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MOAFAA: Miller Park Center The Director of the Miller Park Center is a substitute teacher.  Those are her only credentials Educator Credentials: Report Date:  May 22, 2014 Name:  JULIAN, REBECCA L       Educator ID:  506625 Degree: Certification Subject Area/Grade Level Classification Effective Expiration Status CONTENT SUBSTITUTE SUBSTITUTE CERT 08/01/2010 08/01/2014 ISSUED Content Expertise Content Area Year Source No records can be found matching search criteria.

2 arrested for abuse at VA autism center - NBC12.com - Richmond, VA News YORK CO. VA (WWBT) - A teacher and teaching assistant at a Virginia autism center are accused of abusing a child with special needs and trying to cover it up. The York-Poquoson Sheriff's Office arrested Diane "Renee" Smith and Darcie Badami, who both work at the New Horizons Center for Autism and Yorktown. The school is part of Yorktown Middle School. A staff member at the school heard a child screaming in a classroom on Friday and went to see what was going on. She told deputies she saw a teaching assistant chasing a 13-year-old student with special needs around the room. The woman said she saw the teaching assistant catch the child, then begin sticking the boy several times in the arm with a push pin. The teaching assistant then lifted his shirt and used a cleaning wipe on the wounds, causing even more pain, according to the Sheriffs Office. The witness said she heard the teaching assistant and ...

Poverty and academic struggle go hand-in-hand : News This is why our district looks good on paper.  They have a lower percentage of students in poverty.  If they had to face the struggles that KC did they wouldn't fare any better.  This is just my opinion, but our test scores show that we are failing these students, too.  We just don't have as many of them.  Therefore, our district can boast about their success when they actually are just blessed with students that aren't facing the same issues.   Brad Busby has seen the effects of poverty rise in the Riverview Gardens School District in the 15 years he’s been a counselor there, and he believes it has hurt student success. “Hunger. Exhaustion,” he said, ticking off the circumstances that confront pupils daily at Glasgow Elementary School. First-graders with post-traumatic stress disorder. Children whose families have faced multiple evictions. “Sometimes the parents aren’t there at night,” he continued. ...

Kindergarten teacher: “I was furious” - 13abc.com Toledo (OH) News, Weather and Sports We have new details in the case of the kindergarten teacher in Hancock County who was caught on surveillance video in a shocking confrontation with her six-year-old student. It happened at Riverdale Elementary School in Mount Blanchard which is south of Findlay. On Thursday 13abc obtained school district documents which show the kindergarten teacher Barb Williams admits she was furious, she pushed him, and says the boy was pushing her over the edge. It’s the school surveillance video making national headlines. "Why isn't this teacher behind bars?" asked Nancy Grace on HLN Wednesday night. The video shows Ian Nelson and his teacher Barb Williams on Wednesday, May 7th.   Ian walked down the hallway during computer class to go to the bathroom.  Williams stopped him as he walked out, lifting him off the floor against the wall. In the documents, Williams told Riverdale Elementary School pr...

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People with milder forms of autism struggle as adults — SFARI.org - Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative Contrary to popular assumption, people diagnosed with so-called mild forms of autism don’t fare any better in life than those with severe forms of the disorder.  That’s the conclusion of a new study that suggests that even individuals with normal intelligence and language abilities struggle to fit into society because of their social and communication problems. In fact, people diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS) are no more likely to marry or have a job than those with more disabling forms of autism, according to a Norwegian study published online in June in the  Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 1 . Early intervention has the potential to alter this trajectory, say experts.  But until today’s children with autism reach maturity, it will be hard to say how much behavioral intervention at a young age ca...

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