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Many Students Don’t Inform Their Colleges About Their Disability. That Needs to Change.

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I went to my eye doctor and learned I was suffering from a retinal detachment that required surgery. I knew my school could provide accommodations, such as an aid to take notes for me and record my responses for exams and counseling services, but I worried that if I accepted this support, I’d be considered weak by my peers and professors.

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Inside the unique STEM school for students with learning difficulties

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A new STEM academy for those with learning difficulties focuses on hard and soft skills. Ellis Crasnow, the director of a newly-opened high school in Los Angeles devoted to STEM-related schools to students with learning difficulties, such as autism. They do well if the learning is coming from a variety of directions.”.

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Disability as a Valuable Form of Diversity, Not a Deficit

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Typically, educational professionals focus on how to help students better access what is considered ‘typical’ learning (Ong-Dean, 2005). This is considered ‘deficit thinking,’ or thinking that defines a diagnosis by its challenges, in order to treat, fix, or minimize specific features of a student’s disability. How did we get here?

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3 ways telepractice helps combat burnout in special education

eSchool News

Leveraging the power of technology and remote learning One way to alleviate burnout in education is to harness the power of technology to provide interventions to students with disabilities.

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Racism is a subtle, silent enemy of STEM classrooms

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In fact, racism is systemically embedded into our educational institution and can be camouflaged with other issues like socioeconomic status and even the learning loss from the COVID-19 pandemic. This thread of inequity continues through other groups of students such as English Language Learners and Students with Disabilities.

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Disability as a Valuable Form of Diversity, Not a Deficit

Faculty Focus

Typically, educational professionals focus on how to help students better access what is considered ‘typical’ learning (Ong-Dean, 2005). This is considered ‘deficit thinking,’ or thinking that defines a diagnosis by its challenges, in order to treat, fix, or minimize specific features of a student’s disability. How did we get here?

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3 ways students with autism benefit from art, music and recreation

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The students can learn to identify these different elements and then attempt to replicate them with instruments. Witschey added that the students should also be learning everyday skills like how to stay active and healthy. She also uses instrument playing to teach elements of music like tempo, dynamics, pitch, tonality and mood.

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