PLUK eNews - December 23,
2005
The PLUK Office will be close today, December 23 and reopen on Tueday, January 3. Happy Christmas and New Year to
everyone!
- Listening
to Learn: Digital Reading Solutions
- Kurzweil
3000 Video Gallery
- Adaptive
Technology Success Stories
- Good
Experience Games - good games, fun games
- A
Holiday Poem, Read by the SARA
- Congress
Utterly Fails In Its Commitment to America's Schoolchildren
- Artists
for Autism
- Mental
Health Services Locator
- National
Center Learning Disabilities: Identify A Child's Learning Disability
- ICI
Publications by Subject
- NDEP
- National Deaf Education Project
- Online
VR Program
- Business
Tax Credits & Incentives for Employment of People with Disabilities
- Parenting
Solutions: discipline for difficult children, angry teens, adolescents
- Child
Care Resources
- Resources
to Promote Social and Emotional Health and School Readiness in Young Children
and Families—A Community Guide
- Mysteries
of the teenage brain
- HISTORY
OF THE KIDS ON THE BLOCK PUPPETS
- Missoulian:
Conference introduces new technology to hearing impaired students
- Deaflympic
Ski, Snowboard & Cross Country Team Tryouts Telluride, Colorado on
03/12/06
- Leadership
Enrichment Adventure Program (LEAP)
- CDL
services and resources for students and their families
- Thomas Hehir-Eliminating Ableism in Education-Harvard Educational
Review
- MercuryNews.com
| 12/14/2005 | Educational value of toddler tech toys questioned
- Online
Certificate Program: Early Hearing Detection & Intervention
- PEAK Inclusion Conference - Denver
- The
Electronic Age: Building Social Skills Online
- LibriVox:
free audiobooks
- WrongPlanet.net - Aspergers and Autism Community
- Michigan's
special education ranks high-State requires districts to offer programs up to
age 26, much longer than the rest of the nation.
- Awards
& Grants: Youth Service America
- National
Alliance for Secondary Education and Transition
- NCWD/Youth
-- Guideposts for Success
- Adults
With Lazy Eye Can Improve: New Treatment Offers Promise For Previously
Incurable Condition
- Class
opens eyes to risks kids face online - billingsgazette.com
- Autism
reports and information
- To
Raise Achievement of Students with Disabilities, Greater Flexibility Available
for States, Schools
- Blind MSU nursing student honored as an inspiration
- Wrightslaw:
Tips: Taking Care of Yourself
- Centers
for Medicare & Medicaid Services launches new web site
- New
Report on Educational Media for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers - Kaiser
Family Foundation
- Support Group for people who have lost a loved one to suicide -
Columbus
- Scholarships available for Self-Emploment training in
Missoula
- Down
syndrome barriers falling with new college-degree opportunities
- Charitable
Cheese making funds from fun
- Annual rodeo provides assistance to families with medical
needs
- Disabled
artist helps recently injured man - billingsgazette.com
- The
Fly Pentop Computer - How an educational toy became a hot holiday gadget.
- Anaconda kids come to Capitol, ask lawmakers to boost funding -
billingsgazette.com
- Special
Ed Advocate - Bullying & Harassment, Getting Help from the School
- Art
Activities and Resources for Children and Adults with Disabilities, From
KinderArt.com
- State Children's Health Insurance Plan to expand -
billingsgazette.com
- State
program provides phone equipment for disabled - billingsgazette.com
- About
UCP - One-Stop Resource Guide
- 2005
State Special Education Outcomes: Steps Forward in a Decade of Change
[NCEO]
- The
upsurge in babies who are born before their time
- The
gift of speech
- Depression
And Anxiety Improve After Epilepsy Surgery
- ActionBioscience.org
- Lesson Directory
- Wrightslaw
- Advocacy Articles - Tactics & Strategies: How to Disagree with the IEP
Team without Starting WW III by Pam and Pete Wright
- Wrightslaw
- Articles - Wrightslaw Game Plan for New Parents
- Wrightslaw
- Learning to Negotiate is Part of the Advocacy Process
- Wrightslaw
- Understanding Power, Different Perspectives
- Reading
into the future
- Disabled
ready for mainstream
- Nasa
tries to figure out real-life Rain Man's brain
- Schools
Accepting Sign As `Foreign Language'
Upcoming trainings: (from the PLUK
Training and Conferences Calendar - http://pluk.mt.typepad.com/pluk_training_conferences)
(click
on title for more information)
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