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#Follow Friday – Apps 4 Children with Special Needs (A4CWSN)
A4CWSN shows you the best apps for our kids and how they work Apps 4 Children with Special Needs (A4CWSN) is a site that has recently caught my attention in an effort to work on some things with Katherine and Donovan during summer vacation. I wanted to get some apps to put on my iPad …
Electronic Record Keeping and Dropbox
Dropbox is what they call “cloud” storage. Before Medefile started with educational records, I had boxes full of records. Medical records, legal records, school records, tax records. I mourned the poor trees. But even worse than mourning the trees, I mourned any storage space I had in my home. If there was an open nook or …
Tornados and Hurricanes and Flooding! OH MY!
You can’t miss it if you turn on the TV. It seems natural disasters are everywhere these days. From Earthquakes to epic flooding to tornados to hurricanes, there are only a few disasters that actually give you time to plan. If the catastrophic disasters of Tuscaloosa, Alabama or Joplin, Missouri have any redemptive value it …
#Follow Friday – Special Education Advisor
This week since I’ve been in IEP mode and education has been the all consuming activity, I thought I’d feature the website Special Education Advisor. I think aside from working on my own blog the majority of my week has been either dealing one on one with kids or reading the Special Education Advisor and …
#Follow Friday – Sensory Processing Disorder Blogger Network
I found a really neat blog yesterday when looking around for new resources for my youngest, Donovan. Twitter actually led me to them. The SPD (Sensory Processing Disorder) Blogger Network (Twitter @spdbn) has networked a number of bloggers who write about all types of issues impacted by SPD. Whether it’s Autism, Bipolar Disorder, Non-verbal Learning …
AbilityPath.org holds Facebook Community Chat
Ability Path is an online community for parents of Special Needs children and professionals who work with them. Combining Social Networking features and expert content from a panel of educators, parents, therapists and other medical professionals, Ability Path’s mission is to build a community that brings together professionals and parents of children with special needs …
Geraldo Rivera Tonight
on the issue of waivers… the Geraldo Rivera Live on the Fox News Channel is going to be doing a show on this tonight at 10pm eastern. Sorry for the short notice but hopefully you can catch it on DVR at the very least. It promises to be a good episode with people like Chris …
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