There are lots of tax deductions that you can get for medical expenses including….. Guide Dogs or Other Service Animals Medical Conferences Therapy Transportation expenses related to medical care (.24 cents per mile) Special Education Expenses Tutoring Specialty school tuition I’m not an accountant or tax attorney, etc. but the deductions (if you haven’t already [...]
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Found this article this morning and thought it was pretty interesting : 1. Don’t try to get anything past us. Prescriptions for painkillers or sleeping aids always get extra scrutiny. 2. We’re not serving fries in here. I’d think twice about using a drive-through pharmacy. Working there distracts us-not a good thing when it comes [...]
We drew our 1st fan for our 1st Autism Awareness Month giveaway to give away our 1st Wrightslaw Special Education Law & Advocacy Training Series – Understanding Your Child’s Test Scores WebEx CD (whew, lots of 1st in that sentence) and the winner is …….
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 …….
I just wanted to take a moment to thank all of you reading and following this blog and the radio show. March was a great month for us. The Website blew up it’s records for best single day, week and month for visitors. The audience has been growing steadily but March was a month that [...]
An eight year old with dyslexia goes to school day after day and gets bullied. Bullying classmates call him stupid, dumb, pick on him …. you know the drill. One day they pull down his pants in public. Eight year old has had enough and jumps out the window of the second floor.
We talk a lot about educational reform on this blog …. this isn’t what we mean. Illinois State House Backs Four Day School Weeks This idea is so catastrophically stupid that the fact that a politician would come up with the idea …. much less approve it with a vote of 81-21 stuns me. I’m [...]
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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This one makes me furious! The idiots in the Polk county Florida school district came up with an idea to use part of their special education IDEA money on the purchase of IPOD Nano’s to be given away to special education parents who filled out a survey. The point of the survey was to evaluate [...]
Some great ideas from this article on TeacherHub on how to use the Olympics as a learning opportunity. Many of them are also great ways to get your kids more interested in and excited about following the Olympics. My favorite idea … the Olympics pool / fantasy team. The target is classroom teachers but there’s [...]
We had the great honor on October 25th of last year to interview Peter Wright from Wrightslaw. Pete is a pioneer in the area of Special Education Law and truly one of the ultimate child advocates in this country. We had the joy of being able to host a Wrightslaw conference in 2008 and were [...]
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You Missed A Show? Missed a show? How could you? Okay, besides you have a family and the show is on early Sunday mornings. Then here’s your chance to catch up. I’ll be posting full breakouts of all the shows we did in 2009 but in the meantime check out any of the shows that [...]
On Nov. 8th we had the honor of speaking with educational expert, John Taylor Gatto, about the current state of the American educational system. Some startling (and scary) educational statistics to consider…… 1 in 5 American Children Drops Out Of High School Some schools the graduation rate is only 50% ….. or worse. Some a whole [...]
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On the “My Great Kid” Radio show we had a great interview with Leslie Poston, social media expert and co-author of “Twitter For Dummies”. Leslie not only shared a lot with us about Twitter but also a ton about “social media” in general and what it means both for us as parents but also for [...]
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This Sunday, on the “My Great Kid Radio Show” we will be speaking with Leslie Poston, co-author of “Twitter For Dummies and all-around Social Media expert & tech junkie. Find out more about Leslie here ….. Leslie’s Blog Leslie Poston (geechee_girl) on Twitter Leslie Poston – FriendFeed geechee_girl’s Bookmarks on Delicious (What’s she reading) Uptown [...]
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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 [...]
