A Personal Aside This is a follow up to a Q&A I wrote two years ago for University Affairs magazine From Ph.D. to Life section (link-out available here). In that piece, I described how I made the segue from neuroscience research to working as a teacher in a special education classroom. Please go and read that … More Life After a PhD, The Importance of Getting Certifications
This table details the frequency of domestic violence offenses in the state of Utah in 2012. The above table focuses in on violence toward family members in Utah in 2012. I start with these statistics to point out the reality that our children live in. These are numbers from the state of Utah taken from … More Sex, Slenderman, & Suicide: Crucial Conversations with Autistic Adolescents – Part 1: Sex
A Personal Aside Note: I choose to avoid person first language at the direct request of autistic individuals with whom I interact in real life as well as on the internet. I choose to err on the side of referring to autistics in the way they tell me to rather than follow a political convention. … More Help Autistic Kids Help Themselves
A Teaching Aside I was reading a blog post that was being circulated on twitter and it got me thinking. It was a blog post about how most of the time we are not actually managing the behavior of autistic or other disabled kids in order to help the kid, but to make the kid … More We Need to Approach Behavioral Management Differently
A Teaching Aside! So I have just finished reading a book that I bought over the course of the school year but never found the time to read until now. It brought up some good ideas that I would like to touch on. Mostly so you all go and read the book. The book is Lost … More Collaborative and Proactive Solutions
Why Haven't They Done That Yet? 