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		<title>What is BIP or Behavior Intervention Plan?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP) takes the observations made in a Functional Behavioral Assessment and turns them into a concrete plan of action for managing a student&#8217;s behavior. A BIP may include ways to change the environment to keep behavior from starting in the first place, provide positive reinforcement to promote good behavior, employ planned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Neurofeedback?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neurofeedback is a way to “change” your brain waves or the electrical activity in your brain. By doing this it will ultimately change how you feel, how you respond, and how you interact with others. Although it is a controversial treatment for treating ADHD, the therapy retrains the brain to produce electrical patterns that associate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is a FBA or Functional Behavioral Assessment?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) is an attempt to look beyond the obvious interpretation of behavior as &#8220;bad&#8221; and determine what function it may be serving for a child. Truly understanding why a child behaves the way he or she does is the first, best step to developing strategies to stop the behavior. Schools are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What does ESY or Extended School Year mean?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Extended School Year (ESY) is a way to keep improvement going for children who would lose headway without school over the long summer break. As a provision of IDEA, ESY may involve actual school classes; speech, physical or occupational therapy; payment for private speech, physical or occupational therapy; programs out-of-district; or other arrangements specified in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Link between Children with Hypertension and Learning Disabilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has recently been some information connecting students with Hypertension to ADHD and learning disabilities. The study said that children with high blood pressure are four times more likely to have learning disabilities and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The study followed children with high blood pressure. 28% of them had learning disabilities while 20% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special Education Categories</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are several areas in which a student can be identified and made eligible for special education. Autism &#8211; a developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, it is generally evident by age three. Deaf-Blindness – a combination of hearing and visual impairments Deafness – a hearing impairment Emotional Disability – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special Education Acronyms</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 01:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every field has their own jargon, but to a parent of a student with a disability the language used in a meeting can be overwhelming and intimidating. Here is a cheat sheet to help you better understand what is being said or what has been written in your child’s IEP. ABA: Applied Behavior Analysis APE: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;What Teachers Make,&#8221; by Taylor Mali</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 01:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>What is Due Process?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 01:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A due process hearing is usually a formal, contested, adversarial trial. If you have already gone to mediation and were not satisfied with the outcome, you may request a due process hearing, but you do not need to have gone to mediation first. Prior to requesting a due process hearing you should become familiar with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Mediation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 01:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mediation is a procedural safeguard to help resolve disputes between parents and schools. Mediation is basically a negotiation between parents and schools, when issues can not be resolved at an IEP meeting. There will not be attorneys involved, just an impartial person to hear both sides and help both parties navigate through the issues in [...]]]></description>
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