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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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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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