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		<title>Special Education: My Perspectives on the Role of a Trustee by Dave Colburn</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathryn Burke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Canada, K-12 education is a provincial jurisdiction. The highest level of authority is the provincial Minister of Education. With the exception of New Brunswick which has abolished Boards, the highest local level of authority is the School Board School Boards consist of locally elected Trustees. A majority of Trustees determine the actions and positions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talking to Parents of Children with Exceptional Learning Needs: A Parent’s Top Ten List for Teachers by Kathryn Burke</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some teachers find me a bit frightening! Well perhaps it is not me personally, but people like me – a parent of a child with exceptional learning needs. It is not hard to imagine that it could be difficult for some teachers to muster up the courage, particularly if new to teaching, to share their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Pieces of Advice for University from one Student with LD to another….. by Denise Goegan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathryn Burke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s that time once again&#8230; the changing colours of the leaves, the smell of freshly sharpened pencils, coil note books without a single mark inside and for a number of students… a new school. Going to a new school can be quite daunting especially when that school is a university with tens of thousands of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School Boards and Special Education: Making the Connection by Kathryn Burke</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathryn Burke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had lunch with a colleague yesterday, who is, to put it mildly, a sophisticated political operative. He has amazing insight into matters pertaining to the political process. I thoroughly enjoy speaking with him about democracy, citizen engagement, and the evolving nature of our society. Both of us commented on how many people feel disenfranchised. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Myth-Busters! Blasting Apart the Dyslexia Myth by Michele Pentyliuk</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathryn Burke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Put up your hand if think that people with dyslexia have difficulties with letter and word reversals.  From where I am sitting, it looks to me like most of you have your hand raised.  I can’t really see you of course, but my experience tells me that the majority of people, even teachers, believe that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Deadly Implications of Not Keeping up with Research by Kathryn Burke</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathryn Burke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently attended a conference on Brain Development and Learning.  I often describe myself as a &#8220;sociologist gone bad!&#8221; I am not a clinician nor am I an educator. My interest in the conference was to learn more about emerging research on learning, and brain physiology associated with learning disabilities. While at the conference, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labels, Boxes and People with Learning Disabilities &#8211; Labels Have Their Uses, but Also Their Abuses by Dr. Peter Flom</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathryn Burke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Flom has his Ph.D in Psychometrics from Fordham University and an MA in Special Education from New York University. He has his own consulting firm where he specializes in helping graduate students and researchers in psychology, education, economics and the social sciences with all aspects of statistical analysis. He is also a parent, husband, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Role of School Trustees and Special Education: Ostriches that hide their head in the sand don’t get the big picture by Kathryn Burke</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathryn Burke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I helped organize a panel discussion on special education that took place this week. The target audience was people in our city running in the fall election as school trustees. I am one of a small group of active parent special education advocates within our local school district. With the impending election, we all had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Questions I want my School Board to Answer: Inquiring Minds want to Know by Kathryn Burke</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathryn Burke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems like Einstein really was onto something with the theory of relativity. Time really is relative. Our son, affected by learning disabilities and ADHD, has been in the school system for a decade. Sometimes that decade feels like it has gone by in a heartbeat. At other times, I feel like time is stretched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mountain of Sensory Overload and Non Verbal Learning Disabilities by Dr. Peter Flom</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathryn Burke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Flom has his Ph.D in Psychometrics from Fordham University and an MA in Special Education from New York University. He has his own consulting firm where he specializes in helping graduate students and researchers in psychology, education, economics and the social sciences with all aspects of statistical analysis. He is also a parent, husband, [...]]]></description>
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