October 11, 2024 | Vol 20 Issue # 41

Hi NASET Week in,!


Welcome to NASET's WEEK in REVIEWHere, we provide you with the latest publications from NASET to read and or download, as well as some of the most interesting articles that have happened this week in the field of special education. We hope you enjoy this publication.

Feel free to send us articles for this publication or let us know your thoughts about the WEEK in REVIEW at news@naset.org.


Have a great weekend!

Top Stories of the Week


The Top K-12 Conferences to Attend in 2025

 

Brain Activity Syncs Differently in Autism and Neurotypical Interactions

 

Study Finds COVID Harmed Cognitive Skills of Students — and Teachers


How Do Today’s High Schoolers Fare as They Enter Adulthood? View the Data

 

How Should High School Change? These Districts May Have the Answer

 

Could ADHD Actually Be a Superpower for Some Athletes?

 

AI Can Free Up Time for Principals to Engage with Staff and Students

 

Study Bolsters Evidence that Autism Runs in Families

 

Dozens of People with Disabilities Set Sail for First Time at Sacramento Deep Water Channel

 

Michigan’s Vulnerable Students Continue to Miss School at Higher Rates than Their Peers

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NASET’s Autism Spectrum Disorder Series

 

Social Skills Progress Monitoring for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder:

A Practitioner’s Resource

 

By

Nargiza Buranova, Ph.D.

Shannon Locke, MS, CCC-SLP

Janine Stichter, Ph.D.

 

University of Missouri

This issue of NASET’s Autism Spectrum Disorder Series was written by Nargiza Buranova, Ph.D., Shannon Locke, MS, CCC-SLP, and Janine Stichter, Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. Social competency is an area of skill development that is difficult to assess clearly or consistently, particularly for students with average or above cognitive abilities including students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Few tools are available to educators that provide the necessary sensitivity to performance useful for progress monitoring. Progress monitoring is a necessary component required to fully execute multitiered systems of support (MTSS; Utley & Obiakor, 2015) and to evaluate the effectiveness of ongoing instruction. However, there are few defensible, appropriate, or usable measures for educators to assess social competence repeatedly to demonstrate incremental progress (Brann et al., 2022; Briesch et al., 2020). The focus of this issue of NASET’s Autism Spectrum Disorder Series is to describe how practitioners can model and use strategies individualized to their students, to systematically guide and regularly monitor student progress through direct observation and engagement across multiple skills of social competence (conversational reciprocity, affect recognition, recognizing and demonstrating emotional states, and social problem solving).

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Trivia Question of the Week

Congratulations to

Lauro Esquilona III, Ellen Kay, Autumn Matthews, Karen Frantz-Fry, Tracey Christilles, Laurine Kennedy, Patsy Ray, Bonnie Baldwin, Debbie Alford, and Jane Tilleman who all knew the answer to last week's trivia question:


According to recent research in the field of neurodevelopmental disorders (from Vancouver, British Columbia), this element deficiency has been shown to be linked to restless sleep in individuals with ADHD and autism. The deficiency in this element is also an essential component for both the synthesis of neurotransmitters that regulate the sleep/wake cycle, as well as the dopamine synthesis pathway. What element deficiency has recently been shown to be linked to restless sleep in individuals ADHD and autism?


Answer: IRON

This Week's Trivia Question: 


Nassau County, NY will soon be home to the nation’s only museum dedicated to this specific history. The museum will be housed in The Viscardi Center and is set to open in Fall 2025. Nassau County Executive, Bruce Blakeman, announced that the county is making a significant investment in the museum. What will be the area of focus of this museum’s specific history, the nation’s only museum dedicated to this specific history?



If you know the answer to this week's trivia questions, email it to us at contactus@naset.org by October 15, 2024. If you are correct, you will be acknowledged in next week's NASET's Week in Review

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Responding to Post-Pandemic Norms, More States are Lowering Test Standards

 

To Curb Chronic Absenteeism, NYC Schools Embrace Data and Peer Connections

 

Closing Struggling Schools Helped Student Achievement in Denver, study finds


Study Finds COVID Harmed Cognitive Skills of Students — and Teachers

 

U.S. ‘Catastrophically Wrong’ to Separate Early Child Care from Education

 

Senate Punts on Autism Act

 

Digital Games Show Promise for Improving ADHD and Depression in Youth, but Anxiety Remains a Challenge

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Food for Thought

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Dale Carnegie

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