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Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? theory of mind Jul 23, 2022

 

THEORY OF MIND

ToM or Theory of Mind is the ability to identify others’ mental states (beliefs, knowledge, emotions, and intentions) and use them to understand, predict, and judge others’ thoughts, behaviors, and language. ToM allows us to build a social world where we can understand how people ...

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Holy Moly, You Didn't Tell Me!!! be on task finish on time following directions hidden curriculum how to get help social skills Jul 16, 2022

Hidden Curriculum

For a teen, there is nothing worse than violating a social rule that everybody else knows and therefore becoming the butt of jokes and ridicule. Recovery, at least at that moment, for the teen seems impossible and the teen is sure that  everybody is going to hate them.

Hidden cur...

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Social Cognition social awareness social cognition social competence social skills social sprocessing Jul 10, 2022

Functional social competence is the effective and fluent use of social awareness, social processing, social skills, and social cognition to interpret and analyze social environments and use social behavior to achieve one’s individual and group goals. This is done through the flexible use of internal...

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Here's Looking at You!! executive function eye contact joint attention listening social cognition social skills tom theory of mind Jun 24, 2022

This Dad and his child are engaged in what we call joint attention. I will grant you it is pretty early on but the skill does tend to emerge between 6-14 months. It is also another one of those skills we take for granted because most of us have never heard of it before and we do not know what it mea...

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Processing Social Information social cognition social competence social skills Jun 18, 2022

 

Anyone know why a person with a PhD is working at a fast-food place? If you think it is because they may not have very good social skills, you have maybe 20% of the answer. Actually, they may have some very reasonable social skills; however, like most topics connected to learning, the concept of ...

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Predict & Prevent to Extinguish Negative Behavior Jun 05, 2022

POSITIVE TACTICS FOR NEGATIVE BEHAVIOR

When I was teaching life skills in a high school, I had a non-verbal student whose reaction to a perceived challenge of almost any kind was to rock violently at his desk, scream at the top of his lungs, and bite his finger down to the bone. It did not take lon...

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Fundamentals of Instructional Approach to Behavior behavior skills classroom tactics May 28, 2022

MAINTAINING  SANITY IN THE MIDST OF NEGATIVE BEHAVIOR

If it is well established that all behavior is a form of communication that does not always translate easily and can be quite obscure. Why is it then that behavior frequently can send otherwise rational adults to the brink of mental and/or emot...

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EDUCATIONAL REGRESSION compensatory ed covid regression May 21, 2022

 

IS YOUR CHILD

LOSING OUT ON SERVICES ? 

14% -19% OF CHILDREN

ARE DUE COMPENSATORY EDUCATION SERVICES 

DUE TO STAGNATION OR REGRESSION!

 

BUT WILL THEY GET IT ???????

The COVID-19 pandemic created very unique challenges for schools, students, and parents but, School Districts had continue...

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15 Principles of Restraint & Seclusion inclusion manifestation of disability restraint suspension May 13, 2022

 

When I read that a six-year-old has been taken from a school in handcuffs by police, as a former special ed teacher, I want to take every administrator in the building from the school in handcuffs by police and let them stay in jail for a couple of days not knowing what is going to happen just to...

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Comp Ed Agreements: More of What You Need to Know comp ed comp ed funds compensatory education settlement agreements May 08, 2022
 

COMPENSATORY EDUCATION PROPOSALS

Determinations Must be Individualized.

Think about when will compensatory education be provided? • It should not be delivered when the child is involved in other learning opportunities.
       •    It should not feel like a punishment.

  • When will it be co
  • ...
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Understanding Compensatory Education!! compensatory education esy Apr 29, 2022

UNDERSTANDING

COMPENSATORY EDUCATION

What is it for?

Who is entitled to Comp. Ed.?

Why is it awarded?

Things that can go wrong!

 

Compensatory education is for a student deprived of reaching their special education and related services goals in their IEP. Compensatory education is an educati...

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Your Evaluation Sucks! Now What? Apr 22, 2022

 

YOUR EVALUATION "SUCKS"

YOU WANT TO DISAGREE

SO WHAT DO YOU DO ?!?

 

ONLY 4 REASONS

TO DISAGREE WITH

AN EVALUATION UNDER I.D.E.A.

 

There are times when you are quite sure the child they are discussing is not even related to the child the meeti...

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