Special Needs Weekly Update 1/5/14

1. 10-Year-Old Girl Petitions for American Girl Doll With a Disability

http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/10-old-girl-petitions-american-girl-doll-disability-192100133.html#!rcDPG

2. What You Need to Know about IDEA 2004
Response to Intervention (RTI):
New Ways to Identify Specific Learning Disabilities

http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/rti.index.htm

3. Dodging the Power-Struggle Trap: Ideas for Teachers

http://www.interventioncentral.org/behavioral-interventions/challenging-students/dodging-power-struggle-trap-ideas-teachers 

4. Calm for child's 'sensational' brain for sleep

http://special-ism.com/calming-your-childs-sensational-brain-for-sleep/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Special-ism+%28Special-ism%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo

5. Executive Function: Flexible Thinking Strategies for Life-Long Success

http://www.ncld.org/types-learning-disabilities/executive-function-disorders/executive-functioning-process-flexible-thinking-key-success 

6. What Nonverbal Kids Can Gain From Technology 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rachel-cortese-ms-ed-ms-cccslp/what-nonverbal-kids-can-gain-from-technology_b_4468247.html

7. The 200 best special education apps

http://learnegg.com/best-special-education-apps/ 

 

Calm Your Child’s ‘Sensational’ Brain For Sleep
Read more at http://special-ism.com/calming-your-childs-sensational-brain-for-sleep/#YKAreQwCIMjWckuq.99