Special Education Teacher Blogs

I am excited that my blog has been nominated for The Most Fascinating Blog in 2012, Category: Special Education Teacher Blogs. My thanks to all the teacher candidates from Hunter who added their insightful comments and to those who nominated the blog. Please click here to vote.

Bringing guided relaxation into the KG classroom

A special commentary by Maddy Wyman As a teacher feeling stressed or overworked can become an everyday feeling. We all feel the pressure to fit in every little workshop and have our own agenda. I am currently finishing up my third year teaching and can admit that I have felt burnt out well over a […]

Teaching what we need to learn

Children with ASD sometimes have difficulty reading the clues to be able to figure out how the other person is feeling. What is equally important is identifying how they are feeling. We have thousands of thoughts a day and those thoughts can and do affect how we feel. When working with children with ASD we […]

Can the internet be your virtual internet consultant?

Each semester at Hunter College, the ECSPEDE graduate students from my Autism class are asked to look at internet resources for families of young children with Autism. If you type Autism Spectrum Disorders into google you will get two million hits, but if you type in Autism you get close to 75 million hits. The […]