Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 7/25/2007 5:20:00 PM Author: Sue Subject: interventions Until you have been a parent for a child who has a disability, it is very judgemental that you would assume their behavior would be the parents fault. Maybe lables are overused, but without these lables, our children don't get the help they need to be sucessful in a class room. They do get the help they need at home. We have to hope and pray teachers will take their disability seriously, and not use blaming as a means to excuse our children from a rightful education all children deserve, irregardless of a disability they may have. Do your research Shawna-Autism is real, and it is almost at an epidemic growth rate-it is a neriological disability-not the fault of parents. ADD and ADHD are also real, and can be helped through diet and exercise, not only drugs. Before you decide to blame parents for these types of conditions, why don't you ask a doctor first. Yes-there are some bad parents out there, but unless you have spent time personally with them, at their home, like Tracie said, you have no way of konwing- you are judging. Now-who has bad manners? Name: Email: Subject

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