Blogged From Kristina Chew, PhD at 05. Apr 2007 02:31 under Asperger's Syndrome, Health, Diagnosis, Safety, ASD, Aspergers, autism, diagnosis, doctors, Education, health, medicine, PDD NOS, school, special needs
The title of an article about detecting and diagnosis autism early in young children in today’s Albert Lea Tribune almost makes it sound as if all parents better have their children “checked” for autism as if it is a common disorder of childhood: Get Your Child Checked For Autism Disorder I guess this is the fruit of [...]
http://feeds.b5media.com/~r/b5media/AutismVox/~3/106716694/
Blogged From Kristina Chew, PhD at 04. Apr 2007 21:19 under Treatment, Animals, Sensory, ASD, Aspergers, autism, cerebral palsy, children, Education, family, health, horse, parenting, PDD NOS, school, therapy
Yes, rocking horse therapy—-I guess one might refer to this as “indoor hippotherapy,” on a specially designed, giant-size (5 by 6 feet) horse (able to hold a Texas state representative……). As reported in today’s Shreveport Times, the Texas Executive Rocking Horse creations are being used in a physical therapy program for disabled children in a [...]
http://feeds.b5media.com/~r/b5media/AutismVox/~3/106657619/
Blogged From at 04. Apr 2007 21:19 under Object, Object, Object, Object
Via The Mountain Goat Report, we learn that Idaho Falls schools are engaging in humiliation tactics to get Junior High kids to pay off lunch bills: TWIN FALLS - Students who fell behind on school lunch payments were stunned Monday afternoon when their lunch trays were taken from them and dumped in the garbage.Cafeteria workers then gave them a sack lunch and two words of advice - pay up.The Twin Falls School District refused to serve hot lunch to more than 150 students at Vera C. O'Leary Junior High School on Monday because they were not paying for their school lunches. Cafeteria workers threw out the students' hot meals and replaced them with sack lunches while charging them full-price for a hot lunch. District officials say the purpose of the brown-bag lun[...]
http://f-words.blogspot.com/2007/04/jr-high-kids-marked-with-scarlet-p.html
Blogged From rightwingprof at 04. Apr 2007 18:33 under Conservatism, Education
Okay, this is bad enough: NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) — Five fifth-grade students face criminal charges after authorities said four of them had sex in front of other students in an unsupervised classroom and kept a classmate posted as a lookout for teachers. The students were arrested Tuesday at the Spearsville school in rural north Louisiana, authorities [...]
http://rightwingnation.com/index.php/2007/04/04/3160/
Blogged From rightwingprof at 04. Apr 2007 16:14 under Education
Carnival of Education is up!
http://rightwingnation.com/index.php/2007/04/04/3158/
Blogged From Evan Coyne Maloney at 04. Apr 2007 14:59 under All Posts, World Affairs, Israel/Palestine, Society & Culture, Middle East, Higher Education, Education, Political Correctness
Just last year, Yale University was engaged in what it portrayed as a valiant fight against discrimination. You see, the school wanted to receive federal tax dollars, but it did not want the federal government’s military recruiters to have the same access to graduating students that private companies have. Their rationale was that the “Don’t Ask, [...]
http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2007/04/04/its-only-discrimination-if-the-us-does-it
Blogged From Kristina Chew, PhD at 04. Apr 2007 14:37 under Family, History, Books, Parenting, Health, China, Autism Lit, Africa, Medicine, Asia, africa, anthropology, ASD, Asia, Aspergers, autism, children, Education, epidemic, family, global, health, parenting, PDD NOS, school, world
Autism is everywhere—–by which I do not mean that, this being April and therefore Autism Awareness Month, we are hearing about autism—what it is and what to do about it—-everytime one turns around, gets on the internet, watches a popular TV show. By “autism is everywhere,” I mean that autism is a global phenomenon. [...]
http://feeds.b5media.com/~r/b5media/AutismVox/~3/106566249/
Blogged From at 04. Apr 2007 12:23 under Object, Object, Object
This NYT article about ambitious girls is a few days old, but it's hanging around at the top of the "most emailed" list, so let's look at it now.Esther and Colby are two of the amazing girls at Newton North High School here in this affluent suburb just outside Boston. “Amazing girls� translation: Girls by the dozen who are high achieving, ambitious and confident (if not immune to the usual adolescent insecurities and meltdowns.) Girls who do everything: Varsity sports. Student government. Theater. Community service. Girls who have grown up learning they can do anything a boy can do, which is anything they want to do.But being an amazing girl often doesn’t feel like enough these days when you’re competing with all the other amazing girls around the co[...]
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2007/04/when-everyone-tries-to-be-amazing.html
Blogged From Pamela Leavey at 04. Apr 2007 08:10 under In The News, Republicans, Bush/Bush Admin, Education, Karl Rove, In The Blogosphere, Politics
A group of college students at American University gave Karl Rove a send off tonight that he might have preferred not to have received: Rove was on the campus to talk to the College Republicans, but when he got outside more than a dozen students began throwing things at him and at his car, an [...]
http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=5577
Blogged From at 04. Apr 2007 05:11 under Object, Object, Object, Object
Via Technorati, which is quickly becoming one of my favorite places to hang out, I see that plenty of people are tagging their YouTube submissions with "invasive species." Some of these videos are quite entertaining: From rienchien, a video of a brown anole lizard and a gecko. Both in Florida, both non-native there, and one eating the other! Awesome! (Not safe for the squeamish) LeafMaker put together a five minute educational video about Japanese knotweed in the Great Lakes region of the US. It's a little trippy with the music and roadside driving and all, and I love the title fonts he uses. The video is actually pretty good, though at one point he does stand next to already-past-flowering stalks of knotweed and claim that they are about to burst ito flower[...]
http://invasivespecies.blogspot.com/2007/04/fun-with-youtube.html