Roving Office Hours @ Glen Rock NJ

By Rick Colosimo / August 4, 2009 / Comments Off on Roving Office Hours @ Glen Rock NJ

I’ll be at the Starbucks in Glen Rock NJ for Roving Office Hours on Tuesday, August 11. Glen Rock 224 Rock Road Glen Rock, New Jersey 07452 201-493-8261

Roving Office Hours @ Clifton NJ

By Rick Colosimo / August 4, 2009 / Comments Off on Roving Office Hours @ Clifton NJ

I’ll be at the Starbucks in Clifton NJ on Route 3 West for Roving Office Hours on Monday, August 10. Clifton Route 3 360 Route 3 West Clifton, NJ 07014 973 473-2560

Avoiding classification doesn’t help your child

By Rick Colosimo / August 3, 2009 / Comments Off on Avoiding classification doesn’t help your child

I just saw this quote in a recent article: “We don’t want to identify kids as disabled,” Charla MacKenzie, director of pupil personnel services for Southwest Licking Local Schools, said “To us, that’s a very big thing.” “It’s only when we’ve exhausted all those suggestions, all those interventions, and we still don’t see progress that…

IEP goals about discipline or restraints?

By Rick Colosimo / August 3, 2009 /

Here’s another article describing seemingly vague rules about restraints and seclusion, an issue that seems to be growing in importance in recent months. Here is a single excerpt from the COPAA letter: A 9 year old boy with autism in Tennessee was restrained face-down in his school’s isolation room for four hours. The complaint alleges…