Week in Review - October 2, 2015


WEEK IN REVIEW

NewNASETPublications and Articles of Interest in Special Education and Disabilities That Were Reported This Week

October 2, 2015 - Vol 11, Issue 40


 

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Dear NASET News,

Welcome toNASET'sWEEK in REVIEWHere, we provide you with the latest publications fromNASETto read and or download, as well as some of the most interesting articles that have happened this week in the field of special education. We hope you enjoy this publication.  Feel free to send us articles for this publication or let us know your thoughts about theWEEK in REVIEWatnews@naset.org.Have a great weekend.

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New This Week on NASET

NASET's HOW TO Series Issue 29A
September 2015

How To Prepare for a Triennial Review

What is the Triennial Evaluation?

Under IDEA, a child must be re-evaluated at least every three years. This is known as a triennial review. The purpose of the triennial review is to find out:
* if the child continues to be a "child with a disability," as defined within the law, and

* the child's educational needs.


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NASET's HOW TO Series Issue 29B
September 2015

How To Conduct a Functional Behavior Assessment

Identifying the underlying causes of behavior may take many forms; and, while the Amendments to IDEA advise a functional behavioral assessment approach (which could determine specific contributors to behavior), they do not require or suggest specific techniques or strategies to use when assessing that behavior. While there are a variety of techniques available to conduct a functional behavioral assessment, the first step in the process is to define the behavior in concrete terms. In the following section we will discuss techniques to define behavior.

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NASET Special Educator e-Journal October 2015

Table of Contents

* Update from the U.S. Department of Education

* What a Transformation Special Education Director Would Look Like: Characteristics of Transformational Leadership. By Angelise M. Rouse, Ph.D.

* Buzz from the Hub

* Intersection: Navigating the Road to Work

* Legislative Announcements, Calls to Participate and New Projects

* Latest Employment Opportunities Posted on NASET

* Upcoming Conferences and Events

* Funding Forecast and Award Opportunities

* Acknowledgements


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Parents Should Be Involved in Teen's Bulimia Treatment: Study

Teens with bulimia recover faster when their parents are involved in their treatment, new research reports. Traditionally, parents have been excluded from the treatment and counseling of teens with bulimia, the researchers said. But, the study's authors found that having parents play a role in their children's treatment was ultimately more effective. "Parents need to be actively involved in the treatment of kids and teens with eating disorders," said the study's leader, Daniel Le Grange, the Benioff UCSF professor in children's health at the University of California, San Francisco Benioff Children's Hospital San Francisco. To read more,click here
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Through an agreement with The American Academy of Special Education Professionals(AASEP), NASET members now have the opportunity to achieve AASEP Board Certification in Special Education - (B.C.S.E.) at a reduced fee.  AASEP Board Certification in Special Education - (B.C.S.E.) is a voluntary choice on the part of the candidate. The candidate for Board Certification wishes to demonstrate a commitment to excellence to employers, peers, administrators, other professionals, and parents. From the standpoint of the Academy, board certification will demonstrate the highest professional competency in the area of special education. Board Certification in Special Educationestablishes a much needed standard for professionals, across disciplines, who work with exceptional children.

 

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States Work To Help People With Disabilities Find Work

Michael Bethke, 19, works part time at a grocery store in Clark, S.D. He started out as an intern through the state's Project Skills program for high school students with disabilities, and now performs tasks like unloading vans. "I like it a lot," he says of his job. It's been 25 years since the Americans With Disabilities Act prohibited employment discrimination against people with disabilities. Yet as the nation celebrates the law's anniversary, a stark divide remains: men and women like Bethke are still less likely to have jobs than people who don't have a disability. To read more,click here

Childhood Cancer Devastates Family Finances, Too

Although money may be the last thing a parent worries about after a child is diagnosed with cancer, new research shows that a cancer diagnosis can take a significant toll on a family's financial well-being, too. Researchers surveyed 99 families of children being treated for cancer at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center within a month of diagnosis and again six months later. One-quarter of the families lost more than 40 percent of household income. Nearly one-third of the families had difficulty affording food (20 percent), housing (8 percent) or energy (17 percent), the study found. To read more,click here

Despite Growth, SSI May Be Under-Serving Kids

The number of children receiving disability benefits from the federal government is on the rise and for good reason, a national panel of experts suggests. Supplemental Security Income added more than 328,000 children with disabilities to its rolls between 2004 and 2013. The increase is largely in line with population and economic trends, according to a report out this month from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine's Institute of Medicine. To read more,click here

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TRIVIA QUESTION OF THE WEEK

Guess the answer to this week's trivia question and we'll recognize you in next week's Week in Review.

