Mon Night Storms

I wasn't in class Monday night because I am terrified of storms. I know to most people that is not a good excuse but I have panic attacks and everything. So getting out in them is out of the question. I drove through the one on Friday until I was almost to Winchester and my Dad called telling me that there was a tornado so I had to turn around and sit and the Loves exit McDonald's for 2 hours until it pasted my home town. That was not fun!

Anyway...

If anyone would fill me in on what I missed I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,
Katie

Language Project - Due Date - Postponed One Week

Ok. . . Happy Birthday...Happy Easter...Thank You, Amanda for the potato salad...Thank You, girls for going out to Starbucks with me last week . . .

The Language Project due date has been postponed. It is now due on Wednesday, April 29th by midnight for BOTH CLASSES!!!

Do not keep procrastinating, however...keep forging ahead!

Mrs. White

Yes, this did change . . . No, it won't change again! :)

Second Grader

I figured I would share this with you all, I have been volunteering as a tutor at a elem school in Richmond this semester. In the second grade classroom that I have been in, I have watched this one little boy struggle throughout the whole year. He is almost all the time in gen ed classrooms, when he probably should not be. He is quickly falling way behind the rest of the class with no one to help keep him motivated to work. While the other kids are reading stories, he is playing with blocks. I don't know what all the do in intervention when he is in there, but watching him in the gen ed classroom saddens me like no other. Two weeks ago the kids took testing, and I watched as the little boy sat and cried over the fact that he couldn't even read the questions. What kills me is that no one was allowed to help him on the test, and he was told to try. He just looked and filled in circles. I don't know why it got to me so much that day, but I left the elem school calling my mom right away crying cause I felt like this little boy is just not getting the attention and help he deserves. I know I cant change the world, but I just wish that each child with any disability no matter the level of trouble they have, would get all the help and more than is necessary in seeing them succeed.

Question 8 on the test

I know this probably sounds stupid and I'm probably the only one who doesn't get this, but can anyone clarify what the second half of question 8 is asking? I get the first part. The part that I don't really understand is "Describe a way a teacher can model this act and have children use it naturally in the classroom." I'm not asking for answers, just a different way of asking the question. Thanks everyone!!

-Kayla

Is this semester over yet????

Hey guys,

Please send me happy thoughts this week. I have about 27264643334 things to do and no time to do them. It's getting down to crunch time in all of my classes and it's really starting to stress me out. The worst part of all is that instead of focusing in and working harder like I always do when I have a lot of work to get done, I just want to be outside in the sunshine and it's harder to make myself do the work. This language project is really getting me worried too because I just don't know when I'm going to do it. Between class, two jobs, and going out of state this weekend, I am running out of time!! I'm sure I'll get everything done; I'm just beginning to frazzle!!! Blahhh!!!! Hope everyone else out there is hanging on!!

Kayla

Hello, everyone! Just wanted to tell everyone Happy Easter! Be careful travelling, and I'll see you all in class Monday! :)

Communication Technology

Hey everybody! I had a question on my mind the night we talked about intellectual disabilities and autism. I know there is a lot of technology out there that helps people with these kinds of disabilities to communicate. I was wondering if using these kinds of technologies helps these students to become more vocal and to rely less on the technology they use or if the often become more dependent on them. I understand that they would be very necessary when it comes to needing to communicate so I can certainly see why they are used. However, do people who use this kind of technology still work on using voice to communicate if they are capable? Just a thought.

Test 3

Does anyone know if one of the things we used at the BGTC was a communication symwritter. It seems right and I looked it up and it was on their website. Just wanted to make sure it was one of the things that we used while we were there.

Test 2 results

I just saw my test results from Test 2. I done much better on this one! YAY! I love the way Mrs. White gives us feedback on every single question. No matter if they are right or wrong. I have never had a teacher do this before and it defiantly helps. So hopefully I will do even better on Test 3. Good luck to everyone!

