01-14-12

Autism » Map of Michigan Parent Support Options: Autism Spectrum Disorders updated.

01-05-12

Breaking News and Children At-Risk » Humble and Hopeful: Welcoming First-Generation Poor and Working-class Students to College - Students who are the first in their family to enter higher education join a rarified and often mystifying culture of rules, rites, and rituals. A first-generation working-class college student who became a faculty member offers his insights and recommendations after forty years in the academy.

Autism » Map of Michigan Parent Support Options: Autism Spectrum Disorders updated.

Breaking News and Asperger's Syndrome » NC School Offers Special Curriculum for Students with Asperger's -The Asperger Connection School, reportedly the first school in the country designed for students with Asperger's syndrome, opened in August 2011 in Pikeville, N.C. The school offers a computer-based approach to learning with students working on laptops who are allowed to progress at their own pace. The screen time is supplemented with three outdoor breaks each day and weekly horseback-riding therapy to help develop students' balance and gross-motor skills. A second location for the school is set to open in Durham, N.C., on Jan. 9, and organizers say plans for a third location are in the works.

01-02-12