Congratulations to: Pamela Downing-Hosten, Olumide Akerele and Marilyn Haile who knew the answer to last week's trivia question: According to the U.S. Department of Labor, what is the current jobless rate for Americans with disabilities?
ANSWER:  10.2%
THIS WEEK'S TRIVIA QUESTION:
According to researchers from Harvard University, children who have less than this many minutes to eat lunch at school end up eating less and wasting more healthy foods. How many minutes?
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Researchers Pinpoint Brain Region That Manages Multistep Tasks

Scientists say they have pinpointed a region of the brain that helps you complete a series of activities in the right order, such as getting dressed and carrying out typical daily routines. The study authors say that the area, the rostrolateral prefrontal cortex (RLPFC), is like a foreman that helps you remember what to do step by step. "We're interested in the errors people make in everyday sequences of behavior," study co-author David Badre, associate professor of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences at Brown University, said in a university news release. "You have to internally monitor where you are and what you are doing." To read more,click here

Smartphones, Apps Prove Liberating For Those With Special Needs

Ruben Morales, a 59-year-old retired engineer who is blind and lives in Silicon Valley, has used a specialized screen-reading program for years to write and run spreadsheets on his desktop computer. But recently, he figuratively cut the cord to his desktop and joined the mobile revolution. Morales was visiting an area Veterans Affairs blind rehabilitation center, learning how to use an iPhone's features for people with vision impairment. "It's pretty amazing," Morales said, demonstrating how he can call up a song and play it with a few taps. "Whatever I can do on the computer I can basically do it on the iPhone. It has the same capability." To read more,click here

Girls Who Are Impulsive, Poor Planners May Be Prone to Weight Gain

Girls who are impulsive and have difficulties planning at age 10 may tend to gain more weight as they enter puberty, and binge eating may be a common path to that result, new research suggests. Girls at age 10 with poorer "executive function" -- characterized in part by problems with self-regulating or planning ahead -- were significantly more likely to have episodes of binge eating by 12 and gain excess weight by 16, the study found. "The novel finding here is that binge eating partially explains the relationship between impulsivity and later weight gain," said study author Andrea Goldschmidt, an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at the University of Chicago. To read more,click here

Feds Dole Out Millions For Disability Employment

Millions in federal funds are headed to six states in an effort to expand employment opportunities for people with disabilities. The U.S. Department of Labor said this week that Alaska, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, New York and Washington will share in the grants totaling nearly $15 million. Each state's labor department or workforce development agency will use the money to address various needs of job seekers with disabilities including improving job training, facilitating the transition from school to work or offering customized approaches for those with significant needs. To read more,click here

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Though Rare, Some Disabilities Seen Long After Newborn Heart Surgery

Some newborns who undergo complex heart surgery may be more likely to have neurological or motor disabilities -- such as cerebral palsy -- as they grow older, a new study suggests. However, one pediatric surgeon not involved with the study said such complications were relatively rare. The Canadian study authors said that it's not necessarily the surgeries that might have led to the disabilities. Instead, a likely reason for later trouble is that the children's hearts pumped too little oxygen to the body and brain before the surgery, the authors suggested. To read more,click here

Study of Leukemias in Children Living Close to Heavily Used Roads

Researchers from CRESS (Epidemiology and Biostatistics Sorbonne Paris Cité Research Centre, Inserm -- Paris Descartes University -- University of Paris 13 -- Paris Diderot University -- INRA) studied the risk of acute leukemia in children living close to heavily used roads. To address this question, the research team considered all 2,760 cases of leukemia diagnosed in children under 15 years of age in metropolitan France over the 2002-2007 period. The results show that the incidence of new cases of myeloblastic leukemia (418 of 2,760 cases of leukemia) was 30% higher in children in the population whose residence was located within 150 m of heavily used roads, and had a combined length of over 260 m within this radius. In contrast, this association was not observed for the more common, lymphoblastic type of leukemia (2,275 cases). The researchers particularly studied the case of the Île-de-France region of Paris with the help of data modeled by Airparif, which is responsible for the monitoring of air quality in Ile-de-France. To read more,click here

Tonsillectomy for Sleep Apnea Carries Risks for Some Kids: Study

Children who have their tonsils removed to treat sleep apnea are more likely to suffer breathing complications than kids who have the procedure for other reasons, a new review shows. Researchers found that across 23 studies, about 9 percent of children undergoing a tonsillectomy developed breathing problems during or soon after the procedure. But the risk was nearly five times higher for kids with sleep apnea, versus other children. Experts said the findings, reported online Sept. 21 in the journal Pediatrics, should not scare parents away from a procedure that could help their kids. To read more,click here

Exercise Reduces Suicide Attempts by 23 Percent Among Bullied Teens

As high schools across the country continue to reduce physical education, recess, and athletic programs, a new study shows that regular exercise significantly reduces both suicidal thoughts and attempts among students who are bullied. Using data from the CDC's National Youth Risk Behavior Survey of 13,583 high school students, researchers at the University of Vermont found that being physically active four or more days per week resulted in a 23 percent reduction in suicidal ideation and attempts in bullied students. Nationwide nearly 20 percent of students reported being bullied on school property. To read more,click here

