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As diagnoses rise, more colleges add services for students with autism

The Hechinger Report

Colleges have created special support programs because other campus disability services, to which students with autism are often referred, don’t always meet all their needs, advocates and parents say. The first autism support program in the United States began at Marshall University in West Virginia in 2002.

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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

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Once I was speaking in Virginia and some teachers told me I had to meet Pam, that she was a “teacher’s and student’s superintendent.” They flipped to one-to-one sometime around 2002. How to Get Buy-in For Transformational Change from Teachers. Date: January 15, 2018. You know, Charlottesville is the center of Albemarle County.

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Students on the autism spectrum are often as smart as their peers — so why do so few go to college?

The Hechinger Report

Students who are part of Project REACH meet weekly to discuss study strategies and ways that autism affects them socially and academically. The increase in the number of young people diagnosed with autism in the last 14 years has been staggering — from one in 152 in 2002 to an estimated one in 68 today. Photo: Rita Obeid.

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‘The Truth Is, I Love the Work’

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I interviewed five women — all Central American immigrants — in Spanish, and with support from Early Edge California , a statewide policy and advocacy organization I interned for, I paid each participant a stipend for their time. Leticia Martinez Leticia Martinez immigrated to Los Angeles from Mexico in 2002 with her three daughters.

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Here’s How Head Start Parents Are Building Careers As Early Childhood Educators

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Yasmina Vinci, the executive director of the National Head Start Association, an advocacy and professional support organization for Head Start explains that Head Start’s mission has always been to “to give everyone in the family an education mindset.” At the time, Anglero-Aviles was 21 years old, working in retail to make ends meet. “I

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From foster care to college

The Hechinger Report

Later that day, she planned to study for her summer session classes, English and public speaking, and to meet with an advisor. Jennifer Pokempner, director of child welfare policy at Juvenile Law Center, a legal advocacy group in Philadelphia, said the Seita program is “seen as a model.”

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The 2019 Global Education Conference - Full List of 130 Sessions and 10 Keynotes!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Faye Miller, University of Canberra/Human Constellation - Digital Research Consultancy How Online Tutoring Programs have Developed Global Citizens , Kasey Beck, President, Invictus Institute HOW TO COMBINE MEDIA ARTS AND EXCHANGES IN GLOBAL LEARNING. and abroad.