Welcome to the 25th issue of the first year of the newsletter for Special Education Today. This issue has a few house-keeping notes, a listing of recent posts, and a little bit of gratuitous commentary. Thanks for reading!

Subscribers

The list of free subscribers includes greater than 300 addresses—double what it was in June. If you got an email notice about this issue of the SET newsletter, you’ve most likely already subscribed. If you’re not subscribed, please join in the frivolity!

Also, please use the “share” button at the end of this newsletter to let others who may not be subscribers know about the community. I usually put a share button on individual posts, so readers can help disseminate specific content, too. Just click those “share” buttons and let colleagues, pals, and others (?) know that they can read the content directly.

Flashes of the electrons

Sheesh, folks have been chipping into the community recently. Thank you all for reading and interacting (some of you more than once). I hope my listing here doesn’t overlook any contributors (did I miss Jose B. last week?)!

Hat tips to these folks!

• Jane B.

• Tina C.

• Clay K.

• Michael K.

• Nancy M.

• Zuhar R.

• Julie T.

Over on Twitter, I remember seeing some retweets and such. Facebook also has some posts, as I hear. Same is true with LinkedIn. Thanks to all you social-media connected peeps who are helping share the news.

Current Contents

This week, you can find new articles about various topics. They are pretty wide ranging, including a b’day celebration and the first entry in a fiction series.

There are only four entries this week, but please click ‘em and read ‘em up!

1. IDEA is 46!—What was it like when the law that guides services for students with disabilities passed?

2. Free Engelmann book—What can we learn from Zig Engelmann’s work?

3. Let the speculation begin about why autism rates have increased!—Is it in the water? The air? The genes? The blood? The food?

4. Jamie’s committee hears from the curriculum company representative—What do you want to know about curricula?

Commentary

I’m still planning additional features for the magazine. It’ll take a while to get them completed, ‘cause I’m juuust slooooow. I’m stuck in granny low in a lot of mud.

Those posts this week about IDEA and autism rates took a lot out of me! I’d say that each required 6-8 hours. In the days of typewriters and secretaries, I used to budget ~30 hours to write an article (given we already had the data, analyses, etc., and not counting down time while co-authors reviewed the drafts); this was why I followed Jerry Patterson’s model, writing and keeping my office door closed all morning. Assembling these little posts is a lot quicker and I work on them throughout the days, but chasing sources, checking accuracy, and etc. is still quite consuming.

But, I’ll tell you what (haha): Generating this content must have some rewards associated with doing it. I keep finding myself working on this content. I hope you like it!

I also hope that you remember to encourage your friends and community to be safe and, especially, that you promote effective teaching (meaning, teach your children well)!

JohnL

John Wills Lloyd, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, UVA School of Ed & HD
Founder and editor, https://specialeducationtoday.com/
Co-editor, Exceptional Children

SET is not associated with the Council for Exceptional Children.

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