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'Preemie' Birth Linked to Less Wealth, Education in Adulthood

Adults who were born preterm tend to have less education and wealth, a new study suggests. "Our findings suggest that the economic costs of preterm birth are not limited to health care and educational support in childhood, but extend well into adulthood," said study author Dieter Wolke, a psychological scientist at the University of Warwick in England. "Together, these results suggest that the effects of prematurity via academic performance on wealth are long-term, lasting into the fifth decade of life," he added. To read more,click here

FDA Approves New Drug for Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder

A new antipsychotic drug to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in adults has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The drug, Vraylar (cariprazine), is a capsule taken once a day. "Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder can be disabling and can greatly interfere with day-to-day activities," Dr. Mitchell Mathis, director of the division of psychiatry products in the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said in an agency news release. "It is important to have a variety of treatment options available to patients with mental illnesses so that treatment plans can be tailored to meet a patient's individual needs," Mathis said. To read more,click here

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Childhood Vaccines Debate Rekindled at GOP Presidential Debate

Some parents' long-simmering concerns over the safety of childhood vaccines received unexpected -- and, in some quarters, unwelcome -- notice during the second Republican presidential candidates' debate. While the link between vaccines and autism has long been discredited, an exchange toward the debate's end addressed a more recent parental concern -- whether children are receiving too many vaccines too soon. And the potential fallout from that exchange has infectious-disease experts worried.  Candidates Ben Carson and Rand Paul -- both doctors -- both argued that children probably are receiving too many vaccinations in too short a time, and that parents ought to have the right to deviate from the recommended schedule. The candidates said vaccines are safe and important, and dismissed fears that some vaccines might cause autism, but argued for parental freedom in scheduling vaccinations farther apart. To read more,click here

Post-Secondary Programs See Signs Of Success

As a growing number of colleges offer programs for students with intellectual disabilities, a new report provides the most comprehensive look yet at who's attending and their outcomes. The federally-mandated report out this month from the Think College National Coordinating Center at the University of Massachusetts Boston offers a snapshot of what's happening at post-secondary programs across the country using data solicited from 50 programs that receive funding from the U.S. Department of Education. During the 2013-2014 academic year, the vast majority of students in the college programs were between the ages of 18 and 25 and nearly all were diagnosed with intellectual disabilities, autism or both, the report found. A quarter were dually enrolled while still receiving special education services from their local school district. To read more,click here

jobsNASET's Latest Job Listings

* Special Ed Teacher (MA) - Elementary - The Community Reach Center is a growing, multiple-location, mental health care provider in Denver, Colorado that is seeking Special Ed Teachers who will provide educational and support services. To learn more - Click here

* Special Education Teacher (ES, MS, HS) - The Special Education Coordinator or Teacher is passionate about supporting the students who are at-risk for academic under performance due to emotional and/or physical challenges so that they can succeed in the school's rigorous academic program. To learn more - Click here

* Cross Categorical Resource Teacher/ESS Coordinator - Great Hearts Academies has an immediate need for a full-time Special Education Teacher/ESS Coordinator at Teleos Preparatory Academy, Veritas Preparatory Academy, and Archway Lincoln. To learn more -Click here

* Assistant Professor (Moderate Disabilities (SPED) - The Graduate School of Education seeks a collaborative and energetic colleague to assume a tenure track position in the field of special education. Currently, the GSE offers a limited number of courses at the master's level for those seeking initial license as a teacher of students with moderate disabilities; however, we are developing a Bachelor or Arts in Education degree with an option in special education. To learn more - Click here

* Head of School - Star Academy is a non-profit, non-public school, located in San Rafael, CA, serving students with learning differences in grades 1-12.  Star Academy is a calm, nurturing and stigma-free school whose therapeutic model seamlessly integrates classroom and specialist instruction. To learn more - Click here

* Special Education Teacher - Are you a Special Education Teacher with experience in a self-contained setting?  Progressus Therapy has a position for you in one of the multiple locations available, starting immediately! To learn more - Click here

* Elementary Special Ed PALS Teacher - Cave Creek Schools has a $4,000 Sign On Bonus for a Self-Contained Special Education classroom teacher. To lead students toward the fulfillment of their potential by translating the district curriculum goals and objectives into learning experiences for each individual student in the district. To learn more - Click here

*Preschool Special Education Teacher - High energy, fun atmosphere. Flexible schedules, choice of settings.Empowering individuals to achieve their dreams. Opportunities available in Oswego, Fulton, Baldwinsville and Pulaski. To learn more - Click here

* Special Education Teacher -  Heritage Academies (NHA) partners with community groups to build and operate public charter schools. Founded in 1995, today NHA partners with 80 K-8 schools in 9 states serving over 50,000 students. To learn more - Click here

Food For Thought..........

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
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