Category: Education

Unique Summer Camp for Children Who Use Computers to Communicate

Camps 02/04/201602/08/2016 admin 0 Comments

MOUNTAINSIDE, NJ: Camp Chatterbox, sponsored by Children’s Specialized Hospital, is a weeklong overnight camp for children and young adults, ages 5-22, who use synthesized Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices. Chatterbox offers two unique programs – a Family Program for children ages 5-14 and an Independence and Self-Advocacy Program for teens and young adults ages 15-22. All campers must be able to participate in the program without requiring one-on-one behavioral support. All campers are involved […]

Camp K: State of Desire

Education, Featured Topics, Parenting 12/14/2015 admin 0 Comments

BY CHRISTINE REDMAN-WALDEYER Connectedness, Independence & Growth Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds. – Novelist Miguel de Cervantes We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom. – Poet Rosario Castellanos Jackie Vuich-Leckie recalled when her daughter, Ohia, was diagnosed with 22q (also referred to as Velocardiofacial syndrome, VCFS, and/or DiGeorge syndrome) when she was just 17 months old. Her name, Hawaiian, is […]

Stigma And Health Conditions – Part 1

Education, Featured Topics, Special Features 11/17/201512/10/2015 admin 0 Comments

BY CHERYLE B. GARTLEY WITH MARY RADTKE KLEIN Part One Of A Series (Authors’ Note: While some of this article has been written in the first person as a matter of style, and due to the fact that one of the authors lives in the world of the stigmatized, it is really a joint enterprise.) Whether a person is born with a health condition, or living with one acquired at any age, stigma in any […]

Myths & Facts: Acquisition of American Sign Language & English

Education, Parenting 11/11/201511/10/2015 admin 0 Comments

BY J. FREEMAN KING Even though American Sign Language (ASL) and English are totally diverse languages in that one, ASL, is a visual language and English, in its spoken form, is an auditory language, their manner of acquisition is strikingly similar, in that the brain readily encodes both a visual language and an auditory language in like fashion. Certainly, deaf  children are born with a predisposition to learn language, whether it be visual , spoken, […]

U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services Release Early Learning Challenge Annual Performance Reports for 20 States

Education 10/31/201510/28/2015 admin 0 Comments

The U.S. Department of Education released a report today that shows Race to the Top—Early Learning Challenge states are rapidly improving the quality of early learning programs while enrolling more children, especially from low- and moderate income families, in the highest-quality programs. What’s more, thousands more children are receiving health screenings to help detect medical or developmental issues earlier, the report shows. The report comes from the annual performance reviews for the 20 states that […]