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The IDEA Act - Miller comes through - Price, Shuler, and Watt, not so much.
Submitted by aspy on Fri, 04/20/2007 - 3:16pm.Several years ago the IDEA Act was reauthorized by the House and Senate and signed into law. It's goals were laudable:
America's schools educate over 6 million children with disabilities. In the past, those students were too often just shuffled through the system with little expectation that they could make significant progress or succeed like their fellow classmates. Children with disabilities deserve high hopes, high expectations, and extra help.
In the bill I sign today, we're raising expectations for the students. We're giving schools and parents the tools they need to meet them...this law ensures that students with disabilities will have special education teachers with the skills and training to teach special education and their subject area.
One person's autism.
Submitted by aspy on Sun, 02/25/2007 - 4:06pm.Hi,
I followed a link in the Mrs. Anglico diary and found this story about autism. There are several short videos in the article that are worth watching, I can't figure out how to link directly to the video, I can find it but not link to it. But, you can read the article and click on the video links within. The YouTube video they talk about is below, but let me warn you that the "translation" does not come until about halfway through the video, so you have to be patient.
I think an important thing for the public to keep in mind is this, If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism. If this video opens your eyes to a different meaning of autism, that is great, but don't make the mistake of thinking she is representative of "autism", since there really is no such thing.
