Christy Clark enraged teachers and surprised many when she tweeted that class composition was one of her primary concerns. Those of us working in schools who have for twelve long years been trying to bring this issue into the public discourse thought: well, it’s about time. It was over twenty
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Facing Autism in New Brunswick: JAMA Study: $2.4 Milliion (US) Lifetime Cost of Care for Person with Autism and Intellectual Disability
JAMA study points out US lifetime costs of care for a person with autism disorder and intellectual disability will approximate $2.4 million US (ASD W/Out ID #1.4 million). For children special education and parental productivity loss were largest cost components. For adults residential care, supportive living accommodation individual productivity loss
Continue readingStaffroom Confidential: Thoughts on parent advocacy and the Moore decision: guest post
Today’s post is from David Komljenovic, in Kamloops:
The Supreme Court of Canada decision in the Moore case creates a framework of advocacy for parents of children with special needs (and I am one). Often parents find school boards obstinate&nbs…
Continue readingStaffroom Confidential: The slow death of special education
The last decade has been bad for special education – services for those students with identified disabilities (learning, intellectual, or physical). In response to court victories requiring inclusion – the policy that all children should be integrated as much as possibly into the main stream classroom setting – a framework
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