We are very proud to announce our guest for Tuesday May 15 at noon EST — Dr. Lucy Jane Miller, Ph.D, OTR, Founder and Director of the Sensory Processing Disorder Foundation. Dr. Miller is the founder of the first comprehensive Sensory Processing Disorder research program nationwide and author of [...]
Today on the Mary & Melissa Show – airing live at noon EST on BlogTalk Radio – is a continued conversation on the removal of special education coordinators (SEC’s) from DC public schools and transferring their responsibilities to school psychologists. Last week, Dr Nathaniel Beers, Chief of the Office [...]
Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA) speaks about his introduction on Friday April 27 of the AUTISM Educators Act to establish a pilot program to train teachers who work with children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Also joining us is parent advocate and Arlington, VA resident Alex Arriaga who is [...]
Listen to the Mary & Melissa Show Today April 24 at Noon EST. District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) has proposed to eliminate Special Education Coordinators and have their responsibilities assumed by School Psychologists. This is a change – proposed to commence in the upcoming school year – that [...]
Tomorrow DC City Council will vote on the proposed budget changes for our public schools. This includes the controversial removal of Special Education Coordinators and having their responsibilities transferred to School Psychologists. Join us as we recap what we know and especially what we still don’t know about this very [...]
Starting in the 2012 school year, DC public schools will eliminate the position of Special Education Coordinator in schools and instead will transfer those job responsibilities to school psychologists. The District of Columbia Association of School Psychologists representatives Kirsten Myers Denning, School Psycholgoist, and Monica Arce, Special Education Coordinator join [...]
Mary and Melissa discuss the latest response from the Office of the DC Mayor regarding the reprogramming of millions of dollars of DC special education money. Also, join us to hear some new tips from parents on good local area places for kids with special kids.
Join us today as we speak with Washington Teacher Union President Nathan Saunders about DC Public Schools (DCPS) elimination of the position of special ed coordinators. The job is to be turned over to school pyschologists. Is this good or bad? Today, we will also address the cuts in funding of [...]
Have you ever felt that you are out on your own dealing with the challenges of raising your special child. When you have an IEP — is that all you need. Can you then schedule that spa day? Probably not. Join us and gripe about the lack of holistic approaches [...]
Join us today as we discuss how to advocate and how to hold “the powers that be” accountable. We also have a guest who is a special education teacher who will speak to us about how to advocate to teachers. Join us to discuss the reprogramming of special education funds [...]