Does your school talk to you like this?

February 15, 2011

Too funny. We have to laugh sometimes, or everything else just consumes us. That’s not good for anyone.

(Thankfully, the district in which I live has some wonderful people working there, who make us feel like valued members of the community. It’s not like that everywhere.)

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Have you bought “Your Baby Can Read”?

November 16, 2010

It’s come to my attention from a friend, classmate, and father of a child on the spectrum that the “Your Baby Can Read” program was recently exposed (challenged, to be sure) as a likely fraud. It was the subject of a segment on the Today Show about a week ago.
Here’s the clip:

Apparently this program has [...]

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Happy Veterans’ Day

November 11, 2010

Today is a day I treat much like Memorial Day, with the difference that I’m not uncomfortable about receiving greetings today. (Memorial Day is for fallen servicemembers; I’m not in that category nor have I been in harm’s way. Many others have; think of them today.

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Improve learning and retention of flashcard info

October 25, 2010

So many, many flashcards and pictures around our classroom (what the unitiated refer to as our “playroom”) fill bins and bins, sorted into ziplock bags.
This Lifehacker article suggests that using a slightly more unusual font, such as Comic Sans MS or Bodoni MT, had 14% greater retention, even at different font sizes.
One group was given [...]

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Tell us about your health insurance

September 27, 2010

Since the passage and effectiveness of New Jersey’s autism insurance bill, I have been struck by the odd circumstance of it being so difficult to figure out if you have coverage under the law.
It took a while, but I finally created a system to share information about the health insurance benefits provided by our various [...]

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