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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

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Partners in Policymaking programs accepting Applications for Class of 2013


21,000 Partners Graduates in the United States...

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Partners in Policymaking teachs parents and self-advocates the power of advocacy to change the way people with disabilities are supported, viewed, taught, live and work.



Inquire with your state's Developmental Disabilities Council to submit an application for Partners in Policymaking. Each state, territory and country Partners  in Policymaking Program has a Classroom Coordinator.  Check this list for 'Active' Partners in Policymaking Programs. There are 56 State Councils on Developmental Disabilities (SCDD), one in each state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Marianas, and American Samoa. 

Partners in Policymaking Celebrated 25 Years on May 12, 2012!
Twenty five years ago, the Minnesota Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities created a ground-breaking, innovative training program called Partners in Policymaking® to teach parents and self-advocates the power of advocacy to change the way people with disabilities are supported, viewed, taught, live and work.  During the past two decades, important issues have been confronted and dramatic changes have been made.


Remember, apply for the  Partners in Policymaking Program with a Classroom Coordinator.  Check this list for 'Active' Partners in Policymaking Program or through your  State DD Council.




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"Partners in Living" is a seven-hour self-directed e-learning course created to help people with developmental disabilities, their parents, family members and friends, educators and service providers understand the important concepts of self-determination, family support, community living and assistive technology. Go to www.partnersinpolicymaking.com/living to review the course.

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Administration for Children and FamiliesFYI:

To improve and increase services to and assure that individuals with developmental disabilities have opportunities to make their own choices, contribute to society, have supports to live independently, and are free of abuse, neglect, financial and sexual exploitation and violations of their legal and human rights.
What are developmental disabilities?
Developmental disabilities are severe, life-long disabilities attributable to mental and/or physical impairments which manifest themselves before the age of 22 years and are likely to continue indefinitely. They result in substantial limitations in three or more of the following areas:
  • self-care
  • comprehension and language
  • skills (receptive and expressive language)
  • learning
  • mobility
  • self-direction
  • capacity for independent living
  • economic self-sufficiency
  • ability to function independently without coordinated services (continuous need for individually planned and coordinated services).
Persons with developmental disabilities use individually planned and coordinated services and supports of their choosing (e.g., housing, employment, education, civil and human rights protection, health care) to live in and to participate in activities in the community

For more info. about Developmental Disabilities, refer to the Administration on Developmental Disabilities






   National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities
The Developmental Disabilities Act charges Councils to identify the most pressing needs of people with developmental disabilities in their State or Territory and to develop innovative and cost-effective ways to meet these needs in a manner that upholds the human and civil value of people with developmental disabilities.



May 23, 2011 ... For the first time in over a decade the CDC is releasing data on the number of children with developmental disabilities, reporting that diagnoses ...
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Monday, July 30, 2012

Putting theory of mind in its place: psychological explanations of the socio-emotional-communicative impairments in autistic spectrum disorder


[Pay attention to this topic of  'Theory of Mind' (ToM) as it relates to the Autism Spectrum.   This blog was prepared last week and scheduled for posting tonight.  See below for another article that was released just this afternoon.  Of course, online searches yields more references.]



Jill Boucher, Department of Psychology, City University, London EC1V 0HB, UK. Email: Jill.Boucher.1@city.ac.uk

http://aut.sagepub.com/content/16/3/226.abstract?rss=1

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Problems with Theory of Mind and Neurotypical Autism Experts

Landon Bryce at thAutcast.com
*San Francisco Chronicle* autism blogger Laura Shumaker today presents this quote from Dr. Susan Ashely's 2006 book *The Asperger’s Answer Book: Professional Answers to 275 of the Top Questions Parents Ask* as an authoritative, neutral statement on theory of mind:Theory of Mind (ToM)is the ability to make attributions. Attributions are the thoughts we create about others in order to explain what happens in our interactions with and observations of them. No one actually teaches us to make attributions; we just do it automatically. For the most part, we can make good guesses at som...more » 


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Sequestration & Special Education

Special Education Could Suffer Billion-Dollar Automatic Cut - On Special Education - Education Week


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"The sequestration will put at risk all that we have accomplished in education.I don't think we have a lot of flexibility here," Duncan said of potential cuts. "Regardless of impact,...it's a horrendous way to think of budget choices." U.S.Education Secretary Arnie Duncan U.S.Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education and Related Services. [Sequestration & Special Education - enjoyhi5autism.bl...

