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Does your child need ADHD drugs? - CNN.com

• Does your child need ADHD drugs? - CNN.com

  tags: no_tag

  • While doctors don't endorse patients with ADHD taking themselves off drugs without consulting their physician, Kirk's experience brings up a question often on the minds of parents: Does my child really need drugs for ADHD, and if so, is there a point when he or she should stop taking them?

Virtual college tours offer low-cost campus snapshots - Salt Lake Tribune

• Virtual college tours offer low-cost campus snapshots - Salt Lake Tribune

  tags: Virtual, college, tours, youniversitytv.com

  • For high school students who have the time and money to travel, visiting a college campus is the best way to get a sense of the students, the faculty, and the feel of the place where they'll be spending four years (or more).

    But for those who can't visit, or who are just beginning their search, there's now a Web site called YOUniversityTV -- www.youniversitytv.com -- offering virtual tours of about 400 colleges and universities.

Vital Signs - Regimens - Restrictive Diets May Not Be Appropriate for Children With Autism - NYTimes.com

• Vital Signs - Regimens - Restrictive Diets May Not Be Appropriate for Children With Autism - NYTimes.com

  tags: Autism, Diet, study

  • Many parents of autistic children have put their children on strict gluten-free or dairy-free diets, convinced that gastrointestinal problems are an underlying cause of the disorder. But a new study suggests the complicated food regimens may not be warranted.

Administration Takes Aim at State Laws on Teachers - NYTimes.com

• Administration Takes Aim at State Laws on Teachers - NYTimes.com

  tags: nytimes, teacher, evaluation, student, achievement

  • The Obama administration took aim on Thursday at state laws — adopted after heavy teachers’ union lobbying — barring the use of student achievement data to evaluate teacher performance.

    

    Mike Derer/Associated Press

    Education Secretary Arne Duncan, center right, with students and others in Newark in June.

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    Department of Education Race to the Top Fund (pdf)

    The federal Department of Education proposed rules to prevent states with such laws from getting money from a $4.3 billion-educational innovation fund.

    Money from the Race to the Top Fund is to be distributed in two stages, late this year and in 2010, by Education Secretary Arne Duncan to a handful of states with positive records of what the department considers school reform as well as plans for additional improvement.

Schools slowly add phones, PDAs to curriculum - Tech & gadgets- msnbc.com

• Schools slowly add phones, PDAs to curriculum - Tech & gadgets- msnbc.com

  tags: msnbc.com, learning, PDA, Phones, iphone, technology, education

  • NEW YORK—

    Smartphones now have hundreds of applications meant to educate kids — from graphic calculators to animation programs that teach spelling and phonics.

National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD/Youth)

• National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD/Youth)

  tags: youth, employment, disability

  • The National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD/Youth) assists state and local workforce development systems to better serve all youth, including youth with disabilities and other vulnerable youth. The NCWD/Youth, created in 2001, is composed of partners with expertise in education, youth development, disability, employment, workforce development and family issues. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), the NCWD/Youth is housed at the Institute for Educational Leadership in Washington, D.C. NCWD/Youth offers a range of technical assistance services to state and local workforce investment boards, youth councils and other workforce development system youth programs.

MCH Library Knowledge Path: Autism Spectrum Disorders

• MCH Library Knowledge Path: Autism Spectrum Disorders

  tags: Autism, ASD, Library, Resources, Knowledge, Parents

Disability.gov: Connecting the Disability Community to Information & Opportunities - renamed and relaunched

• Disability.gov: Connecting the Disability Community to Information & Opportunities

  WASHINGTON — In conjunction with the 19th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the U.S. Department of Labor has re-named and re-launched DisabilityInfo.gov as Disability.gov. Available at http://www.disability.gov, the site offers comprehensive information about programs and services to better serve more than 50 million Americans with disabilities, their family members, veterans, employers, educators, caregivers and anyone interested in disability-related information.

  tags: disability, transition, benefits, employment, disability.gov

MSUB conference will focus on autism

• MSUB conference will focus on autism

  tags: autism, conference, billings, mt

  • The conference will focus on older children with autism and will cover a variety of topics, including Asperger's syndrome, anger management, supporting children with autism in regular classrooms, estate planning for children with autism, life skills education for transition years, sensory integration, social skills and social behavior and medications. The keynote speaker is Brenda K. Roche, a neuropsychologist at Arrowhead Psychological and Behavioral Sciences.

Teenager wings it with a fake airline - Times Online

• Teenager wings it with a fake airline - Times Online

  tags: autism, stories

  • He said that his son suffered from a form of autism and was “a phenomenal individual who is enterprising and creative” with an ability to recall the exact detail of every airline’s flight schedules. But the autism also made his behaviour highly challenging.