New Site Feature — Featured Site

Featured Site:

 

A new item here at Why Not Fathers… Featured sites.  Before I add a site to our Links page we will feature it here for two weeks.

The first site is Fatherhood Is.  This site is written by a father of six month old twins.  His Five Stages Of Fatherhood are spot on in my opnion of their description of the levels of fatherhood.  It is a worthwhile read.

Cheers:
Carl

 

 

Related articles

• Fatherhood: a Gift and a Responsibility (familytreasure.org)
• Five Stages of Fatherhood (http://fatherhoodis.com/)
• Huffington Post replay of Five Stages of Fatherhood (huffingtonpost.com)

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Lost and Tired’s “Autism Help” app is here

Last night I published a mobile app version of the Community Autism Support Forums to the Google Play Market. The app is completely FREE and basically allows the same access to the forums as you would via your computer. This app will ONLY work for the Autism Support Forums here as Lost and Tire as it’s a branded app.

Now the Autism support you enjoy from the Community Autism Support Forums is available while on the go.

If you know someone that could benefit from our awesome support group all you need to tell them is to “search for the Autism Help app on the Google Play Store”. They can register for the forums directly from the Autism Help app itself. Super convenient.

Download to your Android device right now: Autism Help 

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LRE ~ Least Restrictive Environment ~ defined

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) section 1412-5 defines the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) in the following way:

In General, to the maximum extent appropriate, children with disabilities, including children in public and private institutions or other care facilities, are educated with children who are not disabled, and special classes, separate schooling, or other removal of children from the regular education environment occurs only when the nature or severity of the disability of a child is such that education in regular classes with the use of supplementary aids and services cannot be achieved satisfactorily.

Wrightslaw further states “The law takes a commonsense approach to this issue: children with disabilities should be educated with children who are not disabled “to the maximum extent appropriate”.” (Wrightslaw, 2ed, 2011).  The question that then remains is who defines “maximum extent appropriate”?  Things are not so clear in this area.

Parents and education professionals will disagree on the definition of “maximum extent  appropriate”.  The key to successful planning and implementation of the Individual Education Plan (IEP) would be a joint effort to determine what the definition is and understand going into the process what markers will be followed to determine success of the LRE.

Is it possible for education professionals and parents to come to an agreement regarding the definition of LRE?  The answer should be yes.  Not only are the educational rights of the child in question at risk, but the educational rights of their classmates are at risk as well.  LRE’s are unique to each students situation.  Without understanding fully, the disability that the student has, education professionals and parents will both do a disservice to the child’s educational rights.  It would be beneficial to include medical personnel on the IEP team.

References

Wright, Pam & Pete, 2011 Wrightslaw – From Emotions to Advocacy 2nd Ed.