A 17-year-old who excels in school but waits until the night before college applications are due to ask for recommendations. A 14-year-old team captain who fights with his younger sibling as if he were 6 himself. A 12-year-old with plenty of friends who forgets basic hygiene like brushing teeth or showering. These are just a […]
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New Mexico Developmental Disabilities Council launches special-education ombud workplace | Schooling
Upon discovering that his son was musically inclined, Valentin Anaya enrolled the high school student in a music class at Socorro High, only to find that the boy had been marked absent nearly 40 times halfway through the first semester. Valentin “Gogo” Anaya, a junior, is autistic and his father said he did not respond […]
SINGAPORE – Instead of shuttling back and forth between preschools and ECI centers, parents will soon be able to enroll children with developmental needs in schools that offer both services. The inclusive support program will be tested in seven preschools across the island by June 2022. Minister of State for Social and Family Development Sun […]
“Parents have been on a plane that is currently in distress for months, and they still are fiddling with their own oxygen mask, trying to figure out how to get it on,” says David Anderson, the senior director of national programs and outreach at the nonprofit Child Mind Institute in New York. But for caregivers […]