Archive for August 2014
Traveling Abroad With a Disability
This week, we will be featuring an extraordinary young woman named Wendy Lu on KIT’s Inclusion Potluck. We are thrilled to share Wendy’s story with all of you. Wendy, who uses a tracheostomy tube due to vocal cord paralysis, spent her summer in China. She had an incredible experience that she was kind enough to share…
Read MoreMath: Not Just One Answer and One Way
Picture your very first Algebra class. You probably imagine silent students, with a few raising their hands to answer specific questions. Perhaps you picture your teacher writing a problem on the board, explaining it, and then giving you a problem set to practice yourself. That is the way math has been done for years, and that…
Read MoreSupporting Joe
This week, we are thrilled to welcome Janet Cabezut, a 4th grade teacher in northern California and graduate student at the University of San Diego, as our guest blogger. We hope you are as inspired by Janet’s perseverance and Joe’s success as we are! As an educator, my role is to provide a safe and engaging learning environment…
Read MoreDocument, Report, Support–Stepping Stones for Independence
Two summers ago, I worked at an inclusive camp as a one-on-one aide for a little boy with autism. At the beginning of the summer, all one-on-one counselors were trained in how to best support kids with special needs and the protocols for administering medications, writing incident reports, and more. As dry as some of this material…
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