Parenting
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Here’s How to Help Your Child Earn Independence
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Lately, there seems to be plenty of news articles about how schools are cutting back and making changes to help students and teachers. That’s great. Most every school that I know of needs some type of support anyway, so at least they’re “working on it.” The really, really, fortunate part about this, is that now,…
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Getting Your Kid Help
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People who “walk the walk and talk the talk” understand the how difficult, and also, how wonderful it is to raise a child who has special needs. Over the years, these parents will interact with people, who are not raising an exceptional child, but who are directly involved in our child’s education and development. While…
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Independent Educational Evaluations and 3 Reasons to Keep Them Private
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A “psycho-educational evaluation” is an overall assessment to determine learning disabilities, identify strengths, weaknesses, and cognitive deficiencies. These standardized tests are administered in full and the special sections are performed by various disciplines such as, occupational, speech, and physical therapists. According to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), before a child can receive special education support services,…
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The Impact of Labeling Students With Special Needs
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The idea behind the word “stigma” leaves a painful scar–labels stick and eventually become a blurry mess. As kids get older all that “nice-nice treat others with respect” goes right out the window once those same students transition to middle school and beyond. Unfortunately, your kidlet is subjected to being bullied; especially if he or…
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Winning Strategies for a Successful IEP Meeting
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Parents whose children have an IEP understand the dilemma of taking sides. Many parents are adamant about what they want for their child, yet fail to discuss the needs and wants of their opponent, albeit, the teachers. Of course not…it wouldn’t be a game then, right? Sports teams don’t care one bit what the other team needs because…