-B-C-D-F grading system (modified for early childhood settings to red, yellow, green/happy, neutral, sad faces) the e-DBRC is an effective efficient method of data collection and reporting on behavior.