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= = == == = Welcome to Aldine's Inclusion/Special Education Collaboration Center: = **We've created this WIKI to have a place for special education teachers from Aldine ISD to collaborate. This page is here to provide teachers the opportunity to share ideas, resources, and ask/answer questions to others in the district. Please invite other teachers that you think would benefit from this page. If something you have implemented in your classroom is working, please share as it can help us all become more effective in the classroom. We have a couple different pages to organize our resources. To navigate, look at the top right of the screen.**

 **Documentation** - Here you will find all of the FUN :) paper work that we are responsible for as a speducator.
 * Useful Links** - Here you will find internet resources for any aspect of being a speducator including classroom materials, professional development, description of RTI, inclusion in the school, and behavior management.

Please visit these pages and post any materials you come across that may be useful to others. = =

" Autism itself is not the enemy... the barriers to development that are included with autism are the enemy. The retardation that springs from a lack of development is the enemy. The sensory problems that are often themselves the barriers are the enemy. These things are not part of who the child is... they are barriers to who the child is meant to be, according to the developmental blueprint. Work with the child's strengths to overcome the weaknesses, and work within the autism, not against it, to overcome the developmental barriers. " -- Frank Klein, autistic

__ [|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_r3KkRK2h4] __ Approximately 15% of the United States population has a learning disability. These famous faces do...proof that a learning disability does not interfere with success! Although many of these people never received help for their disability, they found success despite the odds.
 * Here is an AMAZING and inspirational story I thought you all would enjoy!**


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 * David Beckham** - David suffers from OCD and it manifests itself through constant cleanliness and perfection of all that is around him. Anything out of order is enough to cause a conflict and must be attended to immediately. Examples of this complete order is that everything must be in pairs, if there are three books on a table one must be added, or one must be removed. Only 2% of the population suffer from this strong OCD.


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 * Dan Ackroyd** - Aykroyd was born on Dominion Day at the Ottawa General Hospital in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Dan was diagnosed with tourette's and asperger syndromes at an early age, but the symptoms seem to have disappeared when he was around 14. The diagnosis of Asperger syndrome did not exist in the 1960s, when Aykroyd was a preteen. It involved mostly grunting and physical tics through nervousness.


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 * Geri Jewell** - Comedian and Actress. Appeared on The Facts of Life television show. Geri Jewell (b. September 13, 1956, Buffalo, New York) is an actor and comedian born with cerebral palsy. She is most famous for her roles on the television program The Facts of Life. and on HBO's Deadwood. Geri brings to her presentations personal experience of having her behavior and actions misunderstood because of her cerebral palsy. Geri Jewell is said to be a pioneer for comedians with disabilities.


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 * Albert Einstein** - (March 14, 1879 ? April 18, 1955) Being one of the most important great minds of his century Albert Einstein was then known to suffer from dyslexia mainly because of his bad memory and his constant failure to memorize the simplest of things. He would not remember the months in the year yet he would succeed in solving some of the most complicated mathematical formulas of the time without any trouble. He may have never learned how to properly tie his shoelaces but his scientific contributions and theories still have a major effect on all of todays current knowledge of science.


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 * Cher** - (Born May 20, 1946) Cher was a fatherless child and was most of the time very poor. Her mother tried to make money by singing and acting which ultimately brought Cher to follow into her footsteps. Due to dyslexia cher decided she would quit school and try to take some acting lessons in Los Angeles to finally do what she loved. One day while at the renowned Aldo's Coffee Shop her life changed upon meeting Sonny Bono, which was at the time successful in show business. They eventually made songs together and through fantastic duos with Sonny. The beginning of Cher's lifetime career was at birth.


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 * Walt Disney** - Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901 ? December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Disney is notable as one of the most influential and innovative figures in the field of entertainment during the twentieth century. Walt Disney had dyslexia, which is a learning disorder characterized by reading difficulties. While Walt Disney was attending high school he also went to the Academy of Fine Arts. This caused him to have double the school work than an average student on top of the fact that he also dealt with being dyslexic.


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 * Winston Churchill** - Churchill described himself as having a //"[|**speech impediment**]",// which he consistently worked to overcome. After many years, he finally stated, //"My impediment is no hindrance."// Although the Stuttering Foundation of America has claimed that Churchill stammered, the Churchill Centre has concluded that he lisped. Churchill's impediment may also have been cluttering, which would fit more with his lack of attention to unimportant details and his very secure ego. According to several sources Winston Churchill was not dyslexic and had no learning disability whatsoever. In his autobiography he played up his low grades at Harrow, undoubtedly to convince readers, and possibly himself, how much he had overcome; but in this he exaggerated. He was actually quite good at subjects he enjoyed and in fact won several school prizes.