by Dan DeMarle | Aug 10, 2023 | Recommended Reading, Uncategorized
“You must be your own advocate… You can’t rely solely on your doctors or you family or anyone else; you have to stay on top of your own care, no matter how sick or exhausted you feel. Learn everything you can about your disease and your diagnosis, locate...
by Dan DeMarle | Jul 31, 2023 | Americans with Disability Act (ADA), Disability, Recommended Reading, Section 504, Special Education, Uncategorized
“They were not medical problems to rehabilitate. We were not medical problems. I was never going to undo the damage polio had done to my nerve cells and walk again, nor was this my goal. The disabled veterans coming home from the Vietnam War were never going to grow...
by Dan DeMarle | Jul 27, 2023 | Emotional Disturbance, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Recommended Reading, Uncategorized
“Trauma isn’t just the sadness that comes from being beaten, or neglected, or insulted. That’s just one layer of it. Trauma also is mourning the childhood you could have had. The childhood other kids around you had. The fact that you could have had a mom who hugged...
by Dan DeMarle | Jul 16, 2023 | Americans with Disability Act (ADA), Disability, Recommended Reading, Uncategorized
Grace LapointeJul 7, 2023 This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. As a disabled writer myself, I think there isn’t a singular disability experience. These books are as diverse as their authors, and...
by Dan DeMarle | Jul 16, 2023 | Classroom, Parents/Guardians, Social Skills/Bullying, Social Skills/Bullying, Teaching, Teaching, Uncategorized
Everyday conflict can get in the way of academics in the middle grades. Kids need to learn the essential social competencies that will allow them to get back to productive learning. By Paige Tutt March 31, 2023 When she speaks to young teens and their parents about...
by Dan DeMarle | Jun 24, 2023 | Teaching, Teaching, Uncategorized
Collin Binkley ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON – Math and reading scores among America’s 13-year-olds fell to their lowest levels in decades, with math scores plunging by the largest margin ever recorded, according to the results of a test known as the nation’s report...
