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Parent Perspectives in Special Education: 8/25/13 - 9/1/13
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Parent Perspectives in Special Education. Monday, August 26, 2013. The Intersection of Hope and Fear. Of all the annual events in the lives of families, probably the one that elicits the biggest release of nervous energy is going back to school day. I can think of no other event that happens on a yearly basis where hope and fear are so juxtaposed. What will you find? Will you find a shortcut to India and the Far East? Or will you wind up somewhere else, on some new land that you did not know existed?
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Parent Perspectives in Special Education: 3/31/13 - 4/7/13
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Parent Perspectives in Special Education. Monday, April 1, 2013. Several things have happened over the past month or so that kind of tickled the need for this particular post. I was working in a district with some professionals who really have not had much experience with children with disabilities, but who very much want to learn. The conversation progressed, and eventually arrived at a time when I had to leave and move on to my next stop on that trip. It is a good look at some of the conflicts between ...
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Parent Perspectives in Special Education: 10/14/12 - 10/21/12
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Parent Perspectives in Special Education. Wednesday, October 17, 2012. 8216;Hell is empty, and all the devils are here’. William Shakespeare, The Tempest. Act I, Scene III. 8216;Be not afraid of greatness:. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them’. William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night. Act II, Scene V. Two of William Shakespeare’s most popular comedies are Twelfth Night. They have seen a resurgence in the last decade. At times, in our initial despair, we do b...
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Parent Perspectives in Special Education: 12/15/13 - 12/22/13
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Parent Perspectives in Special Education. Monday, December 16, 2013. In 1935 Erwin Schrodinger proposed a paradox that he used to illustrate a quantum mechanics point concerning the nature of wave particles. In the paradox, a cat is placed in a steel box. Also in the box is a Geiger counter, a vial of poison, a radioactive material, and a hammer. Since the radioactive decay involved would be a random process, it is not possible to predict when the poison would be released, killing the cat. The child is m...
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Parent Perspectives in Special Education: 3/10/13 - 3/17/13
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Parent Perspectives in Special Education. Friday, March 15, 2013. Knowing What You Don't Know. One of the most important things for a parent or a professional to know is what he or she does not know. This can also be one of the hardest things for a person to understand. For all of us, be you a parent, teacher, administrator, or other professional, it can sometimes be hard to admit that you don’t know something. Yet to do so can often be the best thing you can do to help a child with a disability. A paren...
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Parent Perspectives in Special Education: The Intersection of Hope and Fear
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Parent Perspectives in Special Education. Monday, August 26, 2013. The Intersection of Hope and Fear. Of all the annual events in the lives of families, probably the one that elicits the biggest release of nervous energy is going back to school day. I can think of no other event that happens on a yearly basis where hope and fear are so juxtaposed. What will you find? Will you find a shortcut to India and the Far East? Or will you wind up somewhere else, on some new land that you did not know existed?
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Parent Perspectives in Special Education: 12/30/12 - 1/6/13
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Parent Perspectives in Special Education. Tuesday, January 1, 2013. It does not seem like it was that long ago that I remember walking into our son’s bedroom on Christmas Eve to see something that I had never seen before. Ian was sound asleep, and signing. Santa and reindeer on were on the roof – he could feel the house shake! Gifts, gifts, gifts. The reindeer had found the reindeer food we put in the yard (dog food)! We stood and watched for about 3 or 4 minutes as Ian dreamed, and signed as he slept.
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Parent Perspectives in Special Education: 2/3/13 - 2/10/13
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Parent Perspectives in Special Education. Tuesday, February 5, 2013. Antelope With Night Vision Goggles. The other day Ian and I were watching TV, and that commercial for a particular cruise line came on. You might know the one – it starts with a woman standing on the deck of a ship, looking out to sea and saying, “Never again”. Then it flashes back to a scene of her and her husband sitting in a car screaming as it is being shaken by a grizzly bear on one side and a mountain lion on the other. This year ...
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Parent Perspectives in Special Education: 9/23/12 - 9/30/12
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Parent Perspectives in Special Education. Wednesday, September 26, 2012. Ian was born in Virginia, and that was our home until he was 11. Not long after his birth, we were contacted by the early intervention program for our home county. In Virginia at the time, the early steps programs were run through the state health department, with county offices. After an initial evaluation, Ian was assigned 3 service providers. For many families, ours included, there aren’t many people who really had an idea ...
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Parent Perspectives in Special Education: 11/25/12 - 12/2/12
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Parent Perspectives in Special Education. Monday, November 26, 2012. It is sad, really. Currently, our family’s life is pretty normal. No big issues or concerns outside the normal ones that most families have. No looming disasters on the horizon other than the normal storms that every family has to navigate around. Yet, here I sit, waiting for the ‘other shoe’ to drop. You see, in a family with a child with special needs, periods of normalcy are almost scary. These times just do not happen. We spend so m...
