Why Every Mom Needs a Tribe — Building a Support System Motherhood is beautiful, but let’s be honest — it also comes with exhaustion, overwhelm, and moments when you wonder, “Am I doing enough?” And that’s exactly why every mom needs a tribe. A tribe is not just a group of friends. It’s a support […]
There are many children in Japan with foreign roots who, because they don’t speak Japanese well, cannot take regular classes at school. One in 20 public primary and junior high school students across the country who need Japanese language lessons have been put in classes originally intended for children with disabilities, a national survey recently […]
Mar 5th 2022 HAYLEY HARDING’S son, born in 2014, began crawling late, around the time that other children were learning to walk. Pre-school staff warned that his speech was delayed and his concentration span was short. By the age of four he had been diagnosed with autism, of a sort doctors and teachers said could […]
A CO Antrim writer has slammed 11-plus-style exams after sharing a photo of her daughter, who she said cried when she heard her result. Angeline King, author of novels such as Snugville Street and A Belfast Tale, posted a thread on Twitter attacking the “education system of the past” and urging Stormont politicians to “overhaul” […]
By Anne Dachel I’ve been looking at stories about special education for five years now for Loss of Brain Trust and things show no sign of quietly settling down. Every once in a while some story will mention the percentage of kids who have special needs or else cite the current autism rate. I’ve faithfully […]
Don Bailey Distinguished fellowRTI International Millions of infants have benefited from Don Bailey’s work as a member of the US Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children. For six years, he helped decide which conditions doctors should screen for in all babies born in the United States. The program is one of the […]
Controversial or competent? Stuck or goal-oriented? In 2022, the Arizona legislature and governor will have to decide what kind of leaders they will be. This year lawmakers have a real chance to improve the lives of Arizonans. Our state has the means to fix abysmal teacher salaries, create lasting solutions for students, and provide for […]
Your browser does not support the video tag. Break New software uses artificial intelligence to automatically identify and quantify certain types of social behavior in mice from videos of mice interacting in a cage – even animals with cables implanted to monitor their brain activity. The tool, called Mouse Action Recognition System (MARS), could speed […]
It’s that time of year again. We run around like crazy preparing for the holidays: cooking, cleaning, shopping, going to parties and then boom! In the middle of it all we get sick. Stress can actually be a helpful survival response, but only for a specific, short-lived situation. Unfortunately, we all tend to live in […]
Every day, Tammy Moore, director of transportation at Halifax County Public Schools, thinks, “Will there be bus drivers today managing all the routes?” as they continue to look for additional bus drivers and replacement drivers. Often times, bus drivers have to double their routes to get all bus drivers home from school. Sometimes moors and […]
For more than 15 years, Glasgow lawyer Iain Nisbet has been fighting to give vulnerable children the education they need. He takes up the cases of high school students who have been bullied, traumatized and often excluded from class. They suffer from a range of disabilities and are desperate for the support that only special […]
The pandemic shone a light on a creaking education system, which is struggling to do the job required of it It was the day everything changed: March 12th, 2020. Schools and colleges were shut and catapulted into an experiment in remote learning on a massive scale. Students and teachers grappled overnight with online learning. […]
