Working long hours, using your own money to pay for classroom materials, and struggling to engage students who are ready for summer vacation-yes, doing all that makes teaching a tough job. Now add the challenge of getting kids with learning...

Erin Crosby doesn't recall social-emotional learning (SEL) being part of her student experience. Crosby, now a special education teacher at an elementary school in Massachusetts, was in college by the time SEL programming went mainstream in...

More than a month after enacting a law allowing people with disabilities a new way to save money, the White House is celebrating what's being hailed as landmark legislation. The law, signed by President Barack Obama in late December, paves the...

When President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden sat down last Friday with leaders from special interest groups to discuss the impending fiscal cliff, at least one disability advocate was at the table. Peter Berns, CEO of The Arc, was...

Growing up, I had always wondered if I had received the correct autism diagnosis. I was diagnosed with autism and ADHD at age 3, and for the amount of “evidence-based therapy for autism” that has consumed my entire childhood, I should have been...

California resident Katie Prather remembers thinking that her son, who has autism, could have mastered math skills if he had less work to complete in elementary school. By middle school, she thought he would fare better if he had more social...

Elizabeth G. S. Munsell, MS, OTR/L Ariel E. Schwartz, PhD, OTR/L Elizabeth K. Schmidt, PhD, OTR/L Jennifer Chen, PhD, OTR/L Boston University Abstract The COVID-19 outbreak caused abrupt disruptions to many domains of everyday life, including...

“From Chaos to Community”: Inclusive Community Building in Middle Schools Kenneth Lloyd Reimer, Ph.D. University of Winnipeg (Canada) Abstract This paper highlights a study (2022) conducted in a Canadian school division which explored the...

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