'EnjoyHi5Autism' pinned  an excerpt of U.S. Secretary of Education Arnie Duncan's testimony in 'Educating & Learning & Teaching' board  on  Pinterest.  [Click the links to Like, repin or comment.]


How Sequestration could affect your child's Education -- 'Testimony of Secretary Duncan before the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations Subcommittee | U.S. Department of Education '

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*"*Sequestration sends a signal that the United States is backtracking on its commitment to reform and its long-standing promise to promote equity through Title I and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA." *Fiscal year 2013 is a little more than two months away and sequestration kicks in three months after that on January 2nd -- so it's critically important that we – and the American people – fully understand the consequences of sequestration and take steps to avoid it now.* *The sequestration will put at risk all that we've accomplished in education and weaken ... more »


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The United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

The Senate committee responsible for writing each of the 13 annual federal appropriations (spending) bills.

Committee Approves FY13 Labor HHS and Financial Services Appropriations Bills ... Committee on Appropriations · Room S 128, The Capitol, Washington, DC 20510 ...




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    Budget Process in the U.S. Department of Education

    In purely financial terms, the Federal budget that comes out each year includes ... Preparation of the budget begins in the Department of Education during May, when the ...


    Sequestration Needed for Federal Education Programs | Neal ...
    Sequestration Needed for Federal Education Programs. by Neal McCluskey Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies - Author: Neal McCluskey, Published: 2012-07-25, Type: Congressional Testimony - This testimony was delivered on July 25, 2012.

    Education Budget ... last week toward approving a budget for fiscal ... triggered cuts (called ‘sequestration’) are set to reduce the fiscal ...

    HOW THE POTENTIAL 2013 ACROSS-THE-BOARD CUTS IN THE DEBT ...
    ... programs such as defense, education, national ... recent memorandum, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that a sequestration ... appropriations bills for the fiscal year ...

    Sequestration Creates Fog of Fiscal Uncertainty | Education Trust
    Congress only has five months left to avert the automatic spending cuts scheduled to hit the federal budget in January. That’s when sequestration, the austerity ...
    ... House recently passed a fiscal year 2013 budget ... That makes the pending sequestration the biggest uncertainty in the fiscal ... the blog for the Federal Education Budget ...



    Sequestration could spur furloughs at Education ...


    By Keith BieryGolick & Ruben Gomez Federal News Radio Sequestration would force the Education Department to furlough many of its employees, the department's leader ...


    Federal Education Funding Sequestration Information

    Automatic spending cuts in the federal Budget Control Act of 2011 are scheduled to take effect January 2, 2013. Also known as sequestration, these automatic cuts will ...


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    What is Sequestration?

    Sequestration: A Glossary of Political Economy ... - Auburn University


    Sequestration. Originally a legal term referring generally to the act of valuable property being taken into custody by an agent of the court and locked away for safekeeping, usually to prevent the property from being disposed of or abused before a dispute over its ownership can be resolved. But the term has been adapted by Congress in more recent years to describe a new fiscal policy procedure originally provided for in the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Act of 1985 -- an effort to reform Congressional voting procedures so as to make the size of the Federal government's budget deficit a matter of conscious choice rather than simply the arithmetical outcome of a decentralized appropriations process in which no one ever looked at the cumulative results until it was too late to change them. If the dozen or so appropriation bills passed separately by Congress provide for total government spending in excess of the limits Congress earlier laid down for itself in the annual Budget Resolution, and if Congress cannot agree on ways to cut back the total (or does not pass a new, higher Budget Resolution), then an "automatic" form of spending cutback takes place. This automatic spending cut is what is called "sequestration."



