If you want, you could go to some other educational site and pay, say, $45.00 for a motivational poster... ...or you could get your FREE ...   Mon Mar 24th, 2008 08:01 pm

Limitations of the DSM-IV (University of Iowa) This seems to be a pretty fair analysis and discussion of limitations and advantages of the ...   Mon Mar 24th, 2008 07:20 pm

Does DSM-IV Asperger's Disorder Exist? Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, June 2001 by Susan Dickerson, Susan L. Calhoun, Dana L. Crites There seems to be a ...   Mon Mar 24th, 2008 07:17 pm

Wow! If you feed your kid Frosted Mini-Wheats® cereal for breakfast, he'll have more sugar in his system than the kid who ATE NO BREAKFAST AT ...   Mon Mar 24th, 2008 07:12 pm

The scientific method requires that we considers -- and rejects or accepts the null hypothesis. Yet this most basic principal is seemingly being systematically forgotten, ...   Mon Mar 24th, 2008 06:56 pm

There are two kinds of persons/students with disabilities: 1) Those with real disabilities. There are many students with real disabilities, for example, students who might be deaf ...   Mon Mar 24th, 2008 06:12 pm

Will RWOL occur from within the field? Will school psychologists lead this movement? Or will outside groups of parents, advocates, agencies, students, etc. be the leaders? I'm hoping ...   Mon May 14th, 2007 06:02 pm

Hello RWOL Forum Members... It's mid-May and the Forum has been up for a couple months now.  As of today, we have nine members! There was a ...   Mon May 14th, 2007 04:13 pm

Here's a great starting point for some further discussion. I have to say right up front I don't necessarily agree with every word the ...   Wed Apr 18th, 2007 02:42 am

Your response can be based on any rationale, from small to large.  What's your bottom line?  Yes or No? ...   Fri Apr 13th, 2007 05:46 pm

On their website, the California Association of School Psychologists (CASP) has offered some information/research related to MR in the schools, forwarding the suggestion that maybe ...   Fri Apr 13th, 2007 03:59 pm

If you are looking for an empowering employee, especially a school psychologist, you may wish to consider the following: 1. First, you will probably want to ...   Wed Mar 28th, 2007 04:20 pm

It is apparent to me that almost everyone with whom I've spoken about labels and traditional "test, diagnose, and place" models agrees. Most of ...   Thu Mar 22nd, 2007 05:59 am

The shotgun approach... I hear rumors that some are proposing that RtI's third tier be composed of traditional, cognitive-processing assessment? So now people are saying, "Okay, we'll ...   Thu Mar 22nd, 2007 05:11 am

Experienced school psychologist seeking employment in a progressive and empowering California district seriously looking to implement Rights Without Labels (RWOL) noncategorical approaches/programs to effectively and ...   Thu Mar 22nd, 2007 05:07 am

Here's a scenario I've seen played out several times during my career... The student has a learning disability and has been struggling with academics in the ...   Thu Mar 22nd, 2007 04:51 am

An administrator saw me and stopped me in the hallway. He had just been working with John, an eighth grade known gangster and student with ...   Tue Mar 20th, 2007 02:02 pm

Tilly, Reschly, and Grimes are considered leaders in RWOL. You can find a brief summary of system change in the Heartland at the following URL (from ...   Sun Mar 18th, 2007 09:37 pm

If you want outstanding education, mental health, and psychological serivces for the student, please refer him or her to the school psychologist. If you want a ...   Wed Mar 14th, 2007 04:11 am

School psychologists, as social scientists, most often utilize p<.05; we all know that means we misdiagnose only 5% of the time, or in other words, ...   Wed Mar 14th, 2007 03:49 am