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3 ways telepractice helps combat burnout in special education

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Some of the hardest hit are students with unique needs that require services from qualified professionals, such as speech-language pathologists, sign-language interpreters, teachers for the vision and hearing impaired and special education teachers.

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Racism is a subtle, silent enemy of STEM classrooms

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With Black students not even scoring half of the overall percentage, we’ve just gotten a sign to ring the alarm on equity in science education. This thread of inequity continues through other groups of students such as English Language Learners and Students with Disabilities. We are clearly not serving our Black students.

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Presence Introduces New Therapy Platform to Enrich the Clinician Experience

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Special education caseloads in schools have continued to rise, increasing backlogs, and driving clinician burnout. The resulting platform is a combination of their expertise and 13 years of our own data on how special education providers and students engage in therapy and evaluations.”.

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SchoolStatus Selects 2024-25 Customer Advisory Board 

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Johnson has a Bachelor’s degree from Jacksonville State University in Special Education, a Master’s degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in Special Education, an Ed.S. from the University of Montevallo in Educational Leadership, and an Ed.D. from Samford University in Educational Leadership.

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Special Ed Teletherapy Provider PresenceLearning Gets a $27 Million Boost

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Speech and other special-education professionals were already in short supply even when classes were in session. PresenceLearning launched its teletherapy platform more than a decade ago in response to a shortage of licensed speech and language pathologists available in schools. They work as contractors and are paid by the hour.

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37 predictions about edtech’s impact in 2023

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With the release of the Nation’s Report Card and ongoing school staffing shortages, states and professional organizations will need to rethink the benefits of technology in supporting students in special education programs. D, SVP, Special Education – Behavior, Specialized Education Services, Inc.

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Positive Action, Inc. Enters Partnership to Distribute Content via PresenceLearning’s Therapy Platform

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. (“PAI”), the leading education and technology company for evidence-based social and emotional learning (SEL) programs, has entered a distribution partnership with PresenceLearning, Inc., the leading provider of live online therapy tools and special education related services for K-12 schools.