Monthly Archives: July 2010
Do any of the children on Jon and Kate Plus 8 have physical or mental disabilities?
I have just started watching the show, and really enjoy how honest the parents are about their experiences. I haven’t been watching for long enough to know much about the individual children, but one or two of them have facial features that resemble children with Downs Syndrome. Is this coincidence or do any [...]
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Kaleidoscope : Exploring the Experience of Disability Throug
Product DescriptionExplores the experience of disability through literature and the fine arts.
Kaleidoscope : Exploring the Experience of Disability Throug
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Orlando Bloom on Having Dyslexia
At the 2010 Adam Jeffrey Katz Memorial Lecture Series.
Vaccine-Autism Study Is Withdrawn
This is the VOA Special English Health Report, from voaspecialenglish.com The Lancet, a leading British medical journal, has withdrawn a study that scared many parents and angered many experts. The study, published twelve years ago, suggested a link between autism and the vaccine against mumps, measles and rubella. A British doctor led that study. Andrew [...]
“How about funding special education”
Now, there’s an idea! Hillary on Education, Iowa Debate Dec. 2007.
Social Work Skills Demonstrated: Beginning Direct Practice CD-ROM, Text-Workbook and Website
Product DescriptionThe second edition of this widely popular CD-ROM with manual can be used to either teach or to review essential social work skills using the latest technology available.Designed as a practical guide to teaching basic counseling skills, the CD-ROM contains video segments demonstrating four different, culturally diverse social worker-client interactions. Students can view the [...]
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Does anyone have advice for an 18 year old with aspergers syndrome?
My son is 18 and has aspergers syndrome. He has no friends and has suffered years of being teased. He is very smart but fails all his classes. High School has been torture for him. He wants to go to college but is afraid he will fail at that too. [...]
Warren’s Garafola earns recognition for her work as school principal of Horizon High School
Warren’s Garafola earns recognition for her work as school principal of Horizon High School
WARREN TWP. – Township Committeewoman Carolann Garafola, who is the principal of Horizon High School, Livingston, operated by Cerebral Palsy of New Jersey, received the first Distinguished Leader Award for Public School Principal in June from The New Jersey Council for Administrators [...]
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Children with Disabilities
Product DescriptionOne of our bestsellers, “Children with Disabilities” is a fully illustrated, comprehensive disability resource. It covers developmental, clinical, educational, family, and intervention issues for children. The first edition of this volume was published more than 25 years ago, and subsequent editions have steadily grown in comprehensiveness and complexity. The sixth edition updates existing content, [...]
Nordea Riga Marathon 2010: Unity Kilometer