Person Centered Planning in People With Developmental Disabilities Person centered planning has received much attention in the past as the effective method of meeting the diverse needs of people with disabilities. The person-centered planning takes Continue Reading...
7. National Early Childhood Transition Center (NECTC) http://www.hdi.uky.edu/nectc/NECTC The National Early Childhood Transition Center (NECTC) examines factors that promote successful transitions between infant/toddler programs, preschool progra Continue Reading...
Teaching in the Self-Contained Classroom Music, Art and Phys. Ed. In Self-contained classroom In 1996, the United States Department of Education mandated laws that required school districts to create inclusive programs to integrate students with va Continue Reading...
Elementary Special Education Teachers Place Value in the use of Technology Resources for Students? Alix Desulme Technology is an integral part of society. Students learn through use of technology like personal computers, tablets, and e-books (Garl Continue Reading...
Technology on Society The use of modern communications technology is widely considered to be positive, reducing barriers to communication and facilitating new powerful forms. St. Amant (2002) argues the counterpoint, that computer-mediated communic Continue Reading...
Vineland Behavior Rating Scales The Vineland Adaptive Behavior scales is published by American Guidance Service. It is designed to determine how functional an individual with developmental disabilities. The version published in 1984 rated children f Continue Reading...
Specifically, treatment consists of "customized exercises that specifically concentrate on stimulating the cerebellum to improve functioning and help speed up the rate information is received and processed" (Dyslexia treatments). The theory that Ce Continue Reading...
Serving students with a full range of abilities and disabilities in the general education class room with appropriate in-class support is how Roach (1995) defines inclusion using this practice. Friend & Bursuck (1996) noted that children with d Continue Reading...
Self-Regulation Issues in Children and Adolescence with ADHD, ODD, and OCD Self-regulation in children and adolescence who suffer from ADHD, ODD, and OCD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and Oppositional Defian Continue Reading...
Every special needs student has different strengths and weaknesses. Under IDEA, the IEP is forms the educational standard for all special needs students. The IEP determines the course of their education, goals, and method of teaching. The standards Continue Reading...
Mutism Parents not with great joy as their children meet important developmental milestones. Both first steps and first words are celebrated and described in detail to friends and family. But sometimes as a child gets older, changes occur. Inexplic Continue Reading...
S., experts estimate the genuine number of incidents of abuse and neglect ranges three times higher than reported. (National Child Abuse Statistics, 2006) in light of these critical contemporary concerns for youth, this researcher chose to document t Continue Reading...
" In addition to the highly qualified mandates of NCLB there are also requirements to use research-based education practices over effective-based education practices. The different levels of ability combined with the various qualifiers of special e Continue Reading...
Juvenile/Child Onset Bipolar Disorder Diagnoses of bipolar disorder in childhood are rare, even among adolescent populations. One of the reasons why bipolar disorder is infrequently diagnosed is the “symptomatic overlap with attention deficit h Continue Reading...
Collaboration in the Classroom Schools today face a significant challenge. The school environment is no longer one in which a teacher can expect a relatively homogeneous population in the classroom. In addition to the challenges already posed by cul Continue Reading...
The most common of these were: help with care during school holidays; respite care so that the carer could do things that they enjoyed. Grater levels of unmet needs were reported by parents whose house was considered unsuitable, whose child was repo Continue Reading...
Beautiful Mind Paranoid Schizophrenia Diagnosis and Supporting Evidence A Beautiful Mind is a film that characterizes the story of a brilliant mathematician named John Forbes Nah Jr. He suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and the story is based Continue Reading...
People are aware of the impact that major stressful events can have on a person's life. In general, society is solicitous of people undergoing major stressors like major illness, divorce, or a death in the family. However, it is interesting to note Continue Reading...
Part I: Best Practices Learning disabilities, or specific learning disabilities, is a fairly well defined category that refers to impairments in functioning, typically related to language, perception, memory, or mathematical processing. The classific Continue Reading...
EBD Resources The following is a partial list of organizations that provide services for the parents of children with Emotional Behavioral Disorders (EBD). These resources offer a diverse selection of services that range from direct instruction to p Continue Reading...
For ESL students, services must be provided to allow them to further their education in English. There are several proven methods to accomplish this goal; the first is to create "buddy systems" within the school, where ESL students are able to find Continue Reading...
NYC Education Law Bullying is a common occurrence among district schools in New York City with the major targets often students regarded as different such as the disabled. In this regard, this article highlights a fictitious scenario regarding bully Continue Reading...
Recovery Plan: Biological Attack in the U.S. Congress The havoc and deaths caused by the weaponized anthrax spores that were mailed to members of the U.S. Congress following the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the repeated attempted uses of botul Continue Reading...
Therapies for Mental Disorder Mental disorders represent a wide range of clinical conditions ranging from simple attention deficit, mood irregularities, stress and anxiety conditions to more complex psychotic disorders like schizophrenia, autism, de Continue Reading...
Part I: Definitions and Characteristics Deaf/Hard of Hearing Hearing disabilities occur on a continuum from mild to more serious impairments to the ability to process auditory cues. Deafness is a spectrum of disabilities referring to anything from mi Continue Reading...
Chronic Sorrow Chronic illness is a concept that was brought to the fore over 40 years ago by Olshansky. The term is used to describe the grief and sadness experience that parents of children with disabilities go through for a lifetime. The intensit Continue Reading...
Avoidant Personality Disorder WK 5 DISC - AB WK 5 DISC -- AB GO BY AND IMPORTANT RESOURCES Personality disorder: Avoidant personality disorder According to the DSM, an avoidant personality (Axis II) is characterized by extreme anxiety and an aver Continue Reading...
For instance a patient suffering from hypotonia may receive physical therapy to assist them in gain more control over bodily movements. Likewise an individual with Sotos syndrome that has been diagnosed with ADD may be treated with behavioral counse Continue Reading...
In the past, students with disabilities tended to be isolated from their peers by Special Education paradigms that obliged them to receive learning in a physically isolated setting. Far from helping these children to achieve their full potential, s Continue Reading...
" (p. 12) According to Cromer (2005) the literature that addresses the relationship between stressful life events and obsessive compulsive disorders does provide some degree of support implicating traumatic life-stress as being a factor in the onset Continue Reading...
Object Relations Theory What exactly is 'Object Relations Theory'? What does it deal with? What is it about? The Theory as such is based on the belief and conviction that every single person has within themselves a completely world of relations and Continue Reading...
Depression in Adolescence Depression in Adolescents The link between symptoms, etiology, core biochemical processes, treatment outcome, and treatment response of affective (mood) disorders is yet to be adequately understood for allowing their categ Continue Reading...
Depression in Adolescence Depression in Adolescents The link between symptoms, etiology, core biochemical processes, treatment outcome, and treatment response of affective (mood) disorders is yet to be adequately understood for allowing their categ Continue Reading...
Bipolar disorder is described as a condition in which individuals oscillate between periods of good or irritable mood and depression. The condition is basically characterized with very quick mood swings between mania and depression. Since the disorde Continue Reading...
Visual impairment (including blindness); 9. Multiple disabilities; 10. Deafness; 11. Deaf-blindness; 12. Autism; and, 13. Traumatic brain injury (Evanciew, 2003). In order to overcome the current constraints to learning about proper condom use Continue Reading...
Heward reference is a book review of Nancy Close's book Listening to Children: Talking With Children About Difficult Issues -- It is improper to reference a book review-unless of course you are also reviewing the book. I have included the proper ref Continue Reading...
