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Roger Holt

Gazette opinion: Writing prescriptions for better mental health - 0 views

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Montana Mental Health

shared by Roger Holt on 28 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Montana’s mental health safety net is full of holes.Stigma, lack of insurance, Medicaid restrictions and a shortage of mental health professionals all contribute to the “state of despair” that reporter Cindy Uken has been detailing in a Billings Gazette series on suicide. The state’s suicide rate — the highest among the 50 states and double the national average — is cause for alarm. Yet it isn’t the only terrible symptom of Montanan’s mental health care gap.
Roger Holt

Gazette opinion: Don't be afraid of Montana Common Core - 0 views

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montana common core standards

shared by Roger Holt on 12 May 14 - No Cached
  • Montana Common Core standards were adopted in 2011 by the Montana Board of Public Education. The standards set a floor, the minimum knowledge that students should have at every grade level, said Tobin Novasio, Lockwood Schools superintendent. Schools may add to that as local boards decide.
Roger Holt

Gazette opinion: Making autism services a sure thing for Montana kids - 0 views

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autism Montana

shared by Roger Holt on 26 May 15 - No Cached
  • After months of political controversy over covering Montana’s uninsured, it’s time to applaud a smaller change that will make a lifetime difference for some disabled Montana tots.
Roger Holt

Gazette opinion: Years of waiting after disabled youth leave school - 0 views

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montana

shared by Roger Holt on 08 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Parents of developmentally disabled Montanans probably left a recent legislative forum with more questions than answers.Most of the 14 legislative candidates attending the June 17 forum at City College in Billings admitted they didn’t know much about services for folks with disabilities.To their credit, the candidates came to learn.
Roger Holt

Guest opinion: Parent's perspective on kids with special needs - 0 views

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montana disability parents

shared by Roger Holt on 18 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • I believe it is not ranting or venting to make others aware of challenges that parents and caregivers face when supporting children and adults with diverse abilities. It is crucial that these stories are told to those who can help to bring back the spirit of inclusion, respect, acceptance, friendship, and unity that we so clearly saw during the games.
Roger Holt

Gazette opinion: Families need strong advocates - 0 views

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Montana Mental Health

shared by Roger Holt on 26 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Families with mentally ill children face many extra hurdles. Costs and access to care are just part of the challenges. Despite significant scientific progress in understanding and treating mental illnesses over the past 20 years, many people still blame parents for children’s illnesses. Stigma is a heavy burden for a family with a child who is ill with a brain disorder. Treatment systems still tend to leave parents out of the process.
Roger Holt

Gazette opinion: Mental health care ought to be covered like other care - 0 views

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Montana Mental Health

shared by Roger Holt on 01 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Suppose the typical U.S. health insurance plan didn’t cover treatment for cancer. Or suppose most American insurance companies put annual and lifetime benefit limits on cardiac care, limits that didn’t apply to other ailments. Imagine that the health plans still covering heart care applied higher deductibles to that treatment than to other health care bills. These ideas are outrageous, yet they are reality for American families living with mental illnesses.
Roger Holt

Gazette opinion: Law should stop encouraging 16-year-old dropouts - 0 views

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school dropouts graduation

shared by Roger Holt on 06 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Thirty-one states, including Alaska, Colorado, South Dakota, Washington and Oregon, have laws requiring teens to stay in school till age 17 or 18. Montana is among the minority of states that allow students to legally drop out at 16.
Roger Holt

Gazette opinion: Bullock brightens outlook for state's mental health - 0 views

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Montana Mental Health

shared by Roger Holt on 01 Mar 10 - Cached
  • The attorney general’s settlement of a 3-year-old lawsuit against a major pharmaceutical company will benefit Montanans who struggle with mental illnesses. The timing of this windfall is fortuitous, coming just as demand for mental health services is rising and state funds for covering them may be shrinking.
Roger Holt

Gazette opinion: A plan for sustaining local mental health services - 0 views

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Montana Mental Health

shared by Roger Holt on 21 Mar 10 - Cached
  • When people are suffering from cancer, diabetes, heart disease or broken bones, their first line of help is usually a doctor’s office or hospital emergency department. However, for people suffering from mental illnesses, the first line of help often is police officers, sheriff’s deputies or even the county jail.
Roger Holt

Gazette opinion: Why mental-health care is a public safety issue - 0 views

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Mental Health Montana

shared by Roger Holt on 09 May 10 - Cached
  • Yellowstone County voters will find many candidates for office on the June 8 primary election ballots, but only one ballot issue: a proposed 3.2 mill countywide levy to help sustain mental-health services. The three county commissioners, Bill Kennedy, John Ostlund and Jim Reno were unanimous in their decision to put the question to voters. The commissioners are asking voters to consider funding a portion of some local crisis mental-health services that help local law enforcement agencies do their job of protecting public safety.
Roger Holt

Gazette opinion: Montana's future depends on raising fit kids - 0 views

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montana Children

shared by Roger Holt on 23 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Children in Montana are more likely than their fellow American kids to engage in physical activity daily, spend less time watching television or playing video games and are less likely to have a television in their rooms. Thirty-two percent of U.S. children ages 10 to 17 are overweight or obese, compared with 26 percent of Montana children. This information comes from the 2007 National Survey of Children’s Health, which included telephone interviews with 1,800 Montana households.
Roger Holt

Gazette opinion: Charity begins in hospital for kids with mental illnesses - 0 views