    Sequestration: What it Means and How Government Contractors ...


    The Budget Control Act of 2011 establishes a process, known as sequestration, whereby automatic, across-the-board spending cuts are scheduled to occur in January 2013. These cuts are currently slated to affect both mandatory and discretionary spending and are predicted to produce roughly $108 billion in annual spending reductions through 2021, split evenly between defense and non-defense accounts. This 90-minute webinar will provide a background of the sequestration process and an overview of the Budget Control Act of 2011 to help you understand the legal environment surrounding the Act. In tandem, it will address particular types of contract vehicles and contract actions that likely will or will not be affected by these cuts. 



    What is Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Act of 1985?



    GrammRudmanHollings Balanced Budget Act - Wikipedia, the ...


    The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (99th Congress, S.1702, Pub.L. 99-177, title II, December 12, 1985...
    Home > Committees Home > Committee and Subcommittee Membership > Committee on Appropriations : Committee Membership List. This report lists the current members of all ...

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    Sequestration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    In law, sequestration may refer to: Sequestration (law), the seizure of property Jury sequestration, the isolation of a jury in order to ensure they are not ...

    U.S. Senate: Legislation & Records Home > Appropriations

    The Senate then works with the House to pass all appropriations bills by October 1, the beginning of ... The Appropriations Committee was created in 1867. Learn the history ...
    www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/b_three_sections...


    U.S. Senate: Legislation & Records Home > Appropriations
    The Senate then works with the House to pass all appropriations bills by October 1, the beginning of ... The Appropriations Committee was created in 1867. Learn the history ...


    Idea Rebounds: Automatic Cuts to Curb Deficits - The New York Times




    May 15, 2011 – The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings act of 1985, for all its flaws, created a fiscal ... that eventually made deficit reduction possible, or so it seems now.






    .1613: Deficit Reduction Act of 2009 - U.S. Congress ...


    Aug 5, 2009 – Deficit Reduction Act of 2009 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to ...



    1985 Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act - Timeline ...


    Mar 7, 2011 – 1985 Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act ... Act of 1985, better known as "Gramm-Rudman Hollings," created a series of deficit ... It created a five -year deficit reduction plan, with decreasing deficit targets each ...


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    Rewriting the Fiscal Constitution: The Case of Gramm-Rudman ...

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    to the effectiveness of sequestration as a deficit-reduction strategy. As the ... as theGramm-Rudman-Hollings Act ("GRH") in an effort to stem the federal debt. ... The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, Pub. L. No.

    Yale Law School | Publications
    Rewriting the Fiscal Constitution: The Case of Gramm-Rudman-Hollings, 76 CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW 593 (1988) Comment: Federal Spending and the Deficit: Is a Constitutional ...

    "Rewriting the Fiscal Constitution: The Case of Gramm-Rudman ...

    Comments. Rewriting the Fiscal Constitution: The Case of Gramm-Rudman-Hollings, 76 CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW 593 (1988)







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    Printable Kids Sensory Activities List

    Printable Sensory Activity List


    'EnjoyHi5Autism' pinned this printable list of sensory activities on Pinterest board: Sensory relief

    A handy list of Sensory Integration Activities for Preschoolers: printable for easy reference.

    by Alissa Marquess on May 3, 2011Printable Kids Sensory Activities List

     I found many ideas for this list in The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun.

      If you are wondering more about this you can find loads of useful information as well as a symptoms checklist at: http://www.sensory-processing-disorder.com/
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    New stainless steel Swiss Army Medical Dog Tag Necklace.
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    The popular, boho-chic style of the wrap bracelet has finally made its way to the Lauren’s Hope collection with the Vintage Purple Medical ID Wrap Bracelet! This effortlessly easy look uses a single purple distressed strand and wraps around approximately 3 times for wrist sizes 7"-9". This wrap bracelet features lobster clasps at both ends which simply attach to your custom engraved medical ID tag to complete the look

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