I See The Potential
Phoebe Prince Jon Carmichael Jaheem Herrera Yeardley Love Charles Walker-Hoover All children bullied to death. Phoebe Prince and Yeardley Love are probably two names that you recognize quickly and easily. But they represent a fraction of the children that are being bullied in this country. While politicians are hurriedly trying to get out in front [...]
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How Do We Keep Our Kids Safe? This week’s show was a doubleheader with two great interviews both dealing with that same question. First up was the husband and wife team of Carolyn and Andrew Gammicchia founders of the organization L.E.A.N. On Us whose stated mission is to: Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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We shared the air with health care advocate and Vaccine expert Mary Tocco on April 18th and Mary shared with us a TON of useful information, stats, facts and figures about the US Vaccine program. I know this is one of those lightning rod topics. It seems the whole Podcast: Play in new window | [...]
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Great interviews this week! Jim Amick from Nordic Naturals, who is one of the show sponsors but he’s one of the show sponsors because we’ve been long time fans of Nordic Naturals Fish Oils, joined us to tell us a little bit about fish oils and the Nordic Natural products. You hear all the time [...]
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We’re hearing lots of hype about the Apple Ipad this week and I have to admit that after checking one out myself it’s a pretty impressive little tool. The question of course is …. what kind of tool is it really? It’s easy to criticize it as just a blown up IPod, Ipod Touch, Iphone, [...]
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Thanks to our newest sponsors – Tree Town Toys – we’ve now got some additional giveaways for the month of April, in honor of Autism Awareness. We already announced earlier this week our Wrightslaw Special Education CD giveaways and now we also have …. 4 – $25 Tree Town Toy Gift Certificates To Give Away [...]
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As a special “thank you” to all of our friends and in honor of Autism Awareness Month (and oddly enough Stress Awareness Month – coincidence that these two are both in the same month?) we are offering the following My Great Kid – Help My Kid Giveaway What are we giving away …….
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Currently in the “Autism world” there is a huge debate raging about the nomination of Ari Ne’eman by President Obama to the National Council on Disability. His nomination has since been blocked by virtue of a Senate procedure called a “parliamentary hold”. Of the eight nominees to the council only Mr. Ne’eman’s has been blocked. [...]
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Dentist. Not my favorite place to go. Actually, it’s one of those places that I HATE to go. With a passion. It turns out that I’m not alone. According to a study 80% of folks dislike going to see the dentist and for 50% of us it keeps us from keeping those regularly scheduled appointments. [...]
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Which classroom would you prefer? This one …. or this one … In Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns (and in our interview with him), co-author Michael Horn argues (amongst other things) that student-centric classrooms are not only the way most children would prefer to learn but also the [...]
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The Supreme Court has decided to take a case of two parents who are suing Wyeth (now Pfizer) for damage they claim their child suffered as a result of a DTP vaccine. I don’t know the specifics of the case and am not going to take a side on this case because that’s not the [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Guests 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 [...]
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