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What Exactly Are Autism And PDD?
Did you know that autism and PDD occur four times more often in boys than girls? Want to learn more? Check out this short but thorough overview from NICHCY.
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Go Ask ERIC.
By: Renata Bursten, Dragonfly Staff
ERIC gathers and disseminates the professional literature, information, and resources on the education and development of individuals of all ages who have disabilities and/or who are gifted.
ERIC is a very useful information clearinghouse on disability topics from the Council on Exceptional Children. It provides many services such as:
Provide access to the ERIC database of educational materials, which has more than 1,000,000 citations. (70,000 citations on disabilities or gifted issues)
Collect educational documents, journal articles, and other educational materials on special and gifted education, selecting the highest quality material.
Catalog, abstract, and index the selected material for inclusion in the ERIC database.
Provide information on current research, programs, and practices in special and gifted education.
Prepare publications such as ERIC Digests (brief overviews of current topics); provide information on topics such as ADD, gifted, behavior disorders, early childhood, inclusion, learning disabilities.
Respond to general questions on disabilities and gifted education via the AskERIC service on the Internet; we are unable to offer medical opinions/diagnoses, legal opinions, financial advice, or recommendations on which schools a child should attend.
Provide references to other sources or organizations that address disabilities or giftedness.
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Eight In A Row: Developing Pre-Reading Skills
Before a child can learn to read, there are essential "pre-reading" skills that a child must master. Three of the most important are sequencing, left-right progression, and time progression (before and after). All can be explored and practiced with Eight In A Row. The puzzles show scenes that are familiar to most children. There is a child making a painting and a child getting up in the morning. Each piece has only one place to fit it onto the next piece, so children with delayed fine motor skills can usually manage the puzzle-fitting with a minimum of frustration.