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"About This Wiki" - source change

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:07:52 +0000

Page: About This Wiki (about-the-wikicourse)
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Greetings and welcome to the Special Education Wiki The site began at American University during the Summer of 2006. Students in a foundations of special education course participated in three...

"Welcome to the Introduction to Special Education Wiki" - source change, title change

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:27:33 +0000

Page: Welcome to the Introduction to Special Education Wiki (system:join)
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By: drsarah

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Welcome to the Special Education Wiki. This wiki will be used to develop academic discussions about special education, including definitions, legal issues, technology, and the role of special...

"Welcome!" - source change

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:07:57 +0000

Page: Welcome! (start)
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Welcome to the Special Ed wiki. This wiki is used to develop and facilitate discussions about special education, including definitions, legal issues, technology, and the role of special education...

"About This Wiki" - source change, title change

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:36:20 +0000

Page: About This Wiki (about-the-wikicourse)
Current revision number: 38
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By: drsarah

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Greetings and welcome to the Special Education Wiki The site began at American University during the Summer of 2006. Students in a foundations of special education course participated in three...

"Groups" - source change

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:07:36 +0000

Page: Groups (groups)
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By: drsarah

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The Groups Page will provide users with the opportunity to join a smaller, subgroup of students as you participate in the course. We will have 15 people per group. The idea is that you can engage...

"Exceptionalities" - source change

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:42:55 +0000

Page: Exceptionalities (exceptionalities)
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An Overview of Exceptionalities1 According to the National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICHCY), 6.6 million U.S. children received some sort of special education...

"Exceptionalities" - source change

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:41:38 +0000

Page: Exceptionalities (exceptionalities)
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An Overview of Exceptionalities1 According to the National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICHCY), 6.6 million U.S. children received some sort of special education...

"About This Wiki" - source change

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:35:59 +0000

Page: About This Wiki (about-the-wikicourse)
Current revision number: 37
Date changed: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:35:59 +0000
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By: drsarah

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Greetings and welcome to the Special Education Wiki The site began at American University during the Summer of 2006. Students in a foundations of special education course participated in three...

"About This Wiki" - source change

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:40:10 +0000

Page: About This Wiki (about-the-wikicourse)
Current revision number: 36
Date changed: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:40:10 +0000
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Change comments: Revised this page to be the welcome page for the whole site, after making it public. Took out references to the Book Talk assignments.
By: drsarah

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Greetings and welcome to the Special Education Wiki The site began at American University during the Summer of 2006. Students in a foundations of special education course participated in three...

"About This Wiki" - source change

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:39:33 +0000

Page: About This Wiki (about-the-wikicourse)
Current revision number: 35
Date changed: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:39:33 +0000
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Change comments: Revised this page to be the welcome page for the whole site, after making it public. Took out references to the Book Talk assignments.
By: drsarah

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Greetings and welcome to the Special Education Wiki The site began at American University during the Summer of 2006. Students in a foundations of special education course participated in three...

"Visual Impairments" - source change

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:21:24 +0000

Page: Visual Impairments (visual-impairments)
Current revision number: 60
Date changed: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:21:24 +0000
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By: csabados

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What Are Visual Impairments?1 The term visual impairments describes a wide variety of conditions that affect vision abilities. We use the term to denote mild to most severe vision loss, rather than...

"Spectacle Wearing Compliance In Children" - new page

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:20:05 +0000

Page: Spectacle Wearing Compliance In Children (spectacle-wearing-compliance-in-children)
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Date changed: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:20:05 +0000
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By: csabados

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Study In the study above, researchers looked at the rate that students with visual impairments in Mexico actually complied with wearing these glasses. What the researchers discovered is that is a...

"Aspenger's Syndrome" - new page

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:07:24 +0000

Page: Aspenger's Syndrome (aspenger-s-syndrome)
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By: AngelaR

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Mainstreaming Students with Aspenger's Syndrome Aspenger’s syndrome is a disorder on the higher end of the autism spectrum. Many students with Aspenger’s (AS) are mainstreamed into regular...

"Developmental Delays" - source change

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:06:34 +0000

Page: Developmental Delays (developmental-delays)
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By: csabados

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dropping-the-term-crack-babies What Are Developmental Delays?1 Any discussion of students with developmental delays requires a clarification of terminology. The terms mental retardation and brain...

"Einstein Syndrome" - new page

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:05:52 +0000

Page: Einstein Syndrome (einstein-syndrome)
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By: csabados

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[http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell083001.asp] In this article, Thomas Sowell reviews his research on what is termed the "Einstein Syndrome." Essentially, Sowell discusses the many famous...

"Hearing Disabilities" - source change

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:45:10 +0000

Page: Hearing Disabilities (hearing-disabilities)
Current revision number: 61
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By: csabados

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What Are Hearing Disabilities?1 Hearing loss affects a student’s ability to speak and to understand spoken language. A person with deafness (persons first language) cannot process any linguistic...

