A Teaching Aside So, every once in a while I help out families that have to navigate the educational system with disabled children. Most often autistic or fragile X kids (once again this is a good time to note I am not a proponent of person first language). These phone calls tend to be very … More Teachers Should Lift Up Disabled Students, Not Hold Them Down
A Personal Aside I have been thinking about communication in autism quite a lot lately (see my Go Fund Me project). I think we often sell people with autism short with regards to their communication and we often do not give them the credit for wanting to communicate with the rest of us. The point … More Turning disadvantages into advantages
Why Haven’t They Done That Yet? This is a post I have been waiting to be able to write. I have been thinking about a problem I see in my classroom and I appealed to the scientific literature to find potential solutions. As such, this is going to be a hybrid post wherein I will … More Handwriting gets in the way of educating autistic students
A Teaching Aside So my wife pointed out an amazing tool that is going to help me have a much better relationship with my students’ parents! The tool is a new app called Scannable from Evernote. It lets me scan each of my student’s assignments each day so I have a digital copy and can … More The value of digital work samples…
Why Haven't They Done That Yet? 