STEM
What is STEM? STEM Defined STEM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education. We focus on these areas together not only because the skills and knowledge in each discipline are essential for student success, but also because these fields are deeply intertwined in the real world and in how students learn most effectively. STEM is an interdisciplinary... Read More
ASSISTIVE TECHONLOGY TOOLS
(What is Assistive Technology?) There are Assistive Technology tools to help students who struggle with: Listening Certain assistive technology (AT) tools can help people who have difficulty processing and remembering spoken language. Such devices can be used in various settings (e.g., a class lecture, or a meeting with multiple speakers). Math Assistive technology (AT) tools for math are designed to help people... Read More
ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY
What is Assistive Technology? AT for kids with LD is defined as any device, piece of equipment or system that helps bypass, work around or compensate for an individual’s specific learning deficits. Over the past decade, a number of studies have demonstrated the efficacy of AT for individuals with LD. 1 AT doesn’t cure or eliminate learning difficulties, but it... Read More
BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION (Part 2)
(Behavior Modification – Part 1) A well developed behavior modification program will have a Behavior Chart to record a child’s progress with the child. Tracking a child’s good behaviors is one way to modify bad ones. Whenever a child makes it through a day (or part of a day or hour) without demonstrating the negative behavior, he/she receives a sticker... Read More
BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION (Part 1)
What is Behavior Modification? It is the term used to demonstrate the behavior change techniques to increase or decrease the frequency of behaviors, such as altering an individual’s behavior and reactions to stimuli through positive and negative enforcement of adaptive behavior and/or the reduction of behavior through its extinction, punishment and or satiation. Behavior Modification is now known as Applied... Read More
EARLY INTERVENTION (Part 2)
(For part 1 click here) Developmental Milestones Childhood is a time of tremendous growth and learning. How very exciting to be a baby…or a two-year-old… or get on a school bus for the first time. There’s so much to know! We all come into the world like small waiting sponges, ready to absorb what’s around us. Yet we’re all different,... Read More
EARLY INTERVENTION (Part 1)
What is Early Intervention? Early intervention is the process of providing services, education and support to young children who are deemed to have an established condition, those who are evaluated and deemed to have a diagnosed physical or mental condition (with a high probability of resulting in a developmental delay), an existing delay or a child who is at-risk of... Read More
COMMOM CORE CURRICULUM (part 2)
(Click here for part 1) The goal of Core Curriculum is to make sure that students are literally prepared for college and careers. There are five key components to the standard for English and Language Arts: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, Language, and Media and Technology. The goal of the mathematics standards is to achieve greater focus and coherence in... Read More
COMMON CORE CURRICULUM (part 1)
The Common Core State Standards Initiative is an educational initiative in the United States that details what K–12 students should know in English language arts and mathematics at the end of each grade. In the 1990s, the “Standards & Accountability Movement” began in the U.S. as states began writing standards outlining what students were expected to know and to be... Read More