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Category Archives: Distance Education
Packing and Unpacking: Distance Education and the Social Model of Disability
I am finally packed. Gah – I am so terrible at packing… It taxes my executive function because… anticipating… and predicting… and sorting… and organizing… and planning… and DECISIONS!! So now that this is done, I will tell you about … Continue reading
Blacksmith at the Forge + The Music of Invention
It is summer, and with summer comes that certain sense of freedom in the days that stretch before us filled with possibility. It is like that one gift under the tree that hasn’t yet been opened. In all honesty, I … Continue reading
1…2…3… Magic!! Christy Clark needs a time out!! #BCTF
Originally posted on Thirty Days of Autism:
87%… That is the result. I sit tonight on the brink of an abyss of sorts… and I stare into the darkness – with unknown demons on the move. It sounds like the…
Adding the I to IEP: H is at the table
There was another first for our 13-year-old this week. We worked with the wonderful team at H’s Distributed Learning School to update his Individual Education Plan (IEP) and for the first time ever H was there to take part. He … Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety, Autism, Distance Education, Distributed Learning, Goals, HFASD, IEP, inclusion, scaffolding, self-advocacy, Shame, Special Education
Tagged at the table, development, FIrst IEP meeting, honouring, iep, Individual Education Plan, pace, self-advocacy, self-determination, Special Education, Student-involved IEP, teacher
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Who ya gonna call? Autism, Distance Education, and Ghostbusters
H’s most recent interest (since April of this year) has been in building his own Ghostbusters backpack. He has been is watching how to videos on youtube that have been posted by other kids with similar proclivities toward creating pop … Continue reading
Posted in Autism, Distance Education, Distributed Learning, Public Education, retro pop culture, self-directed learning, Special Education, Speech and Language Therapist, Teacher
Tagged Areas of strength, capacitor, distance education, Ghostbusters, proton pack, reading and writing, school, spatial ability, Speech and Language Therapist
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Autism and Poetry: The restorative power of language, mindfulness, and a sensory break
For the past 3 years H has been involved in a 6-8 week Art/Science program held at the nearby Blue Heron Reserve. This is a wonderful hands-on enrichment opportunity that is offered annually by his DL school, and for a … Continue reading
Posted in acceptance, Anxiety, Aspergers, Autism, Behaviour, Communicate, Distance Education, Distributed Learning, Parent, Resiliency, Sensory Processing Disorder, SPD
Tagged Anxiety, Art, autism poem, Blue Heron Reserve, poetry, Restorative power of language, Science, sensory break, sensory overload
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