Special Education, Autism, Cognitive Disability, ADD/ADHD

Coming Up Short

Nov 10, 2015, by Dawn Gibson

IDEA, 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 Gibson

Special 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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