Category: Blog Posts

The Importance of Teaching Life Skills in Special Education

  Achieving independence is one of the cornerstones of our existence and teaching life skills that promote this individuality should be an integral part of the special education system, not an afterthought.   One of the most important jobs parents and caretakers face when raising children is to teach them how to become independent adults…
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Teacher Feature – How Kafia Yousof at Prior Weston Plans to Use FrenalyticsEDU

Our new Teacher Feature series highlights how special education teachers have adapted their classroom during the pandemic and how they have each uniquely implemented FrenalyticsEDU into their classroom. This edition features Kafia, a primary school teacher at Prior Weston Primary in London, England, who will begin using FrenalyticsEDU this fall.   Kafia Yousof is a…
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Celebrities and Special Education: A Glance into the Relevance of Special Education in Modern Society

This week’s blog, Celebrities and Special Education, shares insight into how our society is positively impacted by those in the special education sphere and provides evidence against the notion that those involved in special education are somehow disconnected from the rest of society. Take a read:

Teacher Feature – How Jen Gentile at Escondido High School Uses FrenalyticsEDU

Our new Teacher Feature series highlights how special education teachers have adapted their classroom during the pandemic and how they have each uniquely implemented Frenalytics into their classroom. This edition features Jen, a high school special education teacher at Escondido High School in Escondido, CA:

Teacher Feature – How Michaela Duranti at Quad Prep Uses FrenalyticsEDU

Our new Teacher Feature series highlights how special education teachers have adapted their classroom during the pandemic and how they have each uniquely implemented Frenalytics into their classroom. This edition features Michaela, a sixth grade special education teacher at Quad Prep in New York, NY:

Signs It’s Time for Assisted Living – And How to Start the Conversation

  We all hope our loved ones will be able to take care of themselves indefinitely. However, that simply isn’t possible for every senior. As we get older, our cognitive function tends to decline. Since this doesn’t happen at a consistent rate, it’s difficult to predict when — if ever — a senior adult will…
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Being a better advocate and ally to people with disabilities

The experiences of people with disabilities are unique to each individual and each person may feel differently about certain topics regarding allyship. The goal of this blog is to provide a general guide to enhance your allyship and advocacy for people with disabilities.   Be aware of your words Each of us has a responsibility…
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Frenalytics | 2021 Q1 Progress Report

Happy Spring! With summer only 55 days away (who’s counting?), it’s time for a check-in from the Frenalytics team.   This time last year, we wrote about how our patented web app provides individualized therapy tools for patients suffering from stroke, dementia, and TBI. Among the litany of unthinkable consequences arising from a worldwide pandemic,…
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Returning To the Classroom Calls for Shifts in Routines: How to Best Support Your Child with Autism During this Time of Change

Transitioning back to the classroom will certainly not be without challenges. The rapid shift to remote learning last year brought on extreme stress and transition anxiety for students, parents, and teachers. Now a year later we are facing another tense transition period, just reversed. Special education students, particularly students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), often…
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How analytics can revolutionize the IEP and special education

  Individualized Education Programs The Individualized Education Program (IEP) was introduced in 1975. Since then it has been used to improve learning for students with disabilities across the United States. The IEP is a very important component of learning for students with disabilities, parents, and their teachers. Under the law, the IEP ensures that students…
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