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JULY 2006

* Healing horses giving help to handicapped kids
Children able to gain confidence, physical strength through program

* Online science and math courses in Spanish may aid immigrants

* Love Complicates Life Even for the Autistic
Autistic Man Practices Art of Dating

* Lifting The Curtain On How Ritalin Packs Its 1-2 Punch

* Children's trouble processing information can disrupt lives

* Older Students Who Need Basics Pose Challenge
Systems Use Special Programs to Help Immigrants With Little Education in Their Native Countries

* Educating gifted students

* School districts turn to paid readers for grading student essays

* Music therapy helps develop communication and motor skills

* 'Academic Redshirting' Is Getting a Mixed Report Card
The popular practice of delaying schooling is not necessarily helpful, researchers say

JUNE 2006

* Mainstream schools can't manage special needs pupils, say teachers
Union calls for an end to the policy of inclusion after a study suggests that it harms all children

* As Babies Are Born Earlier, They Risk Problems Later

* ADHD in girls overlooked

* Is tech injuring children?

* Immigrant children lag behind in European schools

* Gifted and Tormented
Academic Stars Often Bullied -- and More Likely to Suffer Emotionally as a Result

* Dropout Data Raise Questions on 2 Fronts
One Side Says Problem Isn't as Dire as Thought, but Others Doubt Research

* From a Poet's Failing Sight, a Novel 'Seeing Machine' Emerges

* Hang It Up

* Schools, students match wits over Web access

* Seeing college in the future
At fair, focus is on special ed

* Teacher putting down her pen after 69 years

* Can Computers Help Schools?

MAY 2006

*Policy fails special-needs students

*Disabled girl wins right to compete
Howard County must include wheelchair user, judge declares

*Teenager in a Wheelchair Reaches a Racing Milestone
Paralympic Athlete Competes Alongside Runners at Track Meet

*Extra 1,500 teachers employed to help special needs pupils

*New York Offers Housing Subsidy as Teacher Lure

*MPS aims to provide free Web access
Students, staff would get in-home wireless Internet

*S. Florida educators use latest technology in the classroom

*Tooth Fillings With Mercury Are Held Safe

APRIL 2006

*California Seeks Teachers in Philippines to Fill Gap

*Patriotism lessons for Japan's schools

*Tech helps teach complex reading skills

*Early help for the special child

*Solo Viewing, Bad EndingsWatching Violent TV May Cost Kids Friends

*Rare Opportunity for Hearing-Impaired Children As School Opens UN Integrated Regional
Information Networks

*'Sesame Street' sparks controversy over videos for infants

*How 4 people turned learning disabilities into stories of success, fortune and happiness

MARCH 2006

*Not quite mainstream

*Inclusion debate treads new ground
Are ministers pulling back from their resolve to educate all pupils in the mainstream?

*Bush says math, science economic tools

*A truce of sorts in WASL battle
Polarized groups agree to two-year study of assessment test

*Device brings high-tech to disabled students
EagleEyes: The system translates subtle head and eye movements into mouse-style
commands

*Study: 'Power Users' drive pedagogy Research suggests tech-savvy students are having an
impact in the classroom

*Class division
A plan to help poor achievers has gifted students worried

*Schools forced to focus on ADHD
Parents and educators are debating the best way to teach a growing number of children who
have been diagnosed with an elusive brain disorder

*The Cries of a Crisis

*Helping the new, poor and disabled in college
STEP gives 50 at S. Mtn. help with aid, tutoring, more

*Student demand for AP classes jumps Enrollment in Advanced Placement courses jumped in
high schools this year, especially at low-performing schools


FEBRUARY 2006

*Musically trained children process language better

*Handshakes with the past

*Schools want male teachers

*State assessments show boys lagging in literacy

*Disabilities can result in steeper learning curve for some

*Drawing Out Autism
Using brain imaging and advanced genetic tools, a new MIT collaboration is trying to show how genes
could mold the autistic.

*TAKS welcomes three new additions to the family
Tests are state's attempt to satisfy federal special-ed requirements

*Math gap grows for minority students
Difference in WASL scores shows significant jump at seventh grade

*DPS maps plan to 'fix' district
Language curriculum one of several issues school chief will address

*The special squad

*Schools look abroad to find needed teachers
Practice Expected To Grow Nationwide As Districts Struggle To Fill Openings

*Sending classrooms video digitally

*School board to end 'zero tolerance'

JANUARY 2006

*Athlete With Down's Syndrome Scores 99-Yard Touchdown

*Coach Arranges Play For Special Athlete

*Teachers to get legal right to restrain pupils

*Online phys ed takes hold in Minneapolis

*Honors for a Principal Whose Impact Extends Even to the Cafeteria
Head of Fairfax School Wins National Award

*Overworked doc turns to the Web

*Genetic Cause of Speech Defect Discovered

*Keep on keeping up

*Speaker allows deaf to feel music

*Kim Thomas discusses the impact of paperless technologies on the classroom

*Ritalin Patch Awaiting Approval

*High-schoolers logging on for gym class

*Mayo Clinic researchers find math learning disorder is common

*The Age of Autism: The Amish Elephant

*Researchers May Have Discovered Dyslexia Gene

*Texting teenagers are proving 'more literate than ever before'

*Signs of literacy
Classes in three languages help deaf children learn to read

*Arundel School Closes Achievement Gap
At North Glen, Black Students Outperform Whites in Many Areas

*Google restarts online books plan

*Mystery of "Blindsight" Lets Some Blind People "See," Study Shows

*Students to Evaluate Teachers

*Autism nothing more than an extreme form of male brain development

*Alberta planning law to allow fetus to sue mom

*Touch-screen terminals coming to all Minnesota polling places

*Normal noise often painful to autistic kids, study finds

DECEMBER 2005

*Schools forced to update seldom-used showers

*Lazy kids may have learning disability

*Pills 'are not best way to treat child depression'

*Cadets help kids write with stylus

*FDA Issues Alert on ADHD Drug Strattera

*Bilingual preschool programs expand

*Study: Ex-military often make better teachers

*Turn On, Tune Out, Get Well?
Researchers Test Video Games' Potential to Speed Kids' Healing

*How young is too young?

