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PLUK eNews for January 15, 2007
Subscribers this issue: 2,518
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- Understanding
Your Child’s IEP - Jan 16 - Missoula
- FAS/FAE
Featured Speaker Luncheon, Jan 18, Billings
- Supporting
Technology Implementation for All Students Jan 19, webinar
- Developing
Behavior Support Plans, Jan 25, Missoula
- Free
WRAP training in Miles City, Jan 25-27
- Focus
on Results: How Assessment Improves Achievement, Jan 26 - Billings
- Transition
Training, Jan 26, Great Falls & Glendive
- Physical
& Intellectual Development in Pre-School Children, Jan 27, Billings
- Transforming
the Difficult Elementary Classroom, Jan 27, Missoula
- Creating
Transition Portfolios - Jan 29 - Montana teleconference
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on News Items for more information
- Read
to Rover comes to Kalispell!
- Adult
ADD & Family Support in Kalispell
- Walk
for Autism in Kalispell
- New
Parent Support Group for the Bozeman Area
- Support
Group for parents with children who have a mental illness - Billings
- Free
tax filing assistance in Montana
- Committee
asked to ease rules for CHIP
- Dealing
with dyslexia: Parents, teachers say state's approach confusing
- Montana
Developmental Center secure facility fuels contention
- Montana
State Legislature Live Video
- 2007
MT Legislative Session Information
- New
and improved ways to get information to Disability Determination Services
for students applying for SSI
- President
Signs Respite Bill
- President
Signs Combating Autism Act
- Cartoons
to aid autistic children
- Design
for Everyone-Universal Design
- Antidepressants
a Suicide Risk for Young Adults
- About
Pediatric, Bipolar Disorder
- Judge
orders mental health service for child
- New
Recommendations for Down Syndrome Call for Screening of All Pregnant Women
- Why
some patients get no help after brain injury
- Understanding
the Student with Prader-Willi Syndrome
- Online
Survey about Health and Wellness
- New
On-Line Encyclopedia of Best Evidence for Educators & Researchers
- PBS
Documentary Explores 200 Years of Deaf Life in America
- Autism
Society of America
- AbleProject.org
- Mobility and Assistive Products Information
- Assisting
patients/parents ask questions to Doctors and health care professionals
- Standing
Up for Your Child’s Educational Rights
- Talking
to Your Child's Doctor
- Autism
Speaks Approves $10 Million in New Biomedical Research Grants
- Acticle:
Special Needs Mama
- Dr.
Dan Gottlieb Reads from His Best Selling Book Letters To Sam
- International
Exchange for Students with Disabilities
- Auditory-Verbal
Scholarships
- FCC
Approves IP Captioned Telephone for Compensation from Interstate TRS Fund
- Federal
Communications Commission Clarifies Captioning of Emergency Information
- Resources
for Teachers from the Center for Implementing Technology in Education (CITEd)
- OzRead
and Spell for Children & Adults
- Dysgraphia
Accommodations and Modifications
- Parents'
podcast on plans for the new year with their autistic boy
- Coaching
Strengths In Children With Learning Disabilities
- Home
School Funding Support
- The
Special Needs Clothing Store
- All
weather wear and accessories for wheelchair and scooter users
- Professional
Fit Adaptive Clothing
- MJDESIGNS
Adaptive & Everyday Clothing
- Adaptations
by Adrian - Adaptive Clothing
- AbleApparel
Adapted Clothing
- Adult
Briefs and Incontinence Products
- Protective
Incontinence Products
- Internet
cafe opens for disabled users
- Ten
Things I Wish I'd Known About Learning Disabilities
- UC
Davis M.I.N.D. Institute
- Travel
with Autism
- Autistic
fifth-grader, the spelling bee champ, is doing well in regular class
- The
Age of Autism: The AOA Awards '06
- Online
video: Reading and the Brain
- Free
webcast: Classroom Accommodations for Dyslexic Students
- Free
webcast- Dyslexia: Testing & Teaching
- Federal
Programs for Youth with Mental Health Conditions
- The
Starfall learn-to-read website is offered free as a public service
- Learning
new ways to fight ADHD
- Winter
camp gives autistic children an ongoing education
- For
kids, MS itself just half the battle
- AbleApparel
Adapted Clothing
- Financial
Literacy Information for Young People with Disabilities
- Hands
on Banking
- New
teaching method may aid autistic students
- Honk
if You are a “Spectrum Mom”
- Aboriginal
Stay in School Comic Book Project
- Fewer
Youth Ages 8 to 18 Express Understanding of Mental Illness Than of Physical
Illness Such as Asthma
- Surfing
For Surgery
- Coming
to Grips with Harassment and Bullying
- Resources
for Supporting Community Living
- HHS
Launches New Website Promoting Long-Term Care Planning
- An
Interview by Sheryl Knapp, Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities
- ADA
Best Practices Tool Kit for State and Local Governments
- I
Have Down Syndrome—Know Me Before You Judge Me
- Assistive
Technology Program Self-Assessment For Infants and Toddlers
- Idaho
is restructuring how it educates children who are deaf or blind
- Blind,
deaf woman also an accomplished pianist, author, educator
- Behavior
Monitoring Forms
- Positive
Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
- New
Guide provides victims and defendants with intellectual disabilities an
overview of legal rights and the criminal justice system
- New
online portal from the National Institutes of Health offers parents and
physicians consumer-friendly information on over 200 genetic conditions
- New
Harvard study shows that over 200 industrial chemicals have a damaging
effect on human brain, and can lead to developmental disorders such as
autism and mental retardation
- Children's
Mental Health Fact Sheet
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