Over the last few months, a record number of Ohio educators and licensed professionals have applied for the Certified Autism Specialist certification. The main reason for the huge surge in applications is parents are demanding teachers, licensed professionals, and even para professionals have the latest training available when dealing with their children.
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is the new name for four disorders that are actually a single condition with different levels of symptom severity in two core domains. ASD encompasses Autism Disorder, Asperger’s Disorder, Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, and Pervasive Development Disorder NOS.
It’s no secret that the Burnout Boogie Man is lurking in every professional’s office. Please tell me you remember that song by Michael Jackson, “Beat It”?? It goes something like this…
Since you have had your degree, you’ve found that the degree is no longer the distinction it once was. So ambitious teachers and ESP’s (Education Support Professionals) are looking for new ways to differentiate themselves in education. For a growing number of them, specialty certification offers one way to demonstrate a high level of knowledge. But which certification is right for you? And just how much advantage will certification really give you?
If you’re like me then you’ve probably already made some New Year’s Resolutions and posted them somewhere handy. Mine are on the bulletin board right next to my precious coffee maker! And what do you know, we are almost a week into the new year and I catch myself thinking about taking down my little sticky notes. Feeling discouraged, I have begun thinking about how in the world I’m going to accomplish these goals?
Many parents and educators approach an individualized education program (IEP) team meeting with a certain amount of caution. Parents and educators feel this way even though evidence shows that most IEP team meetings proceed rather quickly and quietly. IEP team participants may worry that some-thing will go wrong or that participants will disagree, or they may feel unprepared.
Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle says she was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome last year, according to a report in Sunday’s editions of The Observer newspaper.
THURSDAY, Dec. 5, 2013 (HealthDay News) — Children with autism can benefit from a type of therapy that helps them become more comfortable with the sounds, sights and sensations of their daily surroundings, a small new study suggests.
The headlines linking labor induction and autism risk are splashy–aren’t they always with “autism linked to” stories? My favorite misstatement of the research is in this headline from Bloomberg: “Autism risk for children may be raised when labor induced,” as though the cause-and-effect association is established and inducing labor is The Factor that leads to the risk.
