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We’ve had the good fortune to have special education attorney Wayne Steedman provide us with high quality, professional answers to complicated special education law questions (IEP, ESY, LRE, AYP, MET, NCLB … if all these letters are leaving you feeling l-o-s-t, check out our “Special Education Terms” section of the Education tab) on our show [...]
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I’m subscribed to so many different news sources and RSS feeds that in the morning it’s like an avalanche of news and stories cascading down my screen.
Normally, I read through the ones that catch my eye and then throw a couple of good ones in the – blog about it pile. Invariably though I’m only [...]
Guests
Nancy Kaufman – Director Kaufman Children’s Center
Speech challenges and speech delays are a hurdle that many children, and families, have to work exceptionally hard to overcome. Fortunately, if diagnosed early enough and treated properly many of these challenges can be overcome, or eliminated entirely. Nancy Kaufman is a nationally recognized expert in the area of [...]
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Catherine Lord – PhD, Univ. of Michigan Autism & Communication Disorders (UMACC)
Laura Fitton – Twitter For Dummies, OneForty.com
This was a busy, but exceptionally informative, week on the show where we were fortunately able to land two great interviews that we’ve been working on for some time.
Catherine Lord at the University of Michigan is simply doing [...]
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I came across this biting criticism of charter schools and children with disabilities recently on the Education Week website. The part that caught my attention was that the editorial was written by the former Director of The US Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs under former President Bill Clinton. It’s not uncommon to see [...]
News Stuff
Acid syringe ‘could spell an end to dentist’s drill’ | Mail Online
This sounds cool and I’m all in favor of anything that’s faster and involves less pain. However, the idea of squirting an “acid” filled syringe into my mouth (or anywhere near me really) sounds like the scheme of a Batman villain and makes [...]
Itchy tags.
Doesn’t like socks.
Won’t sit still.
Always fidgeting and moving around.
Sensitive to sounds.
Sensitive to light.
Difficult time properly using pens, pencils, etc.
Could it be you’ve got an Out-Of-Sync child?
These days it seems like there’s a condition for everything under the sun. If your child (or you even) does anything short of sit still and follow directions there’s [...]
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I’ve got to admit these stories always make me cringe a little bit. I like stories about kids that achieve, but am always concerned when it involves kids with challenges because the skeptic in me wonders are they using the kid as a mascot and not a player …. this isn’t one of those [...]
We spoke with Barabara Coloroso about her book “The Bully, The Bullied and the Bystander”.
We first came across her in the Costco Connection magazine, believe it or not, and thought she had some good information and good approaches. Coincidentally enough in the last couple of months we’d had a couple of parents talk to us about [...]
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“Parents will always be catalysts for education reform.”
def: Catalyst: An agent that precipitates -or- accelerates fundamental change
In what is sure to be a phenomenally informative show, this Sunday on the “My Great Kid” Radio Program (Sunday 8:00am-9:00am, WAAM 1600am or online at www.waamannarbor.com; A podcast will be posted after the show) we will be interviewing Peter [...]
Journalist David Kirby, from the Huffington Post and author of “Evidence of Harm”, discusses the newest numbers showing a sharp increase in Autism, concerns over the Hepatitis B vaccine and boys and his newest book “Animal Factory”.
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This week on the My Great Radio Show we focused on the Swine Flu and the new reports showing an increase in Autism. We interviewed Dr. Vicky Debold from the National Vaccine Information Center about the development of the vaccine, it’s safety and the push being put on to vaccinate the nation.
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Is the H1N1 flu really targeting children with disabilities?
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