Planning for your first IEP

By Rick Colosimo / October 30, 2009 / Comments Off on Planning for your first IEP

What advice do you need to help you think about your child’s first IEP? This guide gives you some principles and tips to help you think about how to plan for your first IEP.

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Special event honoring Catherine Maurice

By Rick Colosimo / October 27, 2009 /

Every parent of a child on the spectrum knows the name Catherine Maurice. Her book, “Let Me Hear Your Voice,” is a literary landmark in the field that has touched almost every parent I know. In a rare public appearance made even more rare because it’s parent-driven, Catherine Maurice will be honored by REED Academy…

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Project: “Open-source” school for autistic children

By Rick Colosimo / October 13, 2009 / Comments Off on Project: “Open-source” school for autistic children

I refer to this as 30seats.com, wth a focusing on creating one classroom at a time to serve our entire community of new children with ASDs. Mission: A program that would collect, create, and curate tools, information, and content to address the physical, program, and regulatory requirements to found a school-centered program for children with…

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News: Teacher attempts to poison special ed student

By Rick Colosimo / October 11, 2009 / Comments Off on News: Teacher attempts to poison special ed student

This  article from Indiana describes one of the more crazy things that I have read about special education teachers. For those who are interested, I would probably define this as attempted murder. It’s absolutely reckless behavior that is so depraved as to lead me to believe that she deserves that level of punishment. 1. She…

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