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Home | NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness - 1 views

  • NAMI started as a small group of families gathered around a kitchen table in 1979 and has blossomed into the nation's leading voice on mental health.
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      NAMI beginnings
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    Many mental health resources national level
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Home Page - NAMI Minnesota - 1 views

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    MN specific NAMI resources.
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Traumatic Brain Injury / Concussion | Concussion | Traumatic Brain Injury | CDC Injury ... - 0 views

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    CDC information on traumatic brain injury, pediatric, adult, medical, therapy and much more. Printable information as well.
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Total Physical Response (TPR) - The Teacher Toolkit - 0 views

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    "The purpose of TPR is to create a brain link between speech and action to boost language and vocabulary learning"
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Cerebral palsy - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic - 0 views

  • Cerebral palsy is a group of disorders that affect movement and muscle tone or posture. It's caused by damage that occurs to the immature, developing brain, most often before birth.
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    Mayo Clinic info
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About Us | Cerebral Palsy Guidance - 0 views

  • Cerebral Palsy Guidance was created to provide answers and assistance to parents of children with cerebral palsy. Our goal is to reach as many members of the cerebral palsy community as possible, building up a network of support, as well as providing necessary assistance.
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    Guidance and information. resources, financial assistance
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What is Non-Verbal Learning Disorder | NVLD Symptoms | Child Mind Institute - 2 views

  • What Is Non-Verbal Learning Disorder? Difficulty picking up concepts and patterns affects kids visually, socially and academically
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      Nonverbal learning disability definition
  • Like autistic kids, kids with NLD often have trouble picking up social cues.
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      what kinds of troubles kids with NLD have
  • Recognizing NLD patterns
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      how to recognize NLD patterns
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  • LD affects other, “non-verbal” kinds of learning like the ability to notice patterns and learn concepts. These include visual patterns, social patterns, and concepts in language and math.
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    Good article about non-verbal learning disorders
jkolodji

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) - 0 views

  • AAC means all of the ways that someone communicates besides talking. People of all ages can use AAC if they have trouble with speech or language skills. Augmentative means to add to someone’s speech. Alternative means to be used instead of speech.
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    Communication besides speech. Augmentative (Add to) or Alternative (instead of).
jkolodji

Developmental Delay - 1 views

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    "A child up to age seven who is experiencing a measurable delay in development according to diagnostic instruments and procedures fits the Developmental Delay (DD) disability category."
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Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) - Home Page - 1 views

  • Office of Special Education
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    birth-21 years. grants, parent training and more
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What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)? | ADA National Network - 0 views

  • The ADA is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, including jobs, schools, transportation, and all public and private places that are open to the general public. The purpose of the law is to make sure that people with disabilities have the same rights and opportunities as everyone else.
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      Came into effect in 1990 which is crazy considering that really wasn't that long ago
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NIMH » Autism Spectrum Disorder - 0 views

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      Changes in ASD as chidden go into adulthood
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      Evaluation can be done later to diagnose the ASD
  • Learn life-skills necessary to live independently Reduce challenging behaviors Increase or build upon strengths Learn social, communication, and language skills
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Intellectual Disability - 0 views

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      Again through the lens of a SLP, language development is important with ID and ASD
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What is Intellectual Disability? - 0 views

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      ID - I like that this comes from a non-clinical view point, but also has factual information.
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Autism Spectrum Disorder - 0 views

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
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      ASD through the lenses of SLPs
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What is Autism Spectrum Disorder? | CDC - 1 views

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      Definition of ASD
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Frontiers | Differentiated Instruction in Secondary Education: A Systematic Review of R... - 0 views

  • Differentiated Instruction in Secondary Education: A Systematic Review of Research Evidence
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      Differentiated instruction in secondary education
  • Differentiation is a philosophy of teaching rooted in deep respect for students, acknowledgment of their differences, and the drive to help all students thrive. Such ideas imply that teachers proactively modify curricula, teaching methods, resources, learning activities, or requirements for student products to better meet students' learning needs
  • Although the concept of differentiated instruction is quite well-known, teachers find it difficult to grasp how differentiated instruction should be implemented in their classrooms
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  • Table 1. Theoretical model of within-class differentiation.
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Blind vs. Visually Impaired: What's the Difference? | IBVI | Blog - 1 views

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      definitions of VI
  • partially sighted, low vision, legally blind and totally blind.
  • isual impairment is “a decrease in the ability to see to a certain degree that causes problems not fixable by usual means, such as glasses.”
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  • four terms
  • Blind vs. Visually Impaired: What’s the Difference?
  • means a person has partial vision, either in one or both eyes.
  • refers to a severe visual impairment in which visual acuity is 20/70 or poorer in the better-seeing eye and cannot improve with glasses or contacts.
  • person has a corrected vision of 20/200 in their best-seeing eye.
  • refers to a complete loss of sight.
Kelly Nuthak

What is the meaning of PTE? - thePTE - 1 views

  • What is the meaning of PTE?
  • earson Test of English.
  • computer-based English Competency test.
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    Pearson test of English
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