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Mental Health

shared by Roger Holt on 03 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Every week an average of 10 children with serious mental illnesses are admitted to Billings Clinic Psychiatric Center and about the same number are discharged. Most young psychiatric patients stay less than a week. “We try to stabilize them in two or three days,” said Terry Smith, a clinical social worker who cares for kids at Billings Clinic. The kids come from the Billings area, the Hi-Line, Eastern Montana and beyond. Billing Clinic is the only psychiatric hospital in the eastern half of the state that cares for children. It serves all children who need its services, but two-thirds of them depend on Medicaid — the state-federal health program — to pay their medical bills.
Roger Holt

Long-term studies chart autism's different trajectories - - 0 views

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autism study

shared by Roger Holt on 05 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Two new studies that follow the development of children with autism suggest that distinct subgroups of the disorder exist early on and that the severity of symptoms in most of these children remains stable over time. 
Roger Holt

Lawmakers should support good mental health - 0 views

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Montana suicide prevention

shared by Roger Holt on 05 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • The terrible toll of suicide is a symptom of systematic problems in our state. Lack of access to timely, effective mental-health care, shortages of mental-health professionals, lack of insurance and overwhelming stigma that makes people reluctant to seek needed care all contribute to suffering that all too often ends with suicide.Knowing that we have a problem is the beginning of understanding how to solve it. But action is needed on the state level to ease Montana's suicide problem.
Meliah Bell

Wired Wednesdays!!! - Billings, MT - Many Dates - 0 views

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assistive technology Technology Montana Training

shared by Meliah Bell on 19 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Meliah Bell on 19 Oct 12
     
    Creating A Google Website
    October 24th, 2012
    5:30pm-8:00pm
    MSUB College of Education Building, Room 122 In this series of classes Ronda McManus will explore how to create and maintain a workable website using Google Tools. Websites can be created for a personal digital portfolio, a classroom, or a business. Participants will learn how to use many Google tools such as calendar, documents, presentation, and forms and how to incorporate them into a workable website. Ronda will cover each Google tool and give participants an opportunity to develop content that will be utilized to develop a website at the end of the series. Click here to register for Google Docs
    Google Docs
    November 7, 2012
    5:30pm-8:00pm
    MSUB College of Education Building, Room 122 Google Docs is a suite of products that lets you create different kinds of online documents, work on them in real time with other people, and store your documents and your other files -- all online, and all for free. Learn how to create various documents, presentations, drawings, spreadsheets, and forms. In addition, learn how to use Google Docs professionally in teaching and in collaboration with colleagues, from making Digital Kits to using forms to survey parent and student interests.   Click here to register for Assistive Technology
    Assistive Technology
    December 5, 2012   5:30pm-8:00pm
    MSUB College of Education Building, Room 122  Participants will have an opportunity to learn and use a variety of
Sierra Boehm

The iPad as an Instructional Tool in Small Groups - Webinar - Feb. 11, 2014 - 0 views

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webinar ipad

shared by Sierra Boehm on 23 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Sierra Boehm on 23 Jan 14
     
    Register for this event

    What:
    This webinar will provide participants will an overview and demonstration of apps that lend themselves to being used in group instruction when projecting the iPad image on an interactive white-board, screen or other large display or just using it around a small table. Various methods for displaying the iPad will be demonstrated. Apps that lend themselves to writing instruction, morning gathering, social stories, emotions and language development will be demonstrated and discussed. Participants will see the value of using the iPad with groups to enhance participation, language and routine. Some of the apps that will be highlighted are Clicker Sentences, I Get It My Daily Schedules, Mobile Education Builder apps Writing a Recount and Writing an Opinion by Hatt Designs as well as several others.

    When:
    Wednesday, February 11, 2014
    1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Mountain

    Cost:
    $49.00
Roger Holt

On education technology, college lobbyists are keeping disabled students behind - Opini... - 0 views

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accessible-instructional-materials

shared by Roger Holt on 17 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Yet another semester is underway, and students with disabilities will yet again be left behind because schools are not providing equal access to electronic materials. The issue has been a subject of escalating tension between students with disabilities and their universities. Surprisingly, a common-sense, noncontroversial solution to solve this problem exists in a bipartisan, bicameral bill being considered by Congress. Even better, Massachusetts representatives have taken center stage in support of this solution; the Senate version was introduced by Senator Elizabeth Warren and cosponsored by Senator Ed Markey, and Representative Joseph Kennedy III supports the House version. So what’s the hold-up? A vague, unexplained opposition to “accessible instructional materials” on the part of colleges and universities and their lobbying associations.
Roger Holt

News Channel 13 - Opinions Sought on Proposed State Cuts - 0 views

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Montana budget

shared by Roger Holt on 22 Feb 10 - Cached
  • The governor\'s office is proposing $40.5 million in budget cuts.  $17 million would come from the Department of Public Health and Human Services.  The biggest cut would be $6 million in planned provider rate increases for doctors, child care and foster care providers, disability services and children\'s mental health services.
Roger Holt

'Google' Ruling on Digitizing Books a Boon for Blind Readers - On Special Education - E... - 0 views

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google blind reading disability technology reading

shared by Roger Holt on 12 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • When a federal judge this week threw out a copyright infringement lawsuit against universities working on a project with Google to digitize millions of books, he unleashed Google's plans and opened the door to the distribution of these books to people who are blind or have other print disabilities. The National Federation of the Blind on Thursday applauded the ruling, saying it will give blind students and scholars fresh access to the 10 million books placed in the digital library created by Cornell University, Indiana University, University of California, University of Michigan, and the University of Wisconsin.
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