*Sigh*

It is 12:43 am and I just registered for all my classes, I am exhausted BUT I got myself all worked up trying to get all the classes I needed! GREAT now I won't be able to sleep for another hour or so!!! So I figured I get on here and just rant or talk, whatever!
So I have been going to the Bluegrass Tech center for about 2-3 weeks now and planing on continuing this little volunteer fun!! I have gotten pretty close to Debbie and especially April they are both super awesome I love being around them they crack me up!!!! I have been working on filing books in alphabetical order, and making up questions and answers for I don't know how many books, I think Berenstein bears are huge cause they sure do have a whole lot of them lol :)
Ummmmm what else IDK guess I will try to sleep now!! They really need to make these registrations at 12:00 noon instead of 12:00 midnight this is killer on my brain!!!!! lol well good-night or good-morning what ever PEACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey guys!! My Mom emailed me this website to watch today. I thought I would share it with you all because I liked it so much. It made me cry . . . If you know me, you know it doesn't take a lot. Anyway, my Dad is/has been a basketball coach for the past 25 years and with an uncle with cerebral palsy and a cousin with CMV, these stories always hit close to home and touch my heart!! Let me know what you think! It kind of inspired me!! =]

http://www.cbssports.com/video/player/play/mayhem_south/_5_kza4_mAuDGlVRjz7PJ2dwar0LC9TE

-Kayla

Question to anyone about diagnosis.

About a year and a half ago I was diagnosed with Aspberger's Syndrome and since then things have gotten a lot better. I was wondering if a diagnosis has helped anyone with learning how to cope with their disorder. My mom and I have personal problems with my dad because us and my neuropsychologist believe he has it too but he refuses to get help. He does the same things I do to a worse extent. Has this ever happened to any of you?

Bluegrass Tech Center

Hello this is Eric Paycheck and went to do volunteer work at the Bluegrass Tech Center and i loved it. i helped make Questions for 8 different Berenstine Bears books. i plan on going back to do more work there. If you havent volunteerd yet its a lot of fun and you can earn valuable points towards a good end semester grade!

Thanks
Eric Paycheck

Volunteering at the BTC

Hello, everyone!

Mrs. White asked me to post on the blog about my experience volunteering at the Bluegrass Technology Center... To begin, I must say, if you could not attend our feild trip there, you could definitely put in your volunteer hours and get a better understanding of what is asked on the test this week. Secondly, the BTC does sooo much for the community and they really work so hard at what they do, so a few hours out of our busy schedules to give back to them would be a wonderful thing for all of us to do. If you're nervous about the type of things you'll be doing... don't be. Of all the students, I may be the one who has had the least exposure to special education students, so I was terrified of what they would ask me to do. But in the end, all I had to do was "data grab" from children's books and enter them into a database. And, Ms. Sharon will show you exactly how to do your job before you begin. So guys, pleaseeee take this opportunity to give back to the BTC for all of their hard work.

Thanks, everyone! :)

Test 3

Hey I was wandering if anyone else can access test 3. I went in and tried to look at it and it wasn't unders the test links like the others. Thought maybe I might have missed something.

Welcome to Dawn to the Blog

Dawn has agreed to blog and answer any questions you might have! Feel free to comment here for start a new post! I appreciate Dawn coming and bringing Jack to class. It helps all of us understand much better the special gifts and abilities children with intellectual and developmental delays bring to the classroom.

The specific examples of Jack's work with semantics and sight word cards was a great connection for us. The video of Jack reading demonstrated that reading IS a realistic expectation for children with intellectual delays. Another REAL WORLD connection was the idea of speech acts and how Jack has grown developmentally this year in this area. So many ways we could learn from Jack and our understanding of children is greater because of our time with him!

Thanks, Jack! Thanks, Dawn!

lang sample

Hey.. I'm sure someone has probaby asked this question already but I couldn't find it, I was wondering if the transcription that is dues wed. needed to have the utterances already counted or if that was something we would do later. Also I was wondering how many pages everyone else had of the language sample, I record A LOT and was trying to figure out when to stop.(I know every one will differ but I thought this might give me an idea) Thanks.

Observation Report

Hey Guys,

I was just wondering if anyone has received a grade for their observation reports that we turned in a few classes ago. I haven't got a grade for it yet, and I didn't know if I was the only one. Have a great week!!! =]

Kayla

SCEC meeting

Hey fellow classmates! This post is strictly to inform you that SCEC is having a meeting on April 7 at 5:00pm in the Jaggers room of Powell. SCEC stands for Special Council for Exceptional Children (the Special Ed club).

During this meeting, we will be holding a discussion board for parents of children who have Down Syndrome and voting for next year's officers. There will be food. So please come! I am hoping to be voted President and get a lot of things going next semester, so I'd like all the support that is out there.

Thank you!

Looking for SED260 text book

Does anyone know where I can get an SED260 text book. Do I have to special order it or is there a bookstore that carries it? Or does anyone have an extra one for sell? Let me know if there is anything I need to do. Thanks.