Hello, I'm David Poeschl, a retired school district special education director and Cal State University lecturer. For the past 10 years I have been providing individual advocacy services to parents of students with disabilities. Currently, I speak to 300-400 families per year and work closely with 40-50 of those. I see every day the difficulty parents have trying to access the system initially, and the struggles to get and maintain a good special education program for their children over tim ...
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Send us a text In some places and in some industries the days when dyslexia, learning diiferences and other school based disabilities are seen as debilitating and in need of only rememdiation are gone. Today, particularly in tech and some governmental agencies, "dyslexic thinking" is seen as an asset and not as a disability or a liability. Dyslexic…
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Technology for Dyslexia, Other Learning Disabilities and High Functioning Autism
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Send us a text AI is revolutionizing the technology that allows students with disabilities to access the general education curriculum. Struggling to read no longer means missing out on academic and social information that is text based or text heavy. Devices like reading pens, that allow a student to scan text and hear it simultaneously will help t…
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Teens with High Functioning Autism and School - Problems and Promise
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Send us a text I have seen a significant trend in my practice, teens with high functioning autism unable to attend school due to intense anxiety. The problem of children with autism who are unable to cope with school and develop agoraphobic type symptoms has long been around, but the increased numbers of highly intelligent, often with a "superpower…
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Positive Behavior Support (PBS) - the Basics (Behavior Series Part 1)
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Send us a text I've included a transcript of this episode. And here are a few helpful links to expand your knowledge of PBS. - https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ80580 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_behavior_support - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5048254/ This will be the first of many podcast episodes featuring different aspects of PB…
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Send us a text Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a method of teaching that embeds accommodations for all students into general education settings. Students who are visual, or auditory, or tactile/sensory learners are taught, and the student can show mastery, in the way that uses their strengths. UDL has been successfully implemented in thousan…
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