Special Needs Tweets of the Day 1/8/14

 

1. How To Motivate Your Students After Holiday Break

http://www.edudemic.com/holiday-motivation/ 

2. Letting Go of the Reins to Allow for Student Self-Advocacy

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/finding_common_ground/2013/12/letting_go_of_the_reins.html 

3. Special Educator Interest in Common Core Heated Up in 2013

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/speced/2013/12/special_educator_interest_in_c.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OnSpecialEducation+%28Education+Week+Blog%3A+On+Special+Education%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo 

4. Are too many kids taking antipsychotic drugs?

Use is climbing despite questions about how safe the drugs are and how well they work

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2013/12/are-too-many-kids-taking-antipsychotic-drugs/index.htm 

5. On Correlation, Causation and the "Real" Cause of Autism 

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2014/01/on-correlation-causation-and-real-cause.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FLUdSt+%28Special+Needs+Digest%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo 

6. Have a kid who’s out of control? A new therapy offers a kind of parental empowerment.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/have-a-kid-whos-out-of-control-a-new-therapy-offers-a-kind-of-parental-empowerment/2013/12/20/3bf3a56a-dab1-11e2-9df4-895344c13c30_story.html?wpisrc=emailtoafriend 

7. Child Find

http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/child.find.index.htm