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		<title>Bullying and FAPE</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that failing to address bullying can be the cause of schools having to pay for private placement of students with Learning Disabilities? Bullying has justified parents&#8217; decisions to move their children to private schools and seek reimbursement for tuition. So, bullying isn&#8217;t only something that educators should address because it&#8217;s the right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mildred Wood inducted to hall of fame</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mildred Hope Fisher Wood, long-time teacher and advocate for Learning Disabilities, was inducted into the Iowa Commission on the Status of Women Hall of Fame 27 August 2011. Ms. Wood, who began teaching in 1939, later became a speech therapist, and eventually migrated to higher education, was 91 years old at the time of recognition. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LD and sports</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing for the Los Angeles (CA, US) Times, Matt Stevens leads an extended story about the importance of sports in society with a section on Julius English, a 39-year-old behavior therapist who couldn&#8217;t read until he was 10 but developed strong basketball skills during his adolescence and now uses those skills as part of his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NCLD released its annual analysis of LD</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Center on Learning Disabilities (NCLD), a US advocacy organization, has released its annual report about its views of the policy situation for individuals with Learning Disabilities. NCLD calls the report The State of Learning Disabilities: Facts, Trends, and Indicators and says that it includes US national and state-by-state data about Learning Disabilities and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Testing fraud of a different sort</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a puzzling case of a student who appears to have had problems throughout the primary grades and did not get help until fourth grade, Liz Ditz asks the question, How Often Does This Happen? Teacher accused of testing fraud to avoid special education referral for her student. Not until the parents had pushed for [...]]]></description>
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