*Disabled kids 'written off' in ex-East Bloc

*'No Child' Closes the Gap
Harder for Special Needs, Low-Income Students to be Left Behind

*More kids may get to learn in 2 languages

*Special ed seniors now must pass exit exam

*Just Don't Do It!
Are we teaching our kids way too much about sex? Or not nearly enough?

*Special needs 'under-resourced'
Around half of head teachers believe some of their special needs pupils should be taught
in special schools, a poll suggests

*A fifth of Seattle sophomores to become freshmen

*Study: Overzealous filters hinder research

*'Virtual cafeteria' teaches good eating habits

*Companies Are Offering Assistance To Parents of Kids with Disabilities

*Engineering gains a younger following High Schools offer hands-on classes

*Mum, my cereal's talking!

*School Segregation Is Back With 'Vengeance,' Author Says

*A to F Scale Gets Poor Marks but Is Likely to Stay
Universal Use Limits Change, Experts Say

*The whole school included
Special needs should be central, not an appendage, says Meinir Rees

*Scientists dismiss evidence of MMR link with autism


NOVEMBER 2005

*'I love being alone on the water'

*Writing helping young Katrina survivors

*Storm's Many Lessons Reach the Classroom
Hurricane a Hot Topic in Area Schools

*New Support For Disabled Research Students

*Poor scores for urban schools
Jonathan Kozol finds segregation persists, shortchanging kids

*Inconsistent Effort May Be Sign of Attention Disorder in Adults and Children

*Black-only school proposed
Race-based classes touted for teens
New equity boss says it could work

*New tests urged for schoolchildren
Special education students need individual assessment, critics say

*New policy on autistic kids criticized

*Miami-Dade schools may split genders
County may follow Central Florida school's single-gender class experiment

*Opposition grows to mental-health screening by schools

*Boy Brains, Girl Brains
Are separate classrooms the best way to teach kids?

*Stammering 'best treated early'

*Video games that get kids' attention, enhance learning
Children put on helmets linked to sensors that monitor their brain

*A Team Effort Helps Deaf Students Succeed at School
Parents Lead the Push for More Services

OCTOBER 2005

*Experts offer homework help online

*The Eyes Have It

*Saying It With Feeling
New Technology Lets Deaf, Hearing People Enjoy Richer Conversations

*The Chalkboard's Energetic New Cousin Interactive Screens Reshaping Lessons

*An Unexpected Reprieve
Thanks to new treatments, people with cystic fibrosis now have
adulthoods they could never have imagined

*Study: Daily routine helps bipolar disorder

*Anger as experts claim dyslexia is a myth

*New tool aims to ease academic file sharing

*Students tackle math via fantasy football

*Computer simulation is 'making history'

*Simulation-style video game targets education field

*Gizmoz do not a Hemingway or a Copernicus make

SEPTEMBER 2005

*Group builds nationwide playground network to serve disabled

*Tribune Profile: Marca Bristo, Champion for rights of disabled

*New UW study documents autistic regression

*Report on Risks of Ritalin Prompts a Federal Study

*Cruise's aversion to antidepressants at odds with scientific evidence

*Software a sight for sore eyes

*The power of music: Therapy opens up new world for developmentally disabled children

*Hearing Aids for the Unimpaired

*Online ‘gizmos’ keep mind in shape for school

*Jim Donahue and Brooke Lee: Trying to fix special education

*A conversation with Rudy Crew

*An Innovative Technology for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders

*Case Study: An Innovative Technology for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders

*Park Record: Are immunizations safe?

*The Art of Autism

*A Drug for Autism

*20 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have

AUGUST 2005

*When two plus two equals April

*The ABCs of Stuttering: New DVD for Parents and Teachers
Give your child’s teacher a copy on the first day of school

*Tears before bedtime

*Girls' autism 'under-diagnosed'

*'Gene test' for autism in sight

*Groups argue vaccine, autism link

*Very Premature Babies found At Risk For Disability

*'Smart cards' to reward well-behaved teenagers

*Special education teacher uses acting, drama background to teach children

*Blind campers have fun, learn

*'Each of our children is different'

*Video games have therapeutic potential - expert

JULY 2005

*Crickets offer hope to deaf

*Braille, Computers And Paws
Blind Valedictorian Has The World At Her Fingertips

*On Autism's Cause, It's Parents vs. Research

*To Vaccinate or Not? Sorting Out the Confusion Over Meningitis Shots

*Special education helps all students

*New computer software for people with learning disabilities to be unveiled at open morning

*Taught at Home, but Seeking to Join Activities at Public Schools

*Learning By Acting
Camp helps kids with disorders add to skills

*Video game helps combat ADHD
Interactive program boosts reading: Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder's worst enemy: Dance Dance Revolution

JUNE 2005

*Writing, drawing help dyslexic kids read

*Modern Life Can Be Tough for ADHD Parents

*Social worker describes her approach to special education

*Shortage of Teachers foces Global Search