March 19, 2018
Source: Channel 5 News These mothers and their children recorded a carpool karaoke with a twist – they want to “show the world just how ordinary and fun life with Down’s Syndrome is and how they wouldn’t change a thing”. Down’s Syndrome Association Check out the Carpool Karaoke Video here!
March 16, 2018
By: Michelle Diament
Source: Disability Scoop Nearly all children with autism are dealing with at least one other condition — and often several — ranging from anxiety to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, sleep, behavioral and gastrointestinal issues, a new study suggests. In an analysis of records on almost 1,900 kids on the spectrum, researchers found that […]
March 15, 2018
By: Michelle R. Davis
Source: Disability Scoop Lawmakers are urging the Trump administration to convene multiple committees tasked with advising the federal government on disability issues that appear to have been put on hiatus. The three panels — The President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities; The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research […]
March 14, 2018
By: Andrew Ujifusa
Source: Education Week The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to approve the STOP School Violence Act, which aims to train teachers and other school staff in violence prevention and fund other programs to help stop incidents like the school shooting in Parkland, Fla. H.R. 4909 would reauthorize the Secure Our Schools grant program and […]
March 14, 2018
By: Mark Walsh
Source: Education Week In the most dramatic display of civic activism by American students in recent memory, tens of thousands walked out of their high schools Wednesday and took part in somber, politically charged demonstrations marking the Feb. 14 shooting that killed 17 educators and students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in […]
March 12, 2018
By: Courtney Perkes
Source: Disability Scoop An innovative new program is aiming to ensure that the next generation of doctors is far more prepared to treat the needs of those with intellectual and developmental disabilities. A half-dozen medical schools across the country are already part of the effort dubbed the National Curriculum Initiative in Developmental Medicine. […]
March 12, 2018
By: Lauren Camera
Source: U.S. News Florida, long considered a pioneer in adopting myriad school choice programs, has earned another mark of distinction: It has become the first state to make private school vouchers available to students who are bullied, regardless of income. Republican Gov. Rick Scott on Sunday signed a sweeping education bill that, […]
March 11, 2018
By: Emily Hanford
Source: NPR Ed Dyslexia is the most common learning disability, affecting tens of millions of people in the United States. But getting help for children who have it in public school can be a nightmare. “They wouldn’t acknowledge that he had a problem,” says Christine Beattie about her son Neil. “They wouldn’t say […]
March 7, 2018
By: Amelia Harper
Source: Education Dive Dive Brief: Though the American School Counselor Association recommends that counselors work with 250 students each, the average caseload for school counselors is 482 students, NPR Ed reports. Mental illness in school garners a lot of attention when school shootings occur, but school psychologists already have heavy work loads, […]
March 7, 2018
By: David Tow
Source: Edutopia I lost my first student to suicide not long ago. The student was no longer in my class at the time, nor even at the school, but I was flooded with the expected surge of feelings: overwhelming sadness, periodic despair, compulsive frame-by-frame replays of our every interaction. I felt the loss […]