Schools will need to iron out a lot of details. If services are missed, the U.S. Department of Education says IEP teams must consider make up or “compensatory” services. Andrew M.I. Lee, JD editor of Understood and former attorney who strives to help people understand complex legal, education, and parenting issues Lindsay Jones, JD chief executive…
Education
Why It’s Smart School’s Out For Coronavirus
“We do not know why children under 9 do not have issues with the virus. They have very high concentrations of the virus and there’s no obvious reason they should not transmit efficiently … X-rays of children’s lungs show that they’re clearly diseased & clearly infected, but they don’t show any symptoms” Ralph Baric, Ph.D….
Eating fruit during pregnancy boosts babies’ brain development, new study confirms
” The idea that nutrition may also impact mental health and cognition has only recently started to gain traction,” Rachel Ward-Flanagan co author of study University of Alberta A follow-up to a University of Alberta study done in 2016 confirms that pregnant women who eat more fruit during pregnancy may be giving their babies’ cognitive development a…
Study: Baby and adult brains sync up during play
Have you ever played with a baby and felt a sense of connection, even though they couldn’t yet talk to you? New research suggests that you might quite literally be “on the same wavelength,” experiencing similar brain activity in the same brain regions. I just read this study and thought this would be very interesting…
Study: Toddlers using ‘screens’ more than 1 hour a day may have lower speech skills
“In addition to the MRI results, excessive screen time was significantly associated with poorer emerging literacy skills and ability to use expressive language, as well as testing lower on the ability to rapidly name objects on cognitive tests” Associations Between Screen-Based Media Use and Brain White Matter Integrity in Preschool-Aged Children John Hutton MD JAMA…
20 Inspiring Children’s Book Quotes
All of us know the book ‘All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten. That wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school. Share everything. Play fair. Don’t hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess….
Should contingency management plans include planned aversive consequences?
Should only positive reinforcement be specified or should plans be made to use multiple contingencies that include aversive consequences? With “normal” subjects addition of a mildly aversive contingency will often neither help nor hurt. Hundert (1976) compared giving tokens, taking tokens away for failure to emit the target behaviors a mildly aversive token cost punishment…
AI Brings Voice To Vulnerable Children
For children on the neurological spectrum, there is a 28 time higher risk than that of typical children for suicidal thoughts or attempts. Depression was the strongest single predictor of suicide contemplation or attempts in children with autism. Penn State College of Medicine researchers New Study Finds AI Can Detect Hidden Depression in a Child’s…
My Quiet Boy
My Journey from Practitioner to Parent to Advocate Looking back on this journey, I recall the many times I heard, “he will be fine” or “just wait and see, he will talk when he is ready” or “he doesn’t feel the need to talk because you are talking for him”. I don’t think people were…
Back To School Useful Links
Back to school time can be exciting, but for many of us with special needs students, it can also be stressful. Here is information that may make the transition easier. Some parents like to start out the year with a letter to the teacher to explain their child’s diagnosis (and in particular if it’s it’s…
