Review by Caitlin O’Donnell, Special Educator & Hunter College Graduate Student. The Wrightslaw website is a single source containing multiple resources. It is geared towards parents, educational professionals, and legal professionals such as lawyers and advocates, by providing information based on the laws surrounding special education and information on specific disabilities, including Autism Spectrum Disorders […]
“AutismWeb: A Parent’s Guide to Autism Spectrum Disorder” Website link: http://www.autismweb.com/index.htm Reviewed By: Anna Chan, Special Educator & graduate student at Hunter College This website is very user-friendly and informative. For any parent of a newly diagnosed child who has little prior knowledge about ASDs, this website will help provide a wealth of knowledge that […]
During the opening week of the United Nations 67th General Assembly, on the 27th of September, Autism Speaks will host its 5th Annual World Focus on Autism. This is exciting for all of us at Hunter becuase it will be held at Hunter College’s Roosevelt House and many of us who are part of the Hunter Autism […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ghana hosts first Autism summit to mark World Autism Day The first ever autism conference in a western African country will be held in Accra, Ghana- April 2011: The Global Autism Project, in association with Teachers Without Borders and the Awareness, Care and Training Centre (AACT), will be hosting the first West African autism conference in Accra, Ghana […]
When was the last time you clapped your hands? Really when? You walk into your favourite shop pick out a pair of shoes and as you go to pay, the sales assistant tells you there’s an extra 50% off. Do you clap! and say, “wow that’s great!” and jump for joy? You may verbally acknowledge […]
Children are the best assessors of their teachers! It’s a fact. Ask the children and they will tell you who is fun, whose lessons they love, and who they really don’t like. The same goes for graduate students! So why in academia are we judged merely by the number of peer reviewed journals we publish? […]