Current Special Education Topics

Helping the Student with ADHD in the Classroom: Strategies for Teachers

http://www.ldonline.org/article/5911/ 

"Are You Listening?" What Inattentive ADHD Looks Like In Kids

http://www.additudemag.com/adhd/article/8144.html 

"Different Not Less," an animated interview on Asperger Syndrome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i67RHDvp_7c&feature=youtu.be

With Eye On Disabilities, TV Gaining New Features

http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2014/12/01/with-disabilities-tv-features/19879/ 

What Can Brain Training Really Do for Kids?

http://www.childmind.org/en/posts/articles/2014-11-24-what-can-computer-brain-training-really-do-your-ki 

Interventions can salve unseen anxiety barriers

http://pdk.sagepub.com/content/96/4/46.full 

Emotionally Disturbed Students at Greatest Risk of Dropping Out, Study Finds

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/inside-school-research/2014/11/emotionally_disturbed_students.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+InsideSchoolResearch+%28Education+Week%3A+Inside+School+Research%29 

 

 

Special Needs Tweets of the Day 8/4/14

This could also be satirical advice for dyslexia, autism, or ADHD.

If Other Illnesses Were Treated Like Depression. 

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2014/08/if-other-illnesses-were-treated-like.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FLUdSt+%28Special+Needs+Digest%29 

Teaching a Child to Wrangle, Not Reject, Rage

http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/teaching-a-child-to-wrangle-not-reject-rage/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&emc=edit_ml_20140731&nl=style&nlid=68965193&_r=1 

A Witness to Corruption: The Merchants of Speed Or The Modern-Day ADHD Medicine Show

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-diller/a-witness-to-corruption-t_b_5625370.html 

The Self-Starving Brain 

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2014/08/the-self-starving-brain.html 

25 Parenting Educators to Follow 

http://www.nesca-news.com/2014/08/25-parenting-educators-to-follow.html 

Immunization Awareness Begins With Disease Awareness

http://shotofprevention.com/2014/07/30/immunization-awareness-begins-with-disease-awareness/ 

Sneak Peek: What Is Understood? 

http://www.ncld.org/ld-insights/blogs/what-is-understood 

Understood http://launch.understood.org/?r=http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.understood.org%2F&ei=BSDhU8jbGqjLigKnwIDYDg&usg=AFQjCNElc6hjL97Eh87zBdkavdBanlUG9w&sig2=0oBNW2cHBE_BCMw4AyN-YA&bvm=bv.72197243,d.cGE