Dr. Edward M. Hallowell, a former instructor at the Harvard Medical School, one of the foremost experts on ADHD in the world, and the founder of the Hallowell Center for Emotional and Cognitive Health, was invited by the Eagle Hill School in Hardwick, Massachusetts to deliver this year’s graduation speech. (March 2, 2011 – Eagle Hill [...]
Bartlesville, OK – Gifted/Talented Committee members fail to show up for meeting
I found the following story quite amusing – A Bartlesville Public Schools Gifted and Talented Local Advisory Committee meeting […] didn’t take place because the only person who showed up was Vicki Walker, BPS director of special services. (see Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise “Gifted/Talented Committee members fail to show up for meeting,â€) Interestingly, according to the Bartlesville [...]
What do you say to a kid who’s rolling around, punching, biting, kicking? (the story of Gabriel Ross)
It seems Alex Barton is not the only five-year-old verbally abused by his teacher. While Gabriel Ross has not been voted out of his classroom, he also heard his peers being forced to say they don’t want to be his friends, and he heard much worse things from his teacher . I first found Gabriel’s [...]
Report on Medications and Choices
PAL, the Parent/Professional Advocacy League, and Institute for Community Health (both based in Massachusetts), have just published Medications and Choices: The Perspective of Families and Youth: What Parents and Children Tell Us about Psychiatric Medications which they call “a ground breaking, family-driven study of the decision making process families go through when they choose to [...]
No Autistics Allowed? (the story of Alex Barton)
Everyone has already heard this unbelievable story – a teacher in a kindergarten classroom “led†her pupils “to vote […] out of class†a five-year-old being evaluated for Asperger Syndrome. The first coverage of this story (or one of the first) appeared on TCPalm.com (May 23, 2008 “St. Lucie teacher has students vote on whether [...]