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It's easy to dismiss what transpires in the nation's largest school district as an aberration because of its sheer size. But I believe that the latest remarks by Mayor Michael Bloomberg happen to have relevance to districts across the U.S. For the second time in a year, he suggested that some parents don't understand the value of education ("Mayor Michael Bloomberg says many parents don't know or don't care that their kids skip school," New York Daily News, May 11).

Being a special educator can be a very challenging task.  Teaching, paperwork, IEP meetings and overseeing paraprofessionals leaves special education teacher drained at the end of the day.  Its no wonder that 50% of special education teachers leave their jobs within 5 years.

 

Parents can help their child with special needs succeed by helping their special teachers breath!

If I had it all to do over again, I would do everything in my power to simply enjoy who my daughter was at every stage of her life instead of worrying about who she wasn’t and if I could somehow hydroplane her into that reality.

The famous “five stages of grief” aren’t necessarily predictable when a parent is dealing with a child’s loss of health or developmental skills.

About 6 million kids in America receive special education, according to the U.S. Department of Education. One out of every 10 children under the age of 14 has some type of special need, which includes any physical, cognitive, or medical disability, or chronic or life-threatening illness.

  

My 3-year-old son Jacob is one of them.

Whether you are the parent of a child with epilepsy or the caretaker of a person with epilepsy, you have come to the right place.

  

About 326,000 American children under the age of 15 have epilepsy and 200,000 new cases of epilepsy are diagnosed each year. Epilepsy affects people at different ages and in different ways.

Today's guest contributor is Shelly Sanchez Terrell, a teacher trainer, author and international speaker. Shelly is an experienced educator with many years in the field. She'll share with us the importance of making parents our partners in their child's educational journey.

The late Kingman Brewster, president of Yale University, once said,  "Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession."  We laugh at bizarre excesses, such as "kinetic wellness" to mean "gym class" (true example!)  but jargon has a darker implication: buzzwords can be well-chosen  to mask a truth that the uninitiated may find distasteful.  Here is a quick guide (with a healthy dose of dry humor) of some  of the wonderful-sounding phrases used in schools.

Because the stakes are so high, it is difficult for parents   of children with special educational needs to advocate calmly and objectively   for the educational and related services their children need.
 
  Here are some common mistakes that undermine parents' ability to obtain   appropriate services:

Do you dread parent meetings—or find that they don't yield the results you wish they did?

 

At their worst, such meetings (especially when they focus on a problem) are packed with defensiveness, frustration, guilt, and fear for parents, teachers, and students. All parties want to "get it over with." But by sharpening your facilitation skills, you can keep a parent meeting from degenerating into a dance of blame.

Children learn more from television viewing when parents participate as they would during book reading, new research from Vanderbilt University finds.

 

In a first-of-its-kind study, children showed significant gains in vocabulary and comprehension when parents asked them questions about the content, rather than simply parking them in front of the screen.

IN recent years, we’ve been treated to reams of op-ed articles about how we need better teachers in our public schools and, if only the teachers’ unions would go away, our kids would score like Singapore’s on the big international tests. There’s no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student’s achievement, and we need to recruit, train and reward more such teachers. But here’s what some new studies are also showing: We need better parents. Parents more focused on their children’s education can also make a huge difference in a student’s achievement.

A first-time diagnosis of autism in a child can be an overwhelming and stressful time for parents and families. My Next Steps: A Parent's Guide to Understanding Autism serves as a roadmap for parents dealing with this challenging period and seeks to provide answers to the many questions that arise during the journey from autism diagnosis to treatment. The DVD is produced by the University of Washington Autism Center and funded by Washington State legislature. Through interviews with experts and treatment providers, My Next Steps familiarizes parents with topics that are crucial in providing the best support for their child.

A first-time diagnosis of autism in a child can be an overwhelming and stressful time for parents and families. My Next Steps: A Parent's Guide to Understanding Autism serves as a roadmap for parents dealing with this challenging period and seeks to provide answers to the many questions that arise during the journey from autism diagnosis to treatment. The DVD is produced by the University of Washington Autism Center and funded by Washington State legislature. Through interviews with experts and treatment providers, My Next Steps familiarizes parents with topics that are crucial in providing the best support for their child.

The National Center for Learning Disabilities’ RTI Action Network has developed this guide for parents and schools involved in implementing response to intervention (RTI) in the elementary grades. As schools work to implement this new approach, some confusion may arise, so parents should feel free to ask questions and raise concerns along the way.

Our Mission:  The mission of the Denver Metro Community Parent Resource Center is to provide information and resources to low-income, culturally and linguistically diverse families who have children, age birth - 26, with disabilities living in the Denver metro area.

A resolution calling for the establishment of a national day to recognize the parents of children with special needs is expected to be considered as early as Tuesday in the House of Representatives.

Dr. Naseef gives a heart-warming overview of the traumatic stress parents of children with autism go through, and the positive potential rewards the experience can bring.

My twin boys, Alex and Blake, were about 7 weeks premature. Alex cried all the time. When Blake began to talk, he pronounced the letter "r" like the letter "w."

 

Little did I know I would soon begin the journey of my life.

 

I would cry oceans of tears for my children before I began a path of discovery that would forever change my life.