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Understanding Seizure Types, Causes, and Connections to Stress and Brain Injury: Connecting Students’ Sensory and Neurological Functioning with School Learning, Socialization, and Disabilities (Part III)

In this third Blog, we discussed the types and impact of seizures on students’ learning and engagement in school. We especially focused on (a) the root causes and brain locations of the seizures cover...

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Differentiating Headaches and Four Different Types of Migraines: Connecting Students’ Sensory and Neurological Functioning with School Learning, Socialization, and Disabilities (Part II)

Part II of this Blog Series explains the differences between common headaches and migraines, highlighting how migraines are a distinct neurological condition with more severe and complex symptoms. Blo...

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Connecting Students’ Sensory and Neurological Functioning with School Learning, Socialization, and Disabilities: A Primer on Vision, Hearing, and Respiratory/Nasal Functioning (Part I)

Blog introduces a multi-part series examining how biological conditions affect students' school success. This Part I focuses on vision, hearing, and respiratory/nasal functioning, emphasizing that edu...

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Repelling a Wolf Attack on Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973: Protecting Everyone When Chance Events Result in Life-Defining Disabilities

This Blog highlights how Section 504 protects individuals from discrimination based on disability, emphasizing that disabilities often arise from chance events and that anyone could potentially need 5...

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Breaking Down the Wall Between General and Special Education Teachers in Our Schools: How Organizational Missteps Create Classroom Barriers

This Blog discusses the institutionalized wall between General Education and Special Education Teachers that has existed since Students with Disabilities were fully included in our nation’s public sch...

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The Seven Sure Solutions for Continuous Student and School Success: “If You Don’t Know Where You’re Going, Any Road Will Get You There” (Part I)

Blog discusses the Seven Sure Solutions to school improvement and students success as significant numbers of students continue to academically under-perform and demonstrate social, emotional, and beha...

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