Last week the latest Davidson Institute eNews-Update was published. Worth noting is their updated map of gifted policies by state and list of summer programs. I have also started updating my links section with more resources that I have come across, including colleges with various summer and weekend programs for gifted students. [...]
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My husband came across an interesting article in The New York Times titled Studying Young Minds, and How to Teach Them. While it doesn’t mention gifted children, it does talk about how cognitive neuroscience is changing our expectations about teaching young children. It’s interesting to see that it wasn’t until recently that scientists realized that children [...] The first time I saw the acronym IRL in a blog, I had no clue what it referred to. I forget if I Googled it or finally figured it out from context, but it meant “In Real Life”. The blogger was concerned that someone from her real life was reading her blog, which hadn’t been censored. [...] Since my last update, Z has now had two sessions with Early Intervention. It would have been three, but the speech pathologist needed to reschedule our session today, which actually was pretty poor timing since this was the first week that I dropped Z’s second session of private therapy. My thought was that he should hopefully [...] Despite my best intentions, I missed the NAGC’s webinar tonight on the power of advocacy. I’m hoping they’ll put the recorded session online soon, since I need all the help I can get. At the moment we appear to be headed to mediation with our school district over the GIEP they hastily pieced together for C [...] It was back in October when C’s school agreed to let him use EPGY there. However, many weeks went by without anything happening. I casually asked about it at one point and they said they were waiting to hear how it was going at home. I explained it was going fine and so I thought they [...] I finally took the GRE yesterday and am one step closer to going back to school. I’m so glad that I’m done with that test! I’ve spent a huge amount of time over the past few weeks studying vocabulary and taking practice tests. I definitely recommend taking the practice tests on the computer (ETS puts out [...] A lot of the issues C’s had at school this year, like not being adequately challenged, have not been a surprise. We were surprised, however, by some social and behavioral issues that came up. While his school said they would pursue an OT evaluation for him, nothing has happened in the 6 weeks since. It turns [...] Before Thanksgiving early intervention came out to reevaluate Z’s speech. Despite our report from CHOP that clearly stated his articulation issues are not developmental, EI still resisted qualifying him for speech under their guidelines. They were, however, concerned about his drooling and low muscle tone and said they could qualify him for services due to those [...] |
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