Special Education, Autism, Cognitive Disability, ADD/ADHD
Coming Up Short
Nov 10, 2015, by Dawn GibsonIDEA, Special Education, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Teaching
My entire adult life has been devoted to those individuals with special needs, twenty-six of those years, professionally. I have worked with students whose diagnoses span a vast array of medical terms. Some of my students had medical names for their diagnosis that when written out, were as long as...
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Autism, Cognitive Disability, Learning Disorders
A Way That Makes Sense In The Real World
Nov 1, 2015, by Dawn GibsonSpecial Education, Testing, Teaching , Diagnoses
This past week I read an article about a special education teacher that ended up quitting due to the the ridiculous and inappropriate testing that was being required of her students. As I read through the story, and the subsequent comments on the story, I found myself shaking my head...
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