"Shared Benefits For The Hearing And Hearing Impaired" - file action

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:44:15 +0000

Page: Shared Benefits For The Hearing And Hearing Impaired (shared-benefits-for-the-hearing-and-hearing-impaired)
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By: csabados

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As Sandra Briggle points out in her article: "Language and Literacy Development in Children Who Are Deaf or Hearing Impaired," there are many strategies in literacy that are beneficial to both...

"Shared Benefits For The Hearing And Hearing Impaired" - new page

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:43:18 +0000

Page: Shared Benefits For The Hearing And Hearing Impaired (shared-benefits-for-the-hearing-and-hearing-impaired)
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Date changed: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:43:18 +0000
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By: csabados

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As Sandra Briggle points out in her article: "Language and Literacy Development in Children Who Are Deaf or Hearing Impaired," there are many strategies in literacy that are beneficial to both...

"Communication Disorders" - source change

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:31:07 +0000

Page: Communication Disorders (communication-disorders)
Current revision number: 74
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By: csabados

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What Are Communication Disorders?1 Communication disorders include disorders of speech and language. To many people, the terms communication, speech, and language mean essentially the same thing,...

"Communication Disorder Vs Language Proficiency" - file action

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:28:57 +0000

Page: Communication Disorder Vs Language Proficiency (communication-disorder-vs-language-proficiency)
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As the number of ELL students increase, it will become increasingly difficult for teachers to diagnose which students suffer from a communication disorder and which students merely are struggling...

"Communication Disorder Vs Language Proficiency" - new page

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:28:24 +0000

Page: Communication Disorder Vs Language Proficiency (communication-disorder-vs-language-proficiency)
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As the number of ELL students increase, it will become increasingly difficult for teachers to diagnose which students suffer from a communication disorder and which students merely are struggling...

"Emotional And Behavioral Disorders" - source change

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:17:40 +0000

Page: Emotional And Behavioral Disorders (emotional-and-behavoioral-disorders)
Current revision number: 58
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By: csabados

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What Are Emotional and Behavioral Disorders?1 Students with emotional and behavioral disorders have serious and persistent difficulties that can be described by a psychiatric diagnosis. When...

"Drug Abuse And Prevention" - new page

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:16:29 +0000

Page: Drug Abuse And Prevention (drug-abuse-and-prevention)
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By: csabados

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Teen drug use and abuse is a problem, especially as people find new ways of making and distributing the drug cheaply ("Cheese" and Crystal Meth). www.teen-drug-abuse.org lists the following as risk...

"Learning Disabilities" - source change

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:54:30 +0000

Page: Learning Disabilities (learning-disabilities)
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assistive-technology-and-dyslexiawhen-moThe Basics of Learning Disabilities**1 Learning disabilities are most often defined by describing a discrepancy between ability and performance. Children...

"Working With Nonverbal Learning Disabilities" - new page

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:53:31 +0000

Page: Working With Nonverbal Learning Disabilities (working-with-nonverbal-learning-disabilities)
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Nonverbal learning disabilities affect both a child’s educational and social sphere. In the educational sphere, nonverbal learning disabilities can mean that a student has poor psychomotor...

"Multiple Disabilities" - source change

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:51:07 +0000

Page: Multiple Disabilities (multiple-disabilities)
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Students with severe or multiple disabilities face many challenges in life, let alone in school. While these students generally share similar qualities - difficulty in speech, communication and...

"Physical Disabilities" - source change

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:46:31 +0000

Page: Physical Disabilities (physical-disabilities)
Current revision number: 71
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What Are Physical Disabilities?1 The term physical disabilities is broad and covers a range of disabilities and health issues, including both congenital and acquired disabilities. Within that range...

"Multiple Disabilities" - source change

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:44:58 +0000

Page: Multiple Disabilities (multiple-disabilities)
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Students with severe or multiple disabilities face many challenges in life, let alone in school. While these students generally share similar qualities - difficulty in speech, communication and...

"Multiple Disabilities" - new page

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:43:50 +0000

Page: Multiple Disabilities (multiple-disabilities)
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Date changed: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:43:50 +0000
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Students with severe or multiple disabilities face many challenges in life, let alone in school. While these students generally share similar qualities - difficulty in speech, communication and...

"Using Technology To Assist Gifted Students With Motor Impaired Hands" - file action

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:36:44 +0000

Page: Using Technology To Assist Gifted Students With Motor Impaired Hands (using-technology-to-assist-gifted-students-with-motor-impair)
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Date changed: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:36:44 +0000
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With broadband Internet access finally making its way to many rural areas, students who live in the country are increasingly able to take advantage of this technology to enhance their learning...