Students with disabilities are not exempt from testing including standardized tests. This is good because we want our students to be held to the highest of standards as well and be able to compete with their non disabled peers. Join us in a discussion about assessment and accountability, particularly as it [...]
Students with disabilities are not exempt from testing including standardized tests. This is good because we want our students to be held to the highest of standards as well and be able to compete with their non disabled peers. Join us in a discussion about assessment and accountability, particularly as it [...]
Kids have mental health needs and many get the help they need from mental health professionals in schools. We start a series of conversations with two leading psychologists from the National Association of School Psychologists – Dr. Eric Rossen, Director of Professional Development and Standards, and Dr. Kelly Vaillancourt Strobach, Director of [...]
We visit the Miracle League of Montgomery County, MD at their season closing game. Held at the Germantown Soccer Plex on an adaptive baseball field hosts baseball games for children of all abilities on Saturdays during the Spring. Funded and run by the Kiwanis Club of Bethesda, the Miracle League brings our [...]
We are joined by Kay Bransford, President and Chief Curator at Memory Banc, a company that helps families organize important documents and family memories when loved ones are no longer able to do so. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reports that at least 70% of Americans turning 65 [...]
A discussion about the use of school suspensions with Daniel Losen, Director of the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the Civil Rights Project at UCLA.
We talk with Brewster Thackery, Executive Director of the Endependence Center of Northern VA http://www.ecnv.org/ about its mission, and how it enhances the lives of people with disabilities. Also, we explore what is the independent living movement and what parents and others who care about people with disabilities need to know [...]
When you are a parent of a child with disability, you are forced to try new things. So let’s try Drum Therapy. Pat Gesualdo is an award winning drummer, author and educator and pioneer of Drum Therapy. Join us to learn what Drum Therapy is and how it can help your child. Also joining [...]
As we know raising children is expensive, let alone children with disabilities. Mark Friese, Vice President of the Special Needs Group at Merrill Lynch join us to discuss how to find financial gold in ways